Hello, I am a very creative person since birth. Skate­boarding intro­duced me to art and design, which are an important part of the skate­boarding cul­ture. That in­spired me to try to make a living with my cre­ations. The early 2000s, I start­ed to use Flash, and that made me visible to an inter­national audi­ence. Now I have been doing this for 20 years and it feels like a dream.

Very simple, I work a lot. And many people tell me that I work like a robot, so it was easy :) The studio is an Imagi­nation Stu­dio, we deal with creativity in 360. We work for clients, we work with art schools, we work with museums, we create our own IPs. We try to inspire and spread cre­ativ­ity everywhere we go.

I love the diversity, I hate stag­na­tion. I need to try new things all the time, try to find new paths, new ways of doing things. I don't like repe­ti­tion, I like to explore. I love pro­jects that have ram­i­fi­ca­tions in dif­fer­ent me­dias, that can live on a screen, on a print, or on a piece of fur­ni­ture. Why should we limit ourselves?

Just closing my eyes. My brain is always in full speed, crush­ing out ideas. What helps the most is meditation. I meditate every­day for 30 minutes, I use the Vipassana technique, which is as simple as being present in the moment.

I had the greatest time in Milan during the Macro­media Flash days, those days were like incredible, everything coming up so fast, every­day there was some­thing new, someone had done something great. I met so many incred­ible people during those days, real giants in their crafts, the best in what they do. That inspired me to keep going and pushing.

After coming to Amsterdam, opening a store and a studio was like a dream come true. For sure WeareAiko (street­brand), Hanazuki and Yoshinami are the three pro­jects that are tuck in my heart forever.

Now with this NFT's rush, it feels a bit like the early web days, but on steroids, and I am having lots of fun again, and meeting all the OG's again.

It has been life changing in terms of cre­ativ­i­ty. Hic et Nunc is full of pas­sion­ate people, who do what they do for the love of it. I like places like this, driven first by passion and not money. I thrive in these sit­u­a­tions. I start­ed early thanks to James Paterson aka Presstube who I know since early Flash days. He told me to try it, I did and did not stop.

It is amazing cause there are no limi­ta­tions, every­one is creating what they want at their best level. Seeing this happening all the time every­day is in­spir­ing, stress­ing and makes you want to do your really best. Artists buying from other artists - a dream, what more do you want?