Pattern

"I was invading public space with a mosaic of a small character whose role is to invade ... I had found my thing, like the great artists who found their style": Catherine Porter profiles French street artist Invader for The New York Times (soft paywall) this month, 2023. 

In 2013 Invader was the illustrator (see above) of my Kurt Cobain piece for Mythiq27, an art and literature project about the legendary "club" of artists who died aged 27, curated and edited by Jann Suty.

Previously graffiti and street art were central to my 2009 novel The Church of John Coltrane (Editions Christian Bourgois, translation by Isabelle Chapman). Jann's project tied it all together.