Art on walls

Graffiti is all about expressing yourself. You can be in a crew or not, but what you put on a wall or anything, you are putting your name on it. Deep inside it helps you, therapeutically because it is your safety net. It becomes something you want to do, the thrill, the danger, and excitement. You think our society is wrong? Bomb a wall and express it for people to see. It is your freedom.

You have the choice to express what ever you are thinking with the power of your creativity. I didn't really understood graffiti when I was starting out, all I knew was that it looks amazing. The details, the colors, the whole shabang. I liked it. But when I started to do my own pieces, I started to know why people did it. They wanted to be known, they wanted that fame. In word of mouth that fame will all over your area or wherever you want it to be. Until, it is washed away, or been gone over by another writer. But people still do it because its the way they can just be themselves, with out the rules.

If you make something legal, it wouldn't be the same anymore. You get tagging permits for you to write on a wall that is placed there to be written on? It isn't worth it. Graffiti isn't meant to be kept in canvases or galleries, they are meant to be outside.. on walls. But every writer has that desire, the desire to make money on what they are doing. The desire to make a brand, Shepard Fairey (Obey), Mark Ecko (Ecko) they are making money, a lot of people wear their stuff, but graffiti isn't about that.

To me, it was never about the fame. It wasn't for the attention. I did it because I wanted to do it. Notice it or not, my name would be on that wall, or on that stop sign. I was there, I was alive, and you can't do anything about it.