Supreme Clientele AP

Highly collected worldwide and member of the infamous Burning Candy crew. Cyclops is a self confessed struggle between the loose and the tight, order and chaos. Referencing his contemporaries, the language of hip hop and the random esoteric genius of such forgotten luminaries as Tony Romanoff, Cyclops' work is an autodidactic attempt to say the things that are difficult to say sometimes. Ultramagnetic like...Of all the parts of our body, teeth, crammed into the mouth cave, are a constant reminder that we are merely flesh hanging out to dry on an elaborate chain of bone linkages. The pulpy ripped swollen scarlet and pink flesh that we call the gums, barely tolerate their border-line function as a visual testament to life and death. The mouth itself is in constant crisis. It is the place where stuttering words come forth, where words are taken back, where ‘sweet’ foods begin their rot. Francis Bacon understood that the mouth is at once entrance and exodus. When we scream we also breathe. In order to exhale we must inhale. For Sweet Toof this sway between horror and acceptance is an important part of his work. Sweet Toof’s painting starts with and evolves out of his street art; whether as a solo graffiti artist or in collaboration with others. Typical tags, throw- ups, and more elaborate pieces become a whole language which informs his studio works. Like the streets of 1980’s New York, London’s streets today are being reclaimed by an ever increasing army of street artists of which Sweet Toof is one of the most prolific and artful. Out there, under the swirl of lamplights, billboards and urban detritus, ‘bubble-Gums’