I began painting graffiti in late 1989 - early 1990. I fell in love with its independency, the swift implementation and the anarchistic approach of the artform. The attitude of not giving a damn about the rules appealed to me strongly. But it still had very strict rules within the own field, ways how to do things and what is and is not acceptable when performing graffiti. A contradiction, which keeps the whole thing interesting enough to keep me still drawn to it, after all these years.
Even though it ain't that visible from my paintings, heavy music has always had an important role in my art. I find both inspiration as well as primal energy from it which I try to channel the best way I can on to my paintings. My first encounter with graffiti and heavy music took place in the mid-eighties.
The actual message of graffiti is rather simple: the moniker of it's painter, presented in well executed, ornamental way, using the established forms of the genre. The moniker is in most cases presented with letters or forms/characters looking like letters. This very independent form of street typography, letter design that's done with spraypaint (and these days other artistic methods as well) is still, to this date, the very core of my artistic working. Always starring the following five letters: A, C, T, O and N.