There has always been a deep connection between skaters and BMXers and the world of Art. In fact, I believe that skateboarding and BMX have served as an explosive outlet that has allowed urban, suburban and rural males to become free from the massively constraining environment of both the art world and the culture at large. On the one hand, suburban and rural culture squelches the arts and constrain creativity in ways that are unfathomable. Many of us who either grew up in suburban or rural environments with incredible artistic impulses gravitated towards BMX and Skating (as well as Snowboarding and other alternative sports) as a way of satisfying the artist impulses that the dull culture of our home town or sub-division could not satiate. On the other hand urban environments have constrained art in ways that do not allow men to use their God-Given physical abilities to express themselves. Many of us who grew up wanting to express ourselves in masculine ways as artists found a neutered art world that was so fey that we could not find a way of expressing ourselves without getting our buts kicked by our peers. However, with the advent of street skating and BMX, that changed. Today, their are hundreds of young men who are finding ways of expressing themselves artistically both on canvas and on the landscape of the streets that they live. BMX and skating has allowed much of this to happen by providing an avenue where male artistic expression in not squelched by rural and suburban banality or urban sissy-fication.
