DSTRBO 1999

Sketch for a DSTRBO graffiti piece I never painted. I did the original drawing on a long drive down the west coast to LA from Vancouver sitting in the back of a van with two friends in late summer 1999. We were on tour doing live painting with some bands. We traveled all over Canada and the States for three months in that van, and there was a lot of time to sit in the back seat and doodle away. It was one of the first times I can remember that I could totally relax for full days with nothing to do but draw, without the background radiation of anxiety that I should be doing something else. This current moment reminds me a lot of that feeling, So I decided to revisit this sketch, that I’ve always liked, and give it a bit of a 2020 update. Also, the recent announcement by the US Navy and mainstream media that UFOs are officially recognized as an unexplained phenomenon would have thrilled ’99 me, I was deeply interested in that stuff back then, as a lot of 90s kids were. I especially like the crop circle signature.