Robert The

Robert The never planned on being an artist, he was first double majored as a philosophy and math major and was interested in language and logic, things he felt were the "foundations of truth and meaning". He describes his start in art as "I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read of a period for a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level. It also unsettled my nerves and undermined my passion to continue with my studies in that particular direction." Interested in unconventional mediums he firstly showed an emmerging interest in letter formation which lead him to working with enamel. After deciding enamel not being physical enough in presence he decided to cut "this" out of a book, which to his surprise sold. Thus his book cutting and altering career started and has blossomed into some interesting results. His art is fairly conventional and simple but its interesting and unique with strong messages behind the piece.

"Books are guns, a dictionary is a noose, and bugs crawl out of covers."
- Robert The