“Chaos is what I’m looking for.”

After moving to New York in the late 1970s, Dan Witz spent his nights playing raucous concerts and his days strolling through museums and studying art.

He merged his two loves and began creating mosh pit paintings, capturing people at their rawest and most primal selves. Learn about his process and hear more from the hardcore scene in ‘Under The Influence: New York Hardcore,’ originally published on April 23, 2015:

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