Chris Stain

So here’s that print I was workin’ on over the course of the week. It’s a train wreck of text , image, and color— but I like it. As you can see each print comes out a little different each time when you are mixing ink directly in the screen. These prints are 25″ H x 16″ W. The skin tone and text were done with the aid of spray painted stencils that i printed over top of.

I try at all times to keep the work on a personal. After all its all I got to work from if I wanna keep it honest. You can use your Honey Comb hideout secret decoder ring to decode the hidden message or just play the record backwards if you’d like.

Look for this at http://chrisstain.bigcartel.com/ soon.

I think I would like to start a little section on here to accompany my regular posts. Something that will explain where alot of my inspiration and heartache comes from. So here it is. I’ll call it…

Long Story Short

I recently recieved a letter ( yes a letter in an envelope) from my friend Chris who has been in prison for the past 13 years. To be honest Chris never had it all that great. So he did what he had to do with what he was dealt in life. At one point things went from bad to worse and he wound up with a life residency at the stone hotel. I have been writing to him for 10 of those 13 years. He passes his time drawing and tattooing. Despite appeals, new evidence, dna, and all that court stuff, his case hasn’t moved much in the shuffle of the 500 others that his public defender is shoveling through. Yet his optimism and hope are stronger than the bars that restrain him. Heres a few good lines he laid down recently that i’d like to share “Never sleep on the power of determination…” and “Obey the laws of patience.”

Thanks for reading this. Feel free to hit me up chrisstain@gmail.com

-Chris Stain

What’s Here

What’s What

What’s Happened

Elsewhere

Finished Print and…

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