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your work in an environment? from an aesthetics perspective I believe it What should everyone understand
The one main thing is Love. I also want has a place in a gallery and museum. Either about graffiti art?
people to feel good when they see my way it will cancel each other out. I am They shouldn’t. If they choose to
pieces or art. I want them to feel my en- against both but will advocate both. understand it then they will realize it is
ergy or feel the fun I had doing it. I often more than what many may perceive it to
times try to include something funny or How do you see the form evolving? be. Whether one realizes it, Graffiti is
witty. It’s cool when I see a piece and walk I cannot even begin to fathom how it has another form of art. But then again,
away with a smile. But I guess overall the evolved and what it will evolve to. I just know it isn’t art. Everything one thinks graffiti
message is I AM HERE!! that it will continue evolving, developing, is, will always be the opposite. Whatever
advancing. When I first started graffiti I one defines graffiti to be one day the
What is the difference in presenting your never imagined it being what it has become, next day it will be something different.
work in a gallery setting as opposed to a what it has matured to so I therefore cannot Since Graffiti is a reflection of society
street setting? Do you prefer one over even conceive what graffiti or street art will and its own subcultures, it will always
another? be in the next 10 or 20 years. reflect the social unrest in the letter’s
For me it is the same. Aside from the space jagged edges, the unifying movement
or surface one may have on a wall or the What are your goals for your own work? in its circular font or our social unrest
streets. To me they are both inadequate Just to evolve, progress and to remain. with, at times, illegible to the stubborn,
and adequate. I don't care for either unaccepting, untrained eye. It will always
because as a purist I believe graffiti should Who are your favorite artists, and why? change because society is always in
remain in the streets but as an artist and Me and my alter egos—because it’s me. a constant FLUX.
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