Paper Rad (how to draw like this‪)‬

In late 2009, Providence, Rhode Island Art collective Paper Radio was fully ensconced in safety and vision provided by the power and beauty of the free and flowing “genius” noise collages found within the flourishing European school of innovative and experimental drawing zines. These zines, much like jazz, rock 'n' roll, and rap started in the noisy back alleys of France, Belgium and Paris. It wasn’t long before America was able to reverse engineer these drawing styles and thus began to produce its own derivative version of this phenomena. Mat Brinkman owes the most to many of today's young European and French visionaries, and so as he struggles and learns to draw, Paper Radio too strives to someday produce a zine worthy of a small limited edition. But out of the blue and into the red comes our savior, Paper Rad (whose website will soon be up ((the site a response to today's daring internet artists))) and their new zine “Sexfucks”. Bad news, Sexfucks was lost due to an FTP error, but instead, what this quest-myth has lead us to, is a series of drawings from Ben’s grid paper pile. Scanned over a 1 hour period, and then saved onto a “hard-rom”, Jones presents the next attempt at a new drawing style (thin pencil lines drawn on smudgy velum or grid paper, using geometric shapes and simple figural forms to construct a formal pictorial dissection of contemporary art, life and humor), soon to be the next artistic statement seen on Justice T-Shirts and/or Art Collective’s large smelly big pieces of drawing paper. Oh wait, Powr Masters already did that. Hmmmm. Sorry. This is slightly different. It's more Yokoyama-ish. Ben Jones