What Is The Best Part Of Gunpowder Art?

I love to compete.

My Dad taught me that.

But my art is not a competition.  I'm not working to get more like, or follows, or sales. My art is more of an inner pursuit and inner battle.  I'm trying to make something with some soul.  It's a challenge.  It gets me going.

I hope to be personable.  I'm embedding my emotions into my art with heat, fire and explosions.

The best part about working with gunpowder and fuse?  When I 'm sad, depressed, and stressed out I can light the fuse and blow it up.  Better, when I'm happy and thrilled to be alive, igniting my work is fantastic.

In the Blast Factory I feel tranquil, peaceful and calm.  Time, space and anxiety disappear.

Then, boom!

Artist Stick Vega studied mathematics and economics, earning a B.S. in economics from UW-Madison and an MBA from Edgewood College. He owned and was CEO of online apparel retailers WinterSilks and Venus Sportswear.  However, upon selling the companies more than a decade ago he headed straight to his studio - The Blast Factory in Madison, WI - to create explosive, modern art with gunpowder and high-speed fuse.  Stick's current work includes paintings, drawings, fusographs (exploded photographs) and writing. Please follow Stick on Facebook and/or Twitter.