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Photo: Ant
trification and a lot of things that happen in the city.
There’s sometimes spots available and then sometimes
new ones come up and sometimes old ones get
destroyed, so I guess the coolest thing about graffiti
is you have to be consistent and just have a continuous
passion to do it. Things automatically pop up and
that just kind of inspires me to go paint.
What do you want people to see when they
look at your artwork?
Ahhh, well graffiti is a lot more egotistical. This I
wouldn’t consider graffiti, because it’s legal. I think
the actual action going out and bombing and doing
something that’s against orthodox, what other people
would want to see, I think that’s actual graffiti. I don’t
know if I want to specifically want someone to see
something but the idea is more of a personal understanding
of being able to go out and do something
that you want to accomplish for yourself and the
glorification is all in everybody seeing it.
You have some pretty gnarly grip tape pieces
I’ve seen. Do you get the same high as
painting in the city?
Yes, and no. yes because when I’m sitting there it’s
a totally different tranquil feeling and a lot of different
emotions are coming out but when I’m out
in the street there’s just a high and adrenaline that
you can’t take away from doing something like that
and its just kind of hard to explain unless you’re out
there at 3 in the morning and there’s nothing happening
and you still got that little risk of getting in
trouble so, yes and no.
Do you have a preference on the artwork
you do?
Yeah, there’s nothing like going out and bombing on
the streets. I would have to say yeah.
How is your relationship with the other
street artist out there?
It comes and goes. To be completely honest, I would
say a lot of people I’ve met who do graffiti aren’t
the most qualified citizens and they’re not the most
respectful people either. I just feel like I’m cut from
a different cloth when it comes to collaborating with
other graffiti artist instead of people who do street
art. Sometimes people are just a product of their environment.
I get a long with a few other people who
do graf in the city and the people who do know me
like me but a lot of the people who don’t know me are
the people who don’t like me.