The Vicious Penguin Files are a series of interviews with Tracy168 the Artist (Wild Style, Lovester One) on the life that informed his art. I conducted these interviews with him late 2020 through 2021 in NYC. For full background on these interviews and their format, do visit Vicious Penguin on www.tracy168.com so you have context. The website also links to his obituaries which include brief biographies of who he was. Individual files will be uploaded late 2023 throughout 2024. If you wish to share, please do not download the video and upload elsewhere: rather, embed to the original youtube video and credit: The Vicious Penguin Files at www.tracy168.com.

“Late 2020 into 2021, Tracy168 and I embarked on an artistic collaboration. He wanted to tell the historical journey of his art (ripe with its crazy escapades) but where art was key. He emphasized that “it could go everywhere, do lots of things”, true to his life. It had a central character that started it all for him as a child. Tracy had managed to get close to double digits in age when he met him. But this character gave him a code on how to survive the remainder of his life…”

The remainder of this letter and introduction to these files and the video can be found on here. Shared in memorial.