"2018 was a really depressing time in my life. I could feel this sadness and negativity start to creep into my mind. It became harder and harder to create anything that wasn't negative. The works I would create during this time would be infected by a sad and dark undertone. I could see this energy start to take hold onto everything I was making. The feelings started to manifest themselves as a single entity living separate from myself but occupying the same mind.

 

I knew that I needed to do something in order to seperate myself and more importantly my work from this dark energy. I could no longer afford to let this darkness influence my soul and art.

 

In order to separate myself from this negativity I created  The DoUgH cHiEf.  An Artist completely separate from who I am. An Artist who only exists to express the negativity of my existence. A knock-off artist that creates in a very minimalist manner.

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In order to fully separate The DoUgH cHiEf from myself and the art of Dope Chief I separated how each artists create. DoUgH cHiEf only creates using my left hand. While all the work created by Dope Chief is made with my right. This allows me to separate both artists within my mind but also physically as well. "

 

- Dope Chief