William Saroyan’s "The Time of Your Life" by Korean-born artist based in L.A., CRYPTIK @_cryptik_ at 169 Bis Boulevard Vincent Auriol, Paris 13th Arrondissement, France in October 2018 as part of the Boulevard Paris 13 Project with @galerie_itinerrance. Photos taken January 2025.
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"Well, it’s actually just my own stylized version of English. It’s sort of a combination of several Ancient scripts such as Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hindi with a twist of gang graffiti/cholo writing."
2011 interview https://hifructose.com/2011/11/12/an-interview-with-cryptik/
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William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (excerpt)
“In the time of your life, live — so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed.
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Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.
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Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself.
... (continued) ” https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/28887-the-time-of-your-life-a-comedy-in-three-acts
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2020 video interview by Fowler Museum at UCLA (1h9s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOC8OxruUsQ
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Artist website: http://cryptik.com/
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