In May 2006, I went to a venue called the "il corral," in Los Angeles, an experimental music lab,
studio and performance space. I met christie (polychrome), an artist/musician, and her partner Stane.
In this space they explore and develop music called "noise music." Because the lab shares
the same space as christie's living quarters you can imagine the graffiti, sticker and flyer activity
her bathroom gets, it's definitely a unique environment.
I have a long and endearing relationship with my bathroom," christie says, She tends to it as if it were
a garden; she regularly prunes it, weeding out the negative comments and preserving the words
and images she holds dear. "As an underground medium of self-expression it's one of the most
psychically charged environments," she says. As a response to a show at il corral, someone wrote
on the bathroom wall: "Noise is Imagination without Skill." This prompted the response:
"Imagination is a Skill," which moved christie to write: "Imagination is Total Freedom."
christie enjoys the little characters that people draw on the walls, left behind like momentos
in a scrap book. She says, "However art might manifest it's fundamentally human to make art,
or sound art. Human beings have an innate need to create." She loves the idea that she can
cultiavte the dialogue in her private, public space and allow an individual to affect another through
an expression, thought or poem. The words and images crawl across the wall intertwined
with the spirit of this Dadaesque environ. "Art doesn't have any purpose other than itself,"
christie suggests, "and it exists outside of society aspiring to be something that can truly mirror it."
Spoken with all the freedom of an artistic warrior. As I left the il corral I considered myself to have
bumped into a like-minded soul, I know I will return later to see how christie's graffiti garden has grown.
studio and performance space. I met christie (polychrome), an artist/musician, and her partner Stane.
In this space they explore and develop music called "noise music." Because the lab shares
the same space as christie's living quarters you can imagine the graffiti, sticker and flyer activity
her bathroom gets, it's definitely a unique environment.
I have a long and endearing relationship with my bathroom," christie says, She tends to it as if it were
a garden; she regularly prunes it, weeding out the negative comments and preserving the words
and images she holds dear. "As an underground medium of self-expression it's one of the most
psychically charged environments," she says. As a response to a show at il corral, someone wrote
on the bathroom wall: "Noise is Imagination without Skill." This prompted the response:
"Imagination is a Skill," which moved christie to write: "Imagination is Total Freedom."
christie enjoys the little characters that people draw on the walls, left behind like momentos
in a scrap book. She says, "However art might manifest it's fundamentally human to make art,
or sound art. Human beings have an innate need to create." She loves the idea that she can
cultiavte the dialogue in her private, public space and allow an individual to affect another through
an expression, thought or poem. The words and images crawl across the wall intertwined
with the spirit of this Dadaesque environ. "Art doesn't have any purpose other than itself,"
christie suggests, "and it exists outside of society aspiring to be something that can truly mirror it."
Spoken with all the freedom of an artistic warrior. As I left the il corral I considered myself to have
bumped into a like-minded soul, I know I will return later to see how christie's graffiti garden has grown.
MARK FEREM'S
interview with christie scott
BATHROOM GRAFFITI
interview with christie scott
BATHROOM GRAFFITI
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