I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.
I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.
The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.
There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].
It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.
