blank spaces on my wall.

Filling empty spaces in my room with artworks, photos and doodles. The space around you becomes more interactive.

Thats essentially what we do on streets, we make walls to interact with public. It is volontery social work that isn't always apriciated by society itself.
Anyway, we learn to live with it, but then at some point we stop doing for others and start doing for ourselfs, for our own leisure. The messages become bleeker or desappear at all.
It's not bad or wrong. It is great to do what you like.

The following year I am going to explore deeper into essence of graffiti and what it is for me.
Big promise, huh?
well we'll see.

Anyways.
I have a couple of flicks to share. Murals that i've done in a last 2 month.
One of my favorite piece in this style. It ain't perfect but needed effect is archived.
Done with Curve Sage Phex and Italo. South Auckland. Middlemore. Thanks to Dean for inviting and supprting us.
On this wall I used paintbrush first in a very long time. All tags aro done with it, + bits and pieces in the face and background. At that point I was stoked by resuld and desided to use it more in future.

I went to Christchurch for Christmas and New Years for a couple