1st Move Amerikalei
The whole scene fell apart. I was still busy with art graphics. I was designing hand made postcards (Mush Room Graphics)and had my own cartoon in a local magazine (Gerarke de Vos) and I also had started to paint with acrylic on canvas. When I had a chance to rent the downstairs floor in the building where I lived, I started to install a graphical atelier for students and artists. I hoped to make a living out of renting the atelier. I had a professional 60 cm wide etching press, a self-made screen print installation (I had built it to print King Flashman's promo material in my dad's garage)and a darkroom for black and white photographs and light film development. But just when the rooms were ready to install the devices, a couple of friends from the pub were kicked out of their apartment and I invited them to stay temporarily in the printing rooms. Six months later my landlady threw us all out because their dogs and cats had shit the whole place under and were a nuisance for the neighbors. At that moment I was still writing songs that I overvoiced on Studio One riddims from the record collection from our King Flashman Electro Sound System.I hoped to be discovered as a songwriter but I never found the connections because I didn't know how to network. I also kept on searching for a job but sometimes my masters degree was in my way, then I didn't have enough experience, and printing plants were using computers everywhere.
