One of the wonders of aerosol writing culture is you can use any tool whatsoever. Everything can leave some sort of mark on something. You can create on any budget, innovate and break boundaries anywhere. Look at Rizot for example, he creates fields with repetition and simple tools. I remember seeing a work on the internet of a one colour Futura field of sprayed mist type thing that defied description.

My old friend Michael Petchkovsky was talking about the simplicity of electrical circuits and how repetition created a complex field. There is that similarity in simplicity multiplying over and over again. It can become overwhelming, like a volume of water that creates untold pressure. The key idea in aerosol culture then is always the creation of diamonds. The repetition and mastery.

Something that has stunted my artistic growth is my obsession with style writing classic shapes, classic forms that I bend and twist. This is why I got left behind by Zap for example. He went deeper and found many correlating forms in classic design, style writing, fine art, vintage comics and other research. At the same I love the challenges I have and can’t get enough of looking at a lot of aerosol work and a lot of tagging especially.

In a lot of ways I realise how lucky I am to be able to explore and do what I am doing. A lot of people can’t find the time, I actually don’t really have the time either which is why I have always worked fast. I do a lot of my legal painting in under an hour and a half. Half the time I am waiting for people to finish but I can take up to three hours if I need to do a complex portrait. I like loose illustrative styles like what Mark Bode does, you see the hand.