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I Hope the Dogs Don't Bark Tonight, It Always Reminds Me of Mine or I Am an Optimist Because of Intelligence but a Pessimist Because of Will

I Hope the Dogs Don't Bark Tonight, It Always Reminds Me of Mine or I Am an Optimist Because of Intelligence but a Pessimist Because of Will

Paint marker on paper, artist tape, graphite, whiskey barrel, latex paint

Dimensions variable

2019

The Dawgs Are Coming

Proposal for A Mad Man Tells The Truth

Digital rendering of painted sign

Variable

2018

Proposal for wall located near Crenshaw Blvd and 48th St in the Leimert Park area. The text "Good things are coming" borrows from signage about the developing train system and redeveloping Leimert Park area.

060408629

Embroidery on denim

40 x 48 inches

2018

59380519

Embroidery on denim

31 x 34

2018

You Are Here to Take My Place

You Are Here to Take My Place

Manipulated light jet prints

24 x 20 inches each

2018

detail of custom medallion from You Are Here to Take My Place
Maybe I'll Forgive You, Maybe You'll Try Or Knuck If You Buck (A-Z, 1-21)

Maybe I'll Forgive You, Maybe You'll Try Or Knuck If You Buck (A-Z, 1-21)

Manipulated light jet prints

14 x 10 inches each

2018

The text on the photos with a yellow background are appropriated from Carl Steadman's alphabetical beginners guide to Lacanian theory, Kid A in Alphabet Land. The dark images are screen shots done at every 21st frame of a street fight video.

Detail of E, F, M and N.

Detail of 11, 12, 17 and 18.

The Wish Before The Wind

All Those Moments Will Be Lost in Time

Digital photograph

21 x 18 inches

2018

7000 Is Only The Beginning (1 of 27)

Military wool blanket, 260 dandelion seeds, aluminum grommets

32 x 44 inches

2018

The grid is machine sewn on three sides of each square leaving the top open. This technique creates a pocket, one dandelion seed is placed into each of the 260 squares. This is one of the 27 pieces to complete 7000 dandelion seeds sown.

I Don't Know How to Disappear

VHS Video

6 minute

2018


video snippet

Your Gentle Wings Abide

Video collage

21minutes 11seconds

2018

Created with both found and produced video over the audio of Beethoven's 9th Symphony- Movement IV.


video snippet

Gotta Get My Weight Up or I Bend But Won't Break
Column (Cadillac Black)

Found safe, automotive enamel paint

18 x 55 x 22 inches

2018

Found safe painted automotive Cadillac Black Diamond
amen; let me take you where you have to go.
open your mouth and remove all doubt.
the greatly beloved must die.
amen; let me take you where you have to go.
open your mouth and remove all doubt.
the greatly beloved must die.

Video installation, 111 minutes

91 x 66 x 11.5 inches

2017
video snippet
In Wounds, We Live Our Unfinished Adventures
In Wounds, We Live Our Unfinished Adventures

Safe, vinyl, latex paint, work lights, pedestal, manipulated

Dimensions Variable

2017

The installation was located in Inglewood, CA across the street of the Inglewood Court House, behind the Inglewood Police Station and in-between the Inglewood County building and the Probation and Parole Office.
video documentation
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO OL' BOY
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO OL' BOY

Wood, stucco, security door, security window bars, roof shingles, sound and video

10 x 5 x 10 feet

2016
video documentation
taktobastono
taktobastono

Solid steel, doily, folding card table

33.5 x 33.5 x 28 inches

2016
Hoover Hand Movie
Hoover Hand Movie

digital video

2min 31sec

2016


full video
Reflecting Surface
Reflecting Surface

Oil paint on cotton fleece

96 x 48 inches

2016
I Want Everyone To Know That I Want You For Myself And/Or Playas Do What They Want To, Suckas Do What They Can

Silicone, wood, plaque

2018

Edition of 6 +2AP
freddy villalobos 













I Hope the Dogs Don't Bark Tonight, It Always Reminds Me of Mine or I Am an Optimist Because of Intelligence but a Pessimist Because of Will

