I work a lot and I study calligraphy in general, not restricting myself to a single country or anything like that, but study it in general and I update the typography to contemporary standards and aesthetics.
How much time is involved for each of your pieces ? Generally I spend 6 to 8 hours on a piece but some of them have actually taken me several days.
Do you get lost in the moment and let the work that comes out surprise you ? I always approach a wall without sketches so that improvisation lets the piece change according to my mood… Even if I am drawing almost every day, when I go do the painting, I don’t take the sketches with me.
How important is the texture of a wall I don’t pay too much attention to the textures, at the moment I favour smooth walls that are not too paint thirsty.
Speaking of textures, can you tell us a little about Cellograff ? In 2009 me and Kanos came up with an innovative concept called CelloGraff. The idea was to do graffiti on cellophane. Kanos was the first one to do it when he was studying at the Beaux-Arts in 2006. This new technique allowed graffiti to exist without disrupting city life or permanently marking sensitive walls and we’ve done an awful lot of pieces on cellophane in Paris ever since