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Alexis Stephens aka Bust, has dedicated much of his life to dance in the Parisian hip hop scene, and has evolved into a painter, having asked himself, \u201cHow can I transfer multi-dimentional dance energy into a 2D image?\u201d

He represents the body as a sum of organized waves, and dynamic roiling gestures. Inspired by abstract expressionism and graffiti, he manages to successfully transcribe intense movement into single images.

His works combine acrylic with oil pastel and are extreme, surreal, instinctual and jarring, yet also articulate and objective. His work has been described as \u201cProfound yet subtle, vibrations that animate the form, and the representation of successive states of the self diving into landscape.

Alexis believes in freedom, discovery, reflection, hope, global balance, humanity\u2019s old dream of flying like Icarus, not outwards, but inwards, and exploring the 'I' for a better 'We'.