About Me
hello and welcome to private grave. my name is albert grave and i am an artist currently living in virginia.
What Is Private Grave?
There’s no such thing as a private grave, death is shared by all. Cemeteries and graveyards are full of the remains of people, none of which are private. At the same time all graves remain a private place in that death because, like life, is experienced by one individual. Life is a private grave.
Private Grave is my digital home, a private places for me to digitally hang up my little drawings, record my process, really just a way to improve my art. Private Grave is my place to be without status updates and people trying to “friend” me. While PrivateGrave is my personal digital point, like the remains of death it is shared by all. Here you can read my thoughts, see my inspiration and feel superior to me in anyway you would like.
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life to be at peace.” -Oscar Wilde
My skills
- graphite
- pen & ink
- illustration
- glue eating
Background
I was hatched in the world cold and wet in the year of Orwell’s masterpiece on the questionable line that separates the South from the Southwest. The better part of my youth was spent swallowing whole the works of S. Dali, F. Bacon, and various tattooers, while straining my eyes on the words of P.Z. Brite and H.P. Lovecraft. The worse part of my youth was spent eating glue and drawing pictures of dead things in the back of the class room.
I have spent some time in the American Southwest where the food is authentic, in the portion of Nihon where tanks run over little girls, the country of waffles and I currently reside in a land of poorly fitting suits.
I spend my time reading, thinking about tattoos and of course drawing, painting or otherwise creating. Sometimes I go to work, it’s not fun and I don’t like it.
I create things because I have to there is a part inside of me that needs to come out and there is no other escape. I’ve never been to art school and it’s not even in my immediate future. I create because I have to and you can like it or not I just feel like it’s time to share.
