Mark Gonzales Loves New York for the Visitors

Has that occurred?
No, but it surely’s New York Metropolis, so I am saying, .

You keep conscious.
It is all the time there. I like New York due to the site visitors. Each nook is a distinct scenario.

Bicycling in New York has change into extra built-in into the infrastructure of town. That hasn’t actually occurred in the identical manner for skateboarding. Have you ever been following what’s happening with Tompkins?
I believe skate boarders are fairly open to one another. If everyone’s getting alongside, then everyone’s like, Let’s shut this down, , let’s cease them. The entire level of skating is to flee being instructed what you’re, and as quickly as everybody realizes, Oh, wait, all these guys, they really all get alongside, then they are saying, Effectively, let’s cease it. That is what it looks like to me. I simply assume, like, you’ll be able to think about should you do not skateboard, you see everybody having an excellent time, you would be like, Let’s cease it! How can we cease this! That is simply human nature, .

Angela Owens

What does it imply so that you can have your work included on this present?
I really feel honored. I really feel honored to be part of it.

Your work is within the West Coast part of the present? Do you think about your self that? Is that West Coast–East Coast divide helpful anymore?
I imply, I just like the Jets. I just like the Lakers. I am not part of anyone factor, so it is exhausting to say I characterize this or I characterize that. There’s far more motion in New York. The West Coast, it was fairly exhausting to skate within the metropolis. You’d get in bother. After I was a child, you could not skate in downtown L.A. and go across the nook and or not it’s a distinct place. I believe the youth on the East Coast have much more freedom simply to be wherever they need to be.

Talking of freedom: You’re employed in a dozen totally different media: portray, drawing, sculpture, phrase artwork, spray paint, discovered objects. Is there one which retains your consideration?
Shifting round on the street, really. That is my favourite medium. Pencil, pen, marker, stickers, tape, you title it. No matter works. Toothpaste. It varies. Only in the near past I did these maps. That was from driving in my automobile, which has the navigation, so I began doing drawings of that, and that was enjoyable. I am able to be impressed by one thing new. I have been plugging away at doing artwork since perhaps after I was 19 or 20.