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My name is Fabio, I'm 29 years old, I've been painting since 1998,
I've been graffitting the streets, but I've been drawing since I was 2.
I started out doing lettering, writing my nickname Cranio [Skull],
I started liking this vibe, this rush of going out on the streets
and not knowing where you're gonna paint, finding an interesting place and doing it.
And I haven't stopped ever since, being doing it to this day.
Graffiti's role in a city like São Paulo
is making the city a little more attractive, you know, funnier,
happier, colorful, cause São Paulo is gray.
São Paulo has the Clean City Law, that erases all sorts of graffitti,
paint it all gray, and it's a part of our culture already, you know,
if you walk around and see everything gray again, without graffiti,
with no-one ever doing graffiti again, it won't be São Paulo anymore.
Make a living doing art in Brasil isn't easy, there's ups and downs, you know,
but if you've got talent, you go for it, you make an effort,
you dedicate time to that, you study, you try to evolve, you know,
it won't be impossible, for sure,
'cause you're doing what you like, you're not gonna make a poor job,
you're gonna make it well done, so if there's quality, if you've got substance,
you'll have visibility, you'll be recognized.
The little blue Indian character I developed,
it came like, I was searching for a style that represented our culture.
So, searching it, I came to the conclusion that the Indian was the natural characters of Brazil,
he was here before us, so thinking about that
I came to this intervention of the little Indian in the city,
so that's how he came up, kindof searching for our country's original style.
Few year ago a real Indian in Brasília, I think everyone already knows this story,
and some guys drove by and set him on fire just because
he was lying there sleeping at the sidewalk,
so it's kindof a protest about this ***, you know,
and a protest about the insecurity and how neglect the Brazilian people are.
You paint it and if someone likes it, cool, if someone doesn't, deal with it.
I'm here doing what I want, so the negative means nothing compared
to my satisfaction painting the streets, in doing my job, painting with a spray can,
been there on the sidewalk, at a wall, people passing by,
greeting, cursing, I really like this atmosphere, it moves me.
I see myself like 80, 90 years old, with a walker, doing graffiti, you know?
In a wheelchair, barely standing on my legs,
but being able to press the spray can, being able to paint around.
That's how I see it.