SEAK: Graffiti and Street Art Diary

looking back to the satelite series ive did for the biennale in Shenzhen ill tend to break down my letters more and more recently into plain satellites.
ill started this canvas 3 years ago, and it took me almost 2 month in my studio to finish this baby up.
love and hate are sometimes so close together. iam kinda over with those hardcore detailed big canvases unless ill add a zero at the end or triple the first number.
no one told me 16 years ago that urban art will be so much work.
in anycase thats a keeper deluxe, for sale only in good and the right hands.
still thinking about a good title. it kinda represents the infinitive possibilties, movement, creative chaos, the joy of repeating yourself,….

Es macht richtig Lust bei Auftragsarbeiten inhaltlich freie Hand zu haben.

Besonders wenn der Partner in diesem Fall die Hgk (die grosse unbekannte Schwester der Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe), entsprechend aufgeschlossen ist.

Da kommen einem Ideen, die ganz nah am Tagesgeschehen liegen.

during the prepartion for my first show in Los Angeles in 2003, ive became interviewed by Ian lynam in a near by donut place.
besides my Interview you will find other interesting statements and positions by fellow urban art collegs like Mike Giant, barry “twist” mcgee, my good friend Mirko Reisser (daim), my friend the founder of awr,msk, and seventh letter Eclipse, aswell as Jerry “joker” Inscoe, Delta from Amsterdam, and the cholo tagstyle legend Chaz bojorquez,……..

While everyone is focusing on prints and the secondary market, this rare huge Monster of canvas is now finally finished after 3 years.
My personal record in fighting with a painting in terms of size/action/details/time
Ill guess this one falls under the urban art categorie ” schluesselwerk”, or in other words, its a beautiful highly detailed accident.
Dont know ive it will end up in an auction, or ive i will stash it for someone special.
maybe its time think about some highclass prints.
iam still thinking about a name, “we`re having a party, my memories and me” vs ” the mother of all battles”. i open for suggestions…….

Nach denn ganzen Ausstellungen und freien Arbeiten der letzten Jahre, hatte ich mal wieder richtig Lust auf eine Naturalistische Anfrage wo ich gegenständlich sprühen konnte.

Thema und Motiv haben der Auftraggeber und ich gemeinsam bei ein paar Tassen Espresso erarbeitet.

The good thing about doing commission/murals, there is usually a very healthy budget, the money is fast and easy, you can be someone else for a few hours, fool arround artisticly, have a laugh, learn a new approach on building up a painting, and get artistcly naughty and kinky besides your regular line of work as an artist. esspecially when you have a crazy client like this one here.
this atomic bomb mural is by the why the major wall of a living room.

Auftragsarbeit
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Über Karneval hatte ich Graffitisprüher aus New York zu Besuch.

Geplant war spontan ein gemeinsames Wandbild umzusetzen.

Als das Wetter sich dann verschlechterte und die Jungs sich vom Kölner Rosenmontagszugs erholt hatten, improvierten wir einfach in dem wir gemeinsam das Mural was ich mit einem Künstlerkollegen aus Sao Paulo 2002 hier gemacht hatte ausbesserten und weiterfortsetzten.

latley more and more artist friends and collegs are anouncing them self for a short “paint over weekend” as it seems. this time i had some graffiti writers from new york of carnival here.
the odd weather and the crazy street carnival couldnt stop us from painting at least something together.
i still regret not having a little tag wall in the studio or my guestroom, from everyone who has stood, chilled, painted here with me, missed cantwo, os gemeos, daim (mirko reisser), codeak (daniel mann),Henning Krautmacher von den Hoehnern, Herbert Baglione aus Sao paulo, Heiko zahlmann (daddy cool) und stohead (Christoph Hässler) aus hamburg, David Kamerer (CEMNOZ), Helge Steinmann (Bomber), duesseldorf`s fume, von der kelly family, Till westwood, Henning Krautmacher, Frank Schnuettgen, dyset, neck cns, efais, moritz, scien and klor cns/ 123klan, wow 123, dash from perth, vania from montepellier, loomit (matthias koehler), robots will kill, seemsoe aus dortmund, sula /tnb/tats, how and nosm von der tats crew, tilt,ceet, toast (ata), satone, besok (daniel doebner),Seen (richie), tony curanaj (sub), ecb/hendrik, phenc/ remco van de craats, kilo from england, shok1 (joel butcher), skore, liese, dos crew, wik,……….pardon and remind me ive forgot someone. well what ive basically wanted to say, looks like those times are coming back.