LSD Magazine - Issue 9 - Chasing Dragons

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movement in the past in Dubai. So what I do (in terms of street art) has been influenced by a few artists I have come across while living abroad , travelling or through my own research. Artists like John Fekner, Laser 3.14, Neko, MiztahBush, Robert Montgomery, a bit of Egor Kraft and pretty much anyone who has ever tried to express themselves in public and try to engage the public’s mind at the same time through text. It might be seen as “new” here, but there’s nothing about what I’m doing that’s new or original. I’m just fed up as an artist, and I’m going out and doing something about it. Because of some of the attention some my tags have been getting recently people think that it’s new in Dubai, but it’s not. Emirati,

Indian and European kids have been scrawling stuff on walls in the older neighborhoods way before anything I ever did. And you have a few throw ups around the city by some street artists that have passed through from abroad. How the hell did you end up in Dubai Came over here as a teenager from Australia. Originally my mom is European and my dad is North African and they both fell in love with Dubai because it has elements of both of their home cultures. I did go to boarding school abroad though as well as university in Canada, but fam and close friends were here so I used to come back all the time for holidays before I started working here after university.


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