There have always been and there will always be people who have to clean and those who intentionally cross out artworks. You can understand it both as the battle between legal street art and graffiti, and the painter who, doing his job, goes against someone who’s trying to leave his own mark on society. A whole room with the never ending battle between the writer who got buffed and keep starting over again. You can find a message in every artwork I think it’s important that people can individually explain it, everyone in a personal way.» As years went by, I elaborated this technique to break the rigid and graphic look of the stencil and at the same time to take back the elements of the graffiti culture that I loved and used for a long time. For a long time I used a greyscale on different levels of the stencil for the subject, witha solid background color. I was inspired by Banksy’s political work at the beginning of my stencil days. I decided that it was time to experiment this technique myself, I was fascinated by the idea of sending a message to people.»ĭuring the years, you developed your unique style: a greyscale stencil and lot of colors. I spent some time on the internet to read up, Instagram didn’t exist yet and the pictures were uploaded on Flickr. One day a friend showed me some works from Banksy that he owned. Furthermore I consider the use of stencil another step in my natural artistic evolution. In my case I did every sort of thing: both legal and spontaneous walls, from characters to lettering. «Positive, the whole scene suffers a lot because of this politics that sentences firmly our art in public places. Nordic countries are famous for their zero tolerance towards graffiti. The result, honestly, was real s**t, but I realized how funny and inspirational this world could be.» So I went with my then-girlfriend abs my writer friend Tare, a Norwegian guy with a lot of experience in the scene.

I remember that, after a long period of tags and quick pieces with the marker, I wanted to try to make a legal wall to test my ability with the spray can. Graffiti came natural to me after I had been drawing, sketching and photographing things for a while. To be honest, during Westerdals School of Communication my ambition was to become a graphic designer and street art was just a passion for me, an hobby. After graduating in Art and Graphic Design, was your idea of becoming an international artist already crystal clear in your mind?

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