He cites M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Paul Cezanne, Leonardo DaVinci and Cartoon Art as formative influences.
He's told Street Art United States: "I got into street art properly just over 4 years ago, I was a tagger before that, which wasn’t looked at in a street art sense, but was more a territorial thing."
Now his work is highly respected. And what really marks him out is his use of puns. Some are just funny.