You frequently feature cigarettes in your drawings. What do cigarettes symbolize for you?
AS: Cigarettes for me symbolize anti-life. Man unlike any other animal knows it will one day die, to smoke is to consciously move closer to that inevitability. You know it will kill you and you continue with it. Addictive or not, it is still a self destructive and terribly romantic personal decision against life. I don't regularly smoke, but when I do have a cigarette I am very aware of my decision. On a simplistic level though, I like to take my subject matter from my everyday world and cigarette butts grow like grass in New York City.
AS: Cigarettes for me symbolize anti-life. Man unlike any other animal knows it will one day die, to smoke is to consciously move closer to that inevitability. You know it will kill you and you continue with it. Addictive or not, it is still a self destructive and terribly romantic personal decision against life. I don't regularly smoke, but when I do have a cigarette I am very aware of my decision. On a simplistic level though, I like to take my subject matter from my everyday world and cigarette butts grow like grass in New York City.
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