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Graffiti is the biggest
art movement in the world.
Every neighborhood has its own style
to not accept it at all and to make it outlawed
and illegal, one day will be recognized as a mistake.
In Vancouver street art
really has a negative vibe
for a lot of people
a lot of people are really passionate about hating it.
So I was kind of force to move
from street art to canvas, it's just a happier medium, like more accepted.
Well street art is very pure, like there's no money in it
it doesn't matter what people want with canvas work
you're trying to make
artwork
that people want to hang in their home
people like,
but with street art you have total freedom
of expressions
there's only one free wall in the city
that the city actually recognizes as a place that you're aloud to paint
without being arrested or without them buffing it, which is painting it white.
It's a tunnel underneath Hastings street
and i was lucky to grow up right next to this
placed where
you could go and paint.
Well the city
of Vancouver use to have a program
where they would
supply the paint
for a mural
and they would give the artist
five hundred dollars
then the artist would have to go and find a wall
that a business
could donate,
but this program has been scratch.
There's no graffiti management program in the city of Vancouver.
Even without funding, I think a lot of artist still want to paint
and still looking for space to paint.
So to have no program in the city right now is just terrible.
Well, growing up in the East Vancouver, there's a lot of property.
Just down the street is like the biggest
ghetto drug
neighborhood in Canada,
and it hasn't changed much
and as an artist
I can make images that a lot of people can see
and an image where it's a thousand words. A lot of times you feel like you don't have
can't do anything about
a problem.
It's nice to kind of
vent a bit
and have lots of people see it.
And Vancouver is such a beautiful place
but it also has kind of like a dark side
with the drug abuse and poverty and
in the East Side
so you get
kind of two
sources of inspiration there.
I can just walk down the street and
it looks like Blank Canvases to me.