...but Aarons pieces struck my cranium like a 2 ton shell. They are a surreal and abstract mix of Indie, Industrial, Hip-hop, Techstep meets Voltron in a brand nameless era where faces don’t matter much…or so it seems. Graffiti meets Fashionclash with an eight-track player strapped to a faceless ear in the year 2030. He uproots robotic mega-stories about little vices that we create to make our lives more complex, yet pointless. His painting resemble television like abstractions that do not try as hard to perpetuate a false message, rather, let the audience reflect and form their own opinions. “I get my inspiration from watching people.” His glossy enameled art radiates with a supreme message of the summation of our time from the eyes of an outsider, an observer. Not just a rebellion, but a record for the archives of culture and life, not only in Southern California, but around the globe.

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