These are my jeans. They are made in Japan by a small London brand called CHOKE which I was involved in from 2001/2002.

Unfortunately the brand, just pre the streetwear internet boom and burdoned with wanting to make high end japanese finishing, only lasted a couple of seasons but these jeans are still alive and kicking. They have seen some action to say the least and travelled around the world with me for, Hong Kong livepaints, NewYork studio sessions, Berlin gallery experiments, installations in Tokyo and partying in Paris.

Something about wearing them just puts me in the right frame of mind to paint, not they are lucky, they have been involved in some questionable situations, especially when I have to make a livepaint infront of a large crowd, they are like my safety jeans, with an anything could happen subclause. Like drinking Jack and coke, you know your safe with the first couple but after a point you just loose count of how many you have had and suddenly the sun is coming up again.

People have tried to buy them off me, most recently money no object owner of Bread&butter Karl Heinz while I was making the installation mural for the sportandstreet section, but there is absolutely no way i could part with them, I figure at some point in the far off future I wall get them framed for an exhibition but for now they still have work to live.

natural wear in the coin pocket, gesso and spraypaint…

I guess i could call them autobiographical. Hopefully the expression ‘what happens on tour, stays on tour’ applies to denim also…..

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