Ciao Bella, Ciao Bello: Mark Gonzales x Retrosuperfuture

How is your fine art practice and process similar and/or different than it is to skating?

They are a lot the same I never know exactly whats going too happen the distance is with actual fine art are so I think im trying for something profound , and ends up hurting the creation.

There’s a tone shift from the first collaboration, what inspired the color and text choices in this collaboration?

I think with the first one I was into doing paper cut out for the color , n it was something I had just tried for that moment but did not really go further with it it was fun too do I have the stuff that was not used laying around n look at it from time to time im talking about the art on the box. 

How would you describe your personal style?

Always changing but some how always regognizible.

When you are making art, what inspires you?

My wife gives me the motivation and inspiration.

What grounds you?

Reality.

Do you have any rituals you do around the studio?

Hoping to get a few non so far maybe something with the brushes cause they get damaged quik.

What is the most exciting and inspiring thing you’ve heard recently? Seen? Smelled? 

Dinner is ready.

What kind of music have you been listening to?

French lounge jazz romantic enzo enzo.

How do you feel like these glasses embody you and your creative ethos?

They are flashy when its a sunny day the blue makes me think of being on a movie set are something.

Has your creative vision and perspective shifted over the last few years? How so? 

I don’t get upset if an art work is going the wrong way I use too get really disappointed.