Go back far enough in time and you’ll hit the future. It’s that exact moment of impact DEFER captures. Simultaneously Paleolithic and extraterrestrial, his “spiritual language” lifts the sleep mask of reality and welcomes one into the land of the sacred and eternal. There’s a timelessness to it, like Mark Rothko, mixed with a little William Carlos Williams (The Red Wheelbarrow).
“The thing is, some of it has text in it, like typography,” DEFER said. “But then again, as a kid, I did graffiti. So, from that, you get ‘wildstyle,’ where you distort the letters, but they still retain the form. You contort the letters. You bend ’em. You swerve ’em. You loop ’em. You add arrows, crowns. You break ’em up… I basically wanted to take it beyond that,…
