1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:21,210 2 00:00:21,230 --> 00:00:30,290 RASHID JOHNSON: Angel is a friend of mine. We met uh, a few years back after I graduated from the School of the Art Institute in the grad program. 3 00:00:30,310 --> 00:00:36,310 He was I think the grad class after mine. He’s a painter and a sculptor. 4 00:00:36,330 --> 00:00:47,310 You know we talk about art and life and he’s doing quite well now with his work and so we’ve been talking recently about trying to trade a work. 5 00:00:47,330 --> 00:01:05,420 Sometimes it can be difficult to actually you know finish the deal. I’m sure he’s got you know the dealers kind of kicking down his door like what do you have available to us and so, you know.... 6 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:11,600 It becomes kind of a sacrifice to like give it to your friends, you know? 7 00:01:11,620 --> 00:01:23,960 8 00:01:23,980 --> 00:01:26,150 What's up? 9 00:01:26,170 --> 00:01:28,610 ANGEL OTORO: Word, man. 10 00:01:28,630 --> 00:01:31,160 RASHID: This is the crew. 11 00:01:31,180 --> 00:01:32,340 Hey, I'm Angel. 12 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:33,560 OFF-CAMERA: Thanks for letting us in. 13 00:01:33,580 --> 00:01:36,740 ANGEL: No problem, man. More than welcome. 14 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,920 RASHID: We’re here to see your wares. 15 00:01:39,940 --> 00:01:43,110 16 00:01:43,130 --> 00:01:46,300 RASHID: It looks good. 17 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:49,490 18 00:01:49,510 --> 00:01:52,710 So is this how it comes up? 19 00:01:52,730 --> 00:01:55,880 ANGEL: ... I’m scrapping this new one but then you see it’s not drying. 20 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:59,070 RASHID: How long does it take them to dry? 21 00:01:59,090 --> 00:02:08,230 ANGEL: This is a new pigment, this is like a hard core, high pigment oil paint so it’s like, yeah like strong, strong stuff. 22 00:02:08,250 --> 00:02:11,230 But the thing is the more pigment, the.... 23 00:02:11,250 --> 00:02:13,410 RASHID: The harder it is to dry. Yeah. 24 00:02:13,430 --> 00:02:17,410 ANGEL: So it’s kind of tricky. 25 00:02:17,430 --> 00:02:20,510 RASHID: I like the text pieces too, man. 26 00:02:20,530 --> 00:02:25,900 27 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:27,920 RASHID: Yeah, how’d you get here? 28 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:34,480 29 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,680 RASHID: Yeah. And how do you get the thickness? Just tons of oil paint? 30 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:42,700 ANGEL: Just tons of oil paint man. And after a month or something I try and scrape them out slowly slowly, like inch by inch. 31 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:49,710 RASHID: I mean it’s interesting because it’s like very much kind of attached to the canvas but it’s not like a slave to the canvas. 32 00:02:49,730 --> 00:02:50,910 ANGEL: Yeah. 33 00:02:50,930 --> 00:02:54,920 RASHID: Like it’s lounging on it. Like it’s pimping the canvas. 34 00:02:54,940 --> 00:02:56,140 ANGEL: That’s true, though. 35 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,350 RASHID: Yeah, I dig that. 36 00:02:59,370 --> 00:03:01,530 37 00:03:01,550 --> 00:03:07,730 RASHID: I got the wood pieces. Which are...I’m actually making one right now in the studio. That...this one doesn’t have a home. 38 00:03:07,750 --> 00:03:09,910 ANGEL: Like with a weird shape? 39 00:03:09,930 --> 00:03:18,090 RASHID: Yeah, it’s funky. It’s funky, dude. But like that would actually be like a good one. You know what I mean? Yeah, man. 40 00:03:18,110 --> 00:03:24,090 41 00:03:24,110 --> 00:03:26,310 RASHID: Maybe like something like that for me? 42 00:03:26,330 --> 00:03:28,500 43 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,500 ANGEL: What size is that wood piece you got over there? 44 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:33,680 RASHID: It’s like maybe.... 45 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:38,680 46 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:41,680 RASHID: It’s like this. Like a...I’d say like four.... 47 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:43,680 ANGEL: Four by five. 48 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:46,230 RASHID: Like...yeah. 49 00:03:46,250 --> 00:03:47,440 50 00:03:47,460 --> 00:03:52,650 RASHID: Like you could fit it. . . Can I touch it a little bit? 51 00:03:52,670 --> 00:04:02,760 52 00:04:02,780 --> 00:04:07,790 ANGEL: I wish I had more stuff man, to show you. 53 00:04:07,810 --> 00:04:23,790 RASHID: It’s good, you know you want to have the pieces of your friends. I mean it marks a time in your own history, who you were with, what were you doing, and you know my wife is pregnant and my kid can grow up around really great art objects, other than mine. (LAUGHS) 54 00:04:23,810 --> 00:04:37,800 I think it’ll be...it’ll be a good shaping experience to have you know...you know work by...by really you know good...good young artists around my....around my kid. 55 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:42,830 56 00:04:42,850 --> 00:04:50,020 I also feel confident that I maybe took a wrong turn and that I don’t know where the fuck I am. I don’t know Brooklyn so well. 57 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,240 Should I take Knickerbocker? 58 00:04:52,260 --> 00:04:54,440 OFF CAMERA: Yeah, it’ll cut up to Morgan. 59 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:57,878 RASHID: All right, cool.