Alias Arts

As we enter the final day of 2008, Sara and I want to wish all of you a very happy and healthy New Year.

For Sara and I, the “mission” of the website has never changed. The site has only one purpose:

To share with our friends those things that inspire us.

So as we end the year, we want to thank all of the artists and art lovers who have sent us incredible images over the last twelve months. On behalf of not only us, but also all of the readers of this blog, we can’t thank you enough.

Here’s to a wonderfully creative 2008 and what will surely be an incredibly inspiring 2009!

Warm Regards,

Marc, Sara (and of course Samantha and Hudson)

Artist: Mundano

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

From cirka:

“I’ve been thinking a lot about public information vs. private information and why it’s so fascinating to read about the mundane details of someone else’s private life (like finding their grocery list that they dropped in the parking lot, for example). So, I decided to reverse this by choosing “declassify” some of my own personal documents: letters that, at a different time in my life, I would have been mortified for anyone else to see. All are letters that were written to me (except for one, which shows a short email correspondence). They span from a letter written by my pen pal when I was about 10 to a letter that I received last summer. I silk-screened all the letters in the original color that they were written in. The only things that I altered were the names of people mentioned in the letters, which I censored in black ink.”

Artist: Mobster

Age: 38
Hometown: Fairfax VA
Where do you now live?: Washington DC
Where would you most like to live?: Canary Islands
Who was your first “hero” in life?: Speed Racer
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: I quit my day job
What is your favorite color?: Clear
Who (or what) do you love?: Anything with alcohol in it (including people)

Wooster: Who and/or what are some of your influences?

Classical music this week, natural landscapes, watching animals–especially albinos

Wooster: What other artists do you most admire?

EvanRoth(fi5e), BLU, Jorge Rodriguez, Anthony Micallef, CON, Truth, TILT, Eric il Cane, Leon Reid, Brad Downey, Slinkachu, Judge Judy and dead, Juan Munoz

How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it? That it can be hard to identify as art

Wooster: What other talent would most like to have?

The ability to be 10 years younger

Wooster: What do you fear the most?

Dying in my sleep so that I miss the experience of it

Wooster: What is your greatest ambition?

Right now to write different words on the sidewalk with popcorn and watch the birds eat it, but they’re mostly south right now so I’m going to wait until spring.

You can see more of Mark’s work here.