Playtime #2From the Artist This print, like Playtime #1, is a response to the then ever increasing drug trafficking and criminal activity that was happening in my neighborhood in the late 1980s and early '90s, mostly involving crack cocaine. Playtime #2refers to the intense changes that occurred in what used to be very common neighborhood activitieshow people in the neighborhood who used to enjoy just sitting on their front porches went indoors and kept indoors

I feel an uncomfortable sense of mystery in these spaces even though I created these pictures

then at some point it will go away in favor of a new image

chaotic black lines suggest figures in an earth-colored box with a black triangle symbolizing a house

when Toshio Sasaki arrived in the United States

It is about space

After studying Film and Animation in college

Driskell’s command of color and line and attentiveness to “the symbolic presence of form” are showcased in his beloved subjects

—Excerpted from Dumb Hope: My Curious Life

the print work continues to connect to my high technology interest with more traditional ideas

accessed on 7-6-2021e

contrast with where he lives now

Through his process