"John and I have been doing an ongoing series of collaboration paintings. In the past 2 years we've done 5 paintings together, and we've got more shit coming. I think we will paint together for a long time. We just let the painting develop naturally, so there wasn't much pre-planning on this one." - Van Saro
"This piece was the fourth or fifth collab that we did together. The themes varied but the composition stayed pretty consistent with Van’s beautifully painted figures anchoring my background colors and support characters. The quote provided by Van is from the Buddah. We had been staying pretty consistent with the compositions of our collabs, usually with one of Van’s oil figures left of center anchoring the piece while I handled the background color composition and added support characters. I don’t think we discussed anything before starting." - John Park
