John was born in Gothenburg to a middle-class family. His father, a well-known Gothenburg attorney, dreams of a glittering career for him.
However, John abandons his studies early on, preferring work as a garbage man.
Devoted to alcohol, he spends his Mondays (his one free day), at the neighborhood pub, “The Wild Goose”, drinking beer.
Notwithstanding his life as a garbage collector, he has a strong propensity for art for which he becomes a formidable self-taught scholar.
On those same Mondays, between one beer and the next, he enjoys drawing on the pub napkins, doodlings that range from classical to futuristic.
Then, in 1999, a turning point.
During a routine garbage collection at the University of Gothenburg, he draws a cock-shaped lamp on the blackboard of one of the classrooms.
This drawing does not go unnoticed and immediately draws the attention of a certain Karl Backman who upon its discovery exclaims: “the most extraordinary work of art I have ever seen!”
In those years, thanks to Karl Backman, he comes to know the Swedish Punk movement.
From that moment on John begins his career as an artist.
A career that, due to the fact that John only has Mondays available, has difficulty in taking off.
The sparse works produced in those early years acquire a degree of success, but a combination of the artist’s low output and refusal to abandon garbage collecting, contributes to him soon falling out of the loop.
In 2000, he definitively vanishes from the art scene radar.
He reappears on a Monday in 2006 in a bar in Caracas, when, after several Bullshots, he frantically begins to draw on the napkins of the bar.
On just that occasion he is noticed by Satan who, sensing his potential, sets up a collaboration that in 2021 leads to the creation of the brand WallStreetPunk.
“One more and then that’s it.”
John