Toly: I enter some sort of trance-like state, it's been talked about to death but it happens, something takes over my arm, my mind.

Chris: How much form in advance was this image before it got onto paper?

Toly: The car was formed, drawing the girl wasn't. The drawing of the girl happened in 30 seconds before I passed out.

Chris: Are there other ones in here which did come to you fully formed? And then you consciously recreated from what you thought out?

Toly: Yeah, Beershits.

Beershits - 20" x 15"

Chris: And then are there ones in here where you had no concept before hand but you just said okay, I'm going to see what comes out; sort of the opposite extreme?

Toly: Opposite extreme, yeah the painting Tanya, a friend of mine, I had no clue that I was going to paint her, it just started happening and everything just kinds happened around it.

Tanya - 20" x 15"

Chris: I see basically three separate styles, what I call splatter, straight up cartoon, comic type stuff such as Tanya, and Teenagers in Heat, and then you have a much more psychedelic style as in Angelina Jolie.

Toly: I tried to capture a Chinese dragon, you know chasing like a dragon type feeling.

Tanya - 20" x 15"

Chris: How do you deicide from your style or conversely, do you see any other ones, am I missing stuff?

Toly: No, you're right. When I start out something I know if it's going to be a graphic looking poster or if it's going to be more of a painting, which you call splatter. With the splatter stuff I do have to develop space sometimes, in other words it's just that I like the way paint looks when it's wet, when it's splattered. So I just work on something as long to make it look good.

Chris: In your art work there are a lot of reoccurring symbols such as skulls, a triple X and the anarchy symbol, I was wondering why are you so interested in this specific symbols?

Toly: They're symbols of our generation really, some of them become mainstream, they don't bear any meaning any more, but I'm trying to put meaning into them again. Like the triple X used to mean something cool but now it's like lost most of it's meaning.