The split. Yes, I had a bit of a falling out with Mike beforehand. But it was a pretty clean split. He went his way, I went mine. I won’t lie. The split has definitely affected me. But I’ve tried to channel it as inspiration for my art. I just caught up with some reporters from ARTMagazine to give them a preview of my most recent creations. This collection is called, “The Art of Splitting”. The idea behind it is this. When you split with someone (a co-worker, a best friend, a partner), there could be different ways for it all to go down. Is it a clean, simple split with both sides being equal (like slicing a lemon in half)? Or do you split over and over again, leaving your guts in many pieces (like with an orange)? And do you divide your stuff like separating different colored grapes? I’ve wondered about some of these questions and have expressed that in my artwork. I’ll keep the split collection under wraps for now until I make a plan for its official debut. But here’s a look at a few pieces from my Power of Fruit collection. We may never look at fruit the same way again. Now fruit candy is another story. I can never get enough of MIKE AND IKE®. ~ Ike