Shepard Faireyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Shepard FaireyInstagram)「I sat down with Alex Pope from @StraatMuseum while I was in Amsterdam for my show Printed Matters: Raise the Level which is up until October 15th. @JuxtapozMag has the full interview available in the link in bio, here’s an excerpt from the conversation: Alex Pope: A lot has been said about your meteoric rise from underground artists to household name, if you will. A lot of terrible takes as well, like you once said - and I love this quote - "People like to talk shit but it's usually to justify their own apathy." Still, it's got to be somewhat weird for yourself to have achieved major art success with counterculture artworks. How does Shepard Fairey himself experience this? Shepard Fairey: I see my career as a slow and steady evolution and progression while maintaining the principles I've had more or less since I was a teenager. But understanding that as my career evolves, my audience broadens and I can't remain an underground secret, really it's my work, not me, that I'm hoping that people experience and look into, look for answers to why I'm doing what I do, look for other examples of the work and understand that what I'm doing is an ever expanding mosaic of works that largely have similar themes and there's a cumulative effect to the body of work, a cumulative impact hopefully. I've worked steadily for over 30 years to achieve what I have as an artist with my fine art career, with my murals, with my clothing line, with my notoriety for projects I've done for social and political causes, and it’s motivated by my belief in art as a tool of empowerment and justice, not by the pursuit of fame or fortune for me.」9月25日 1時01分