I'm not only a painter. I happen to have fallen hopelessly in love with hip hop at a very young age. I think my first documented headspin was at 5 or 6. Notably, we tend to think that a lot of 5 year olds are pretty incapable individuals. When in fact, I wish I still had that energy store in me.



Subsequently, being a 5'9" mexican doesn't make things easy. Whether it was graffiti, or rapping, working with beats and djing, or bboying in my younger ages (before medical shit) this culture has shown me it is primarily about conflict. Someone makes a song about something worth a damn to talk about and the majority of constituents in the hierarchy of hip hop and their disciples get to ask it the question "BUT WHERE YAH HAWRT AT, YO?"



What criteria constitutes the having of "HEART"? Determination in the face of adversity? Courage under immense odds? The want to go into conflict DESPITE knowing what a situation calls for?And the inquiry didn't become apparent until I began to think why, when important information needs to be distributed, stupid people get to filter it? Why ignorant fucks get to sit back and have a laugh at the expense of the question "Where's your heart at?" It's a completely facetious remark under the pretenses of my hypothesis. I've defined how, when, where, who, what, but not why.



Granted the world doesn't run on hip hop alone, neither do I. However, everyone is expressing the same thing about the basic premise: It defies logic. That it does not require the preconceived notions of a given moment to correctly calculate it's determination of what someone else's emotions should be. Basically: Dat shit is faaaaaaawking ILL-ogical my nucca! ...........Seriously. Would you let your computer process survival plans for it's hard drive by filing them under "Trash Bin"?



Placement. Its a question more of Placement. WHERE is your heart at. Not, where is your HEART at. That question is not about the location, but the location of location. lolIt's about placement. Thennnnnnnnnn.....where are all the Hearts at? On fire on bare chests, or on fire IN bare chests? What fuel is keeping it running?



I could take the "CRACKED" approach and simpy make fun of EVERYTHING. I just don't know what the future holds. And maybe I make myself that way (self manifestation) or maybe I react. Maybe I'm one of those dumb ignorant people laughed at for thinking the humanity emulates an ideal centered around control of the lives of others. Probably. Definitely. The more people you control, the more revered you are. But, I think it's dependent on what it is in your Heart. And if a warrior in any conflict asks you where's your at, you better be prepared to answer with something other than "My shit."



Survival seems to me to be, a bitch.