Something I have been interested in lately is super boring environments that are soulless and have zero character or interest. Places like car parks have been a focus, the symmetrical repetition that is drained of colour. Normally there will be a dominant colour, mostly safety yellow. These types of spaces in my opinion are why graffiti exists. When I first started doing graffiti I went to car parks, laundries and focused on these spaces because they are purely functional and graffiti was the only thing they needed. That was a natural start to my graffiti interest.

Over the years I have a lot of repetitive dreams that have lasted decades, one is focused on a car park I first started doing graffiti in around where I lived. I was a twelve year old with a spray can and it wasn’t just graffiti but finding things, looking around and exploring. These types of urges are very natural and now I am fifty and I am taking photos of car parks and unpacking the significance of the most boring stuff imaginable. Also a lot of high end graffiti becomes super functional technically soulless and so tight technically.

That isn’t a criticism by the way, that to me is a nod to that functionally subvertable environments a lot of people found themselves in. You have to turn it around and I am hoping the next phase of work I am launching into is somewhat showing the artist’s hand. I don’t want to fight fire with fire, I want it to become a functional organism that crosses into a space that isn’t against the human touch. Best of all I don’t want to know what it does, just appear out of nowhere and maybe become something.