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Portrait of Broke Cormier

Broke Cormier

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Portrait of The Obanoth

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Portrait of Ren Watabe

Ren Watabe

In Monarch Legacy of Monsters, his character is Kentaro, and his grandma's name is Miura. Doesn't it ring a bell?

Berserk (Japanese: ベルセルク) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura.

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“Love Minister”

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“Eating a blue Cherry”

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“Contemporary Art Makes Me Hard!”

It was a warm evening in Sydney when I walked down the street in Kings Cross looking for my temporary accommodation for the night. Somewhere between the sex shop and a pub, there is music coming from the direction of candle lights under a tree. Several youngsters in a circle, singing and playing guitars. I sat among them and asked them if they were French - it was the accent, not my pick up line - and they graded admitted. They sang me a song they wrote together half hour ago, about life in Australia. It was a blurry story of travelling by van through the outback, hitting a kangaroo and crushed the van.

We had a good time until the police came to make us quiet. We gave up the music and switched to chatting. One guy at his early 20s asking me: “tu fais quoi?”

Good question. It’s complicated, but I had nothing to loose by telling him the truth: “I’m an artist. I do contemporary art.” 

Immediately he had a tiny spark in his eyes: “I like contemporary art... Contemporary art makes me hard!” He frees his right arm from the beer bottle and gave me this ‘hard on’ gesture with his forearm folding rapidly towards his shoulder.

“That’s good, I’m glad it made you happy.” I was not sure what to reply as he might have understood the composition of the joint venture between “contemporary” and “art”.

He gave me a big innocent smile: “I don’t know art but I like it.” then added: “It’s COOL.”

I know, is it cool? I’m an artist and my job, is to keep you aroused.