Jean-Michel Basquiat / SAMO©
Jean-Michel was a huge inspiration not only through this iterative work but also throughout all of my work. An iterative process that you can see throughout Basquiat’s work is in his depiction of anatomy which is greatly influenced from when he was hit by a car at the age of 7 and was gifted the book Grays anatomy by his mother while in hospital. I love the contrast between chaos and serenity in his work as they also pose as political arguments.
Another form of iteration that can be seen in Basquiat’s work is when he went under the alias SAMO with his friend Al Diaz. Their Graffiti work posed as a poetic and critical outlook on politics and consumer society as a whole.
