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Bio
Keith Abaring Nicol was born in Santa Cruz, California on June 6, 1977
and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1996 to confront a fear of
crowds & automobiles.
"True wealth is not in having it all, it's in needing extremely little."
- Keith Nicol-2001
This Kid used to find cool stuff like colored insulated wire and scrap
wood near construction sites along his skate route to school and work.
After swooping, scavenger-style, on come-ups like wire and paint, he'd
hone his hand-skills busting tags and mini-pieces on the wood or
whatever was lying around. Later he'd bend up the wire into shapes like
faces, animals, cars, or maybe a bus if he were sitting on the bus.
People around him liked that and asked him to share the faces and stuff
he made with them. Barter was kind to him, so he abandoned the Man's
Payroll and worked harder, for free, 24/7. He knew he was Lucky to be
given the ability to effect change in a progressive way and be
compensated at subsistence level for it. He seized the opportunity to
retain the honor of discarded and forgotten things by collecting broken
appliance pieces, crushed tabletops, shelf-sides, non-biodegradable
styrofoam, front doors, kitchen sinks, bottles, etc. and making use of
them as supports for drawings, paintings, etchings, etc. He used some
debris to make homemade markers and came upon pens, paper, ink, bucket
paint, spray cans, and aerosol-solvents constantly.
"Better this stuff be styling some wall than blowing up your babies'
landfills anyway, dontcha think?" He breathes, thankful to feel
necessary. Recycling is good because it retains a little environmental
freshness for the unborn homies upon whom we bestow this inherited land.
Peace, Love and Respect the Holy Retainers...
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