How did you initially get into writing. Was it having something to say and finding a medium or tagging that turned into something to say It was having something to say and finding a medium for it.Because of the environment I live in here in Dubai, it was kind of like this natural evolution in a way. I don’t have a graffiti background but have a deep hip hop background. As a kid I grew up with hip hop. Through Hip hop. But I personally was much for focused on music and rhymes more than I was on graffiti and the other aspects of the culture. I’m also an artist who has uses lot of text and descriptions in my work, so, in that sense, writing (literally speaking) has always been there. Being an expat artist in Dubai has a lot of frustrations that come with it because there are very few opportunities for you to grow or get your work picked up. Especially when your work is far from anything perceived to
have “value” by the commercial art world . If you are a national Emirati, you can receive support as well as if you’re an internationally recognized name that will attract attention. But, other than a handful of places, the art world here is pretty much sealed off to the commercial realm. The majority of the galleries are set up to sell and trade international art and not really to support local or locally based artists. So I basically lost interest in the gallery scene and, in a way, what I am doing is a response to the art world here, as much as it is a means to stay existentially sane. Although I’m not Emirati, Dubai is pretty much home to me and wanting to see public art around the city is something I truly crave for . Sadly, the only public art that we really have here is in the form of corporate advertisements and giant commercial billboards. After a while, it just became too much to bear and I got fed up of complaining about things so I just decided to go out and do something about it. I never really had any local street art influences because there simply hasn’t been any kind of graffiti or public art