GET INVOLVED : SCOOP BRANCISCO
Profile
Scoop Brancisco is an artist based in Honolulu, Hawaii. He specializes in the following areas: oil painting, house painting, drawing, industrial design, graphic design, web design, advertisement, photography, photo development, and cartooning.
In 2007, Scoop had three group exhibitions and was also commissioned to design a portrait for the stage set of LOST, a popular TV series in the US. He is a recipient of the Geraldine P. Clark Memorial Fellowship.
Why Toilets and WTO?
A toilet, to me, is a symbol of "sanctuary"; no matter which country I go, I can be perfectly relieved when I go to a rest room and close the door. So my toilet art originally derives from my appreciation towards toilets.
As time passed, my interest for the subject grew larger, and I started to learn more about it; I have learned the history of toilets, the current sanitation system in civilized countries, and the sanitation problems that some developing countries have.
World Toilet Organization is a fantastic non-profit organization that aims to improve the global sanitation problems. Its mission is honorable, and I am glad to be able to contribute my tidy help to the organization.
How I intend to use my talent and create change?
I am no talker, nor writer (as you can see how my terrible my writing is).
I am a painter, and a painter can only paint.
I am hoping to change the general image of toilet in public - such as "dirty", "dark", "sloppy", "joke", and "uncool"- by showing my toilet paintings.
Toilets can be "cool", "humorous", "exciting", "adorable", "humane", "artistic", and they deserve more attention and appreciation by people.
Message to fellow artists
The people from WTO are all nice people. I have never met any of them, but I can tell that they are nice by just exchanging e-mails with them.
Please, for once, stop making art just for yourself and consider making art to improve the world. All of you must use toilets more than once everyday; it's time for you to finally give something back to them.
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