INSIGHT magazine: Alchemy
The Scroll Series by SpazeCraft
The scroll series is about fragmented memory, displaced energy, and forgotten languages that all weave together through line, shape and color. The juxtaposition of hard lines, abstract shapes and delicate subliminal messages mix to produce an organic tension that rests at the edge of a flat world & in the swirl of a mysterious universe. In this series, I tell stories of battles between good and evil. I ask philosophical questions through metaphor and produce a new level of urban art with a nod to graffiti in my former youth. This an ode to calligraphy and symbology in its rawest form. A careful appreciation of the NY masters of abstraction and a penchant for finding a place, rather a home, within urban sprawl and displacement. The symbols in each piece represent my collective memory of different languages and typography from around the world. Each symbol is improvised and is a personal meditation that is channeled through me. I have the ability to define and decipher the meaning behind each symbol but I ask the viewer to participate in the work by feeling what it is they get from this intuitive language, symbology, form and vibration. I’ve been working on the Scroll series for over 10 years. I strive to push the work into unknown territory with each piece.
SpazeCraft reaches the hearts and minds of youth across all artistic disciplines. Through stop-motion animation, graffiti art illustration, book making or digital music production, his goal is always to open up new worlds for others. www. sohnup.com 32 | www.fokus.org