We recently connected with Love Feels Best and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Love Feels Best thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My parents made two decision I have always felt greatly impacted my life advantageously.

Relocating to Southern California enabled me to place myself in situations that would enable me to meet people from all over the world.

Interesting people from far away lands often have insightful ideas and experiences I may have never learned about if I had grown up in a place with less diversity or more xenophobia.

Being here has granted me access to multiple slices of paradise. I can visit a waterfall and just listen to it and the creatures it helps to sustain. Everyone loves walks along the beach and the way watching the ocean can calm even the most stressed nerves.

I grew up in an area that was also a great place to learn about native Americans and their massive contributions to our sustenance. It was also an area with lots of interesting plants and animals to learn about. Being raised in the Conejo Valley likely contributed to my lifelong passion for learning about plants, animals and foreign cultures. Bunny Valley!

The second decision my parents made that I have been utterly grateful for since I was a boy was the choice to not raise me with any religious teachings. They had it forced upon them by their parents and did not enjoy it so they made a decision to not subject their children to such punishment. I feel like it’s always given me a great advantage and healthy curiosity. When the world is a great mystery, you have every reason to find delight in exploring it.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I got into painting when I was operating Lobal Orning, a record and book shop located in the beautiful Canyon of Topanga about 20 minutes north of Santa Monica.

Our shop was filled with inspiring visual art like paintings by Kevin Willis and Alex Grey. Being there awakened an overwhelming urge to share, insights I discovered studying behavioral sciences, using art and music. Ideas like, all humans are connected and have more reasons to work together than to fight.

Creating visual art has been a blossoming passion ever since. During lockdown and this past year I’ve really been focused on pushing myself to advance my skills. I’ve been painting and sculpting everyday and then exhibiting my artwork at the Hive Gallery on a regular basis. In 2024 I’ve exhibited more and had more people collect my art than ever before.

I’ve been selling stickers and shirts at Salzers Records (The Amoeba Records of Ventura County) and about 13 other shops from Malibu to SLC. Ive never had the time or resources to approach many more locations yet. Chasen a fashion boutique in Montecito sold out of our tank tops almost instantly.

I’ve been creating street art installations for about ten years now. Locals have referred to me as “Banksy of the 805” probably due to my prolific presence on the street rather than similarity of styles or concepts. The few times I’ve attended events in the Ventura area many people have told me that my street art has lifted their mood or brought a smile to their day. This is the most rewarding statement I can receive. It means the magic is real.

In about 2014 I began painting and leaving lost roadway cones on the side of the freeway in areas that are prone to gridlock within the Los Angeles Metroplex. People would take them and thank me using social media. I installed heart shaped signs along PCH urging us to remember we are happiest when we choose love. Lately I’ve been doing larger paste ups that seem to remain undisturbed for many months or years.

I’m honored to have been selected as one of the artists for the next Hive Gallery Tarot show which will result in my painting becoming a card in the next Hive Gallery Tarot deck.

I’m hoping to develop two broadcast series that glorify kindness and venerate compassion. One, an uplifting interview show that celebrates humanity. The other, an animated series that features characters designed and voiced by different artists.

I am eager to design spaces using insights from the field of environmental psych. Immersive art experiences that heal and bring people together or transport them to a magical sensational space that awakens our treasures hidden within is also a direction I’m hungry to experiment with.

I believe the future of education and entertainment will be dominated by games. According to my observations, games are probably our greatest method of education. They are also one of the best ways to bring people together to have fun and connect with their community.

I think there is tons of room for great advancements in this field. Group instruments, adventure puzzles and learning challenges are just the beginning.

I’d love to develop a video game I’m calling “Call of Beauty” or “Fortlight”. Designed like a FPS but the objective is to feed people, deliver humanitarian aid and rebuild war torn areas.

If we start playing games that make helping fun I believe data based evidence suggests it will diminish desires to have and use weapons.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

We vote primarily with our cash.

When we buy ai art from Michaels, Target or Walmart we are fighting, with the greatest power we have, to disempower and eliminate creativity and artists.

When you buy your coffee at Starbucks instead of Tree Lounge in Camarillo, which exhibits art and events by locals you are voting against community for a facelsss corporation that has actively worked against workers and your community to prevent fair pay.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

A life of love and gratitude is simply more fun and rewarding than the alternative. If people were granted access to the truth and exposed to the data based evidence I have been they’d adopt an approach to the world that minimizes damage to natural resources, flora and fauna.

Such a decision would also maximize delightful experiences an individual is likely to be exposed to.

Unfortunately we have all been born into systems in which very powerful systems of control work tirelessly every minute of every day to divide and disempower us using a variety of ugly manipulative strategies.

Question Everything

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.lovefeelsbest.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lovefeelsbest/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lovefeelsbest

Image Credits

Love Feels Best, Wolves, David Goldhagen, Dork, Mike Hunt, Biff Kennedy, Madonna Skakur