LSD Magazine - Issue 9 - Chasing Dragons

movement. New techniques and thinking often give rise to a schism within a subculture.

Ultimatley people learn to combine both and you end up with a progressive movement powerful style, stylish power, etc. It happened in bboying a few years before graffiti and urban / street art but you’re seeing the synthesis there now. As writers / artists mature they start experimenting with different techniques. Ultimately, the art is either good or it isn’t. I’m less interested with static semantic labels of an artform and the artform doesn’t care - it just moves on. Its important to remember roots and foundations when you talk about any subculture, like graf, but the point of having a great foundation is to know it and develop beyond it. I love watching writers like Solo-1, Bonzai and Lovepusher not somersault on hard floors. Bearing that in continue to push their boundaries all the time. mind, since I’d started documenting graf I just kept going. After I finished my PhD I moved Tell us about the genesis of the Global Street to LA to work for a finance company for a few years. I just kept taking photos. Through a Art project couple of other jobs I just kept traveling and taking pictures. I decided that documenting After I blew out my knee I had to stop dancing graf and street art, the art that we see outside (although I still do dance now when I find the and that disappears frequently, is worth a time). I could still walk and climb fences, just career, my career.