This one is totally feeding my obsession for flags: For most of the last 15 years, Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s name was only known in artistic circles, despite the fact that he’s been deep in pop culture’s (edgier) inner circle from a very young age. The Canadian-born grows up in the San Fernando Valley, goes on tour with Courtney Love’s band Hole as a youngster, even briefly lives in Seattle —working for the royal couple of grunge as Frances Bean Cobain’s nanny (plus appearing in drag on the actual cd of Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ album)— and at the age of 19 he moves to New York City. Two years later he returns to Los Angeles, where he starts working as an A&R at Geffen and eventually co-founds his label Teenage Teardrops, alongside Bryan Ray in 2006 (which now a days also houses a publishing branch and is run by the artist together with his wife Jenna). In this period, halfway the first decade of the 21st century, DeWitt also begins expressing himself visually, soon finding a signature genre of visual poetic work, which we feel could be best described as Gangster Holzer, also strongly reminding of the inspirational work of Eike Koenig. From that period on the multitalent has been creating a diverse field of output: from music video’s, album artwork, photography projects to radio shows and numerous publications — establishing himself as an artist with the cool of a rock star, always pushing himself in finding new areas for his artistic expressions.
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