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Mark Gonzales is known for making some of the most influential moves ever tracked, both on a skateboard and in the world of contemporary art. A street skating legend and art world icon, his creative interests have co-existed unrestrained for the past 20 years.
The Gonz is constantly creating—on and off the board. Once I witnessed him skate right up to a rolling rack, ollie onto it, ride the rolling rack, then kickflip off it without skipping a beat. (And that’s just some normal, every day riding shit.) He is an original thinker with a vast past of accomplishments, spanning paintings, drawings, sculpture, film, creative writing, and beyond.—Joey Garfield
“You asked how I would like the future to be. Like anybody else I’d like to see harmony, and see people move and operate in a way that is more efficient. We are getting to the point now where we’re running out of natural resources. Global warming is small compared to not having natural resources.
The future I’d want is more investigation. We need to know how to measure things. Like when you are in the train and it feels like you aren’t going anywhere—but you’re moving—we need to figure that out. And is there are people who say they dies but are right back into a different body, we need to investigate that. We need concrete evidence of things.”—Mark Gonzales
Excerpt from an interview by Joey Garfield, Juxtapoz #76, May 2007.
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