LSD Magazine - Issue 9 - Chasing Dragons

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How much does the context and the location of a work surprise you as the piece interacts with it over time?

messages and for me this is not art, these great political and social messages, to me it looks more like he is settling a score with himself. Personally I have no score to settle A lot, I’m always surprised by it and I think it’s with society, the police, the queen or Sarkozy, actually one of the most interesting aspects I have no score to settle. To me, this is not art, to street art. Once again I must say that I it is something else. My message, the way I don’t like big frescos, big painted walls in want it to work, is to bring something new, cities. Why? Because what I find interesting to communicate so that people evolve a little in street art is that it is a way of interacting bit in their own world, to make a change in with people, a way to communicate with the world in which they live. It’s a very small people from the street, with people from the thing but I don’t have any slogans. I look for city, with children... When an artist does a communication, I would like people in the big mural painting, he communicates alone cities to get closer to each others because I and that doesn’t interest me. What I find think loneliness, anonymity are real problems thrilling is for example if I make a stencil in San in the cities, something I felt deeply when I Francisco and someone else puts something was living in town. So that’s what I try to do, else just near my work, even if it is offensive bringing people together and make them towards my stuff, I like that. I don’t care if communicate. people say it’s beautiful or it’s ugly, I just like the interaction, the fact that something happens between me and this person I don’t But there is still a social aspect to your work, know who will add something, that’s what it’s the idea of giving a voice to marginalized all about. people, to the forgotten. Isn’t there? All the big messages that artists have to give to the world for example just don’t interest me. Banksy for example, he has these great

Not that much actually. The only message I had in my whole life was about war. That’s why I did soldiers. I have been doing soldiers


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