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good

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so

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current currently right now i think my

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main focus

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it well it’s actually really shifted

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because a lot of my a lot of my

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past work has been inspired by graffiti

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art at just actually painting on the

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street

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painting under bridges and all that and

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and i love to do that i love that

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practice but i want to kind of

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create more work that speaks to a wider

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audience and so

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my new work is kind of been accompanied

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by poetry that i’ve written over the

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years i’ve never really known what to do

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with my poetry

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it’s just these words come into my head

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and i just write them down but then they

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just

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stay in my drawer or whatever but i’m

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finding a real connection with my poetry

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to my art so

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now my practice is combining the both

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and i really rely heavily on caricature

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work and cartooning to

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express a bigger idea of what my

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graffiti pieces

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were or want them to convey so now that

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i’m combining the

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the poetry i don’t want to say instead

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of the graffiti lettering but

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just this is a new mix that i’m doing

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and i’m finding a lot of

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connection with myself and with my art

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through that

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that that the text in the show that i

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did

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in in the gallery for the mural was a

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poetry that i’ve that i’ve written

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it’s not really specifically written for

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any type of thing it’s just a

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verse or a poem that i had in one of my

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books and i thought it would be cool to

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kind of

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convey convey the idea and the energy of

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graffiti art as a

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personal experience of one individual

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and his

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his idea of graffiti through his lens i

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guess so i guess it’s

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an experience of someone who just feels

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a necessity to create no matter

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what

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not it’s not specifically me it’s more

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supposed to be like there’s many people

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like me that are having these

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uh mystical experiences on the street

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where

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you know a lot of society gets caught up

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in the legalities of graffiti

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where um you have to remember that

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there’s people that are just having

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these experiences

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for themselves and there’s a whole story

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behind why

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each person is creating it’s not under

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one i mean it comes under one big

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umbrella but there’s so many specific

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different stories and reasons why

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each person is creating what he’s

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creating so

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i mean society itself calls it graffiti

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but

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from the inside we call it writing so

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it’s a writing culture so

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i wanted to emphasize the the writing

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part the the

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idea that we’re actually continuing to

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honor the the written language writing

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words writing messages

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writing messages for the public to see

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is really what i wanted to convey

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aside from like the idea the whole

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energy behind graffiti is also like the

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messaging

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you

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