I Hope the Dogs Don't Bark Tonight, It Always Reminds Me of Mine or I Am an Optimist Because of Intelligence but a Pessimist Because of Will

Paint marker on paper, artist tape, graphite, whiskey barrel, latex paint

Dimensions variable

2019

The Dawgs Are Coming

Proposal for A Mad Man Tells The Truth

Digital rendering of painted sign

Variable

2018

Proposal for wall located near Crenshaw Blvd and 48th St in the Leimert Park area. The text "Good things are coming" borrows from signage about the developing train system and redeveloping Leimert Park area.

060408629

Embroidery on denim

40 x 48 inches

2018

59380519

Embroidery on denim

31 x 34

2018

You Are Here to Take My Place

You Are Here to Take My Place

Manipulated light jet prints

24 x 20 inches each

2018

detail of custom medallion from You Are Here to Take My Place
Maybe I'll Forgive You, Maybe You'll Try Or Knuck If You Buck (A-Z, 1-21)

Maybe I'll Forgive You, Maybe You'll Try Or Knuck If You Buck (A-Z, 1-21)

Manipulated light jet prints

14 x 10 inches each

2018

The text on the photos with a yellow background are appropriated from Carl Steadman's alphabetical beginners guide to Lacanian theory, Kid A in Alphabet Land. The dark images are screen shots done at every 21st frame of a street fight video.

Detail of E, F, M and N.

Detail of 11, 12, 17 and 18.

The Wish Before The Wind

All Those Moments Will Be Lost in Time

Digital photograph

21 x 18 inches

2018

7000 Is Only The Beginning (1 of 27)

Military wool blanket, 260 dandelion seeds, aluminum grommets

32 x 44 inches

2018

The grid is machine sewn on three sides of each square leaving the top open. This technique creates a pocket, one dandelion seed is placed into each of the 260 squares. This is one of the 27 pieces to complete 7000 dandelion seeds sown.

I Don't Know How to Disappear

VHS Video

6 minute

2018


video snippet

Your Gentle Wings Abide

Video collage

21minutes 11seconds

2018

Created with both found and produced video over the audio of Beethoven's 9th Symphony- Movement IV.


video snippet

Gotta Get My Weight Up or I Bend But Won't Break
Column (Cadillac Black)

Found safe, automotive enamel paint

18 x 55 x 22 inches

2018

Found safe painted automotive Cadillac Black Diamond
amen; let me take you where you have to go.
open your mouth and remove all doubt.
the greatly beloved must die.
amen; let me take you where you have to go.
open your mouth and remove all doubt.
the greatly beloved must die.

Video installation, 111 minutes

91 x 66 x 11.5 inches

2017
video snippet
In Wounds, We Live Our Unfinished Adventures
In Wounds, We Live Our Unfinished Adventures

Safe, vinyl, latex paint, work lights, pedestal, manipulated

Dimensions Variable

2017

The installation was located in Inglewood, CA across the street of the Inglewood Court House, behind the Inglewood Police Station and in-between the Inglewood County building and the Probation and Parole Office.
video documentation
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO OL' BOY
AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO OL' BOY

Wood, stucco, security door, security window bars, roof shingles, sound and video

10 x 5 x 10 feet

2016
video documentation
taktobastono
taktobastono

Solid steel, doily, folding card table

33.5 x 33.5 x 28 inches

2016
Hoover Hand Movie
Hoover Hand Movie

digital video

2min 31sec

2016


full video
Reflecting Surface
Reflecting Surface

Oil paint on cotton fleece

96 x 48 inches

2016
I Want Everyone To Know That I Want You For Myself And/Or Playas Do What They Want To, Suckas Do What They Can

Silicone, wood, plaque

2018

Edition of 6 +2AP