
The artistic journey of artist ShawNShawN is one that has been molded by travel, culture and class systems. “My journey started with traveling at a young age. We moved from city to city, state to state and finally country to country. Traveling all over Europe and the US leaves a mark of a self-made gypsy, always moving and reacting to the local scenes I find myself in, recreating my self to various classes, cultures and states. In high school I lived in some dangerous neighborhoods that led to a cynicism of police and justice as I witnessed rich neighborhoods constantly cared for while in poorer neighborhoods the citizens were the enemy similar to what is happening right now in Fergusen, Missouri.”
In 2000, ShawN returned to the US and settled in California. “I decided to move to California to ride the Dot Com rush in 2000. Here I saw the collapse of dotcoms over night and the panic of workers as their wealth evaporated overnight. This truly was a place of dreams and broken dreams.”
Original article: ArtCrasher.com