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Bilinear
9 x 7"
book vandalism
Marius Black
2013

I sure love creating book vandalisms and human anatomy figures. I also love making them explode like meat Popsicle and flowers petals alike. I actually came up or discovered book vandalism or add art at a very low point of my life.

After my call center job I got work as a gallery curator at a diner with live music and band performances every Saturday night. We had a somewhat close as you can be to a gallery there and there where a lot of blank walls so I made that problem go away in no time. They also made me the marketing assistant, which is fine and good but really it's not a job for an artist. I learned a lot of stuff while I was working there but my salary never really went up even once and I never did enjoy the pressure of gathering up an audience every week for a reggae night. I mean no offense to reggae music enthusiasts, but we did it weekly that it was tiring even for me.

 So it was again another job where I felt I wasn't doing my life purpose and my full art potential. I wasn't even given the best care and respect I knew I deserved. But amidst all of that negativity and depression I manage to make something out of that. One night since we didn't have any customers, I wanted to draw but I didn't have my sketchpad on me let alone any more money to but new supplies. Luckily I have art books with me from the art class I teach at Saturday mornings at the diner. So I decided I'd just draw on them instead, I had no canvas so I just went for it there instead for going home and painting, I didn't have that alone time anymore now that I have work this job. And so I jumped off and started drawing, and soon I found another style! It was book vandalism. And here they are in front of you.  

This is one of the few artworks I did for my first series of book vandals. I have kept them and made them all and also made more since. I love this style and will keep doing more of them in the future. 

In this specific piece I was able to add some hair and exploding muscles on the sketch Michelangelo provided. I don't think it was his intention that other people might be doing this to his works but if he did see them, these artworks I've done. I think he'd be pleased somewhat. After all, it's better to do these book vandalism on books instead of defiling the real artworks. But who knows maybe that's art too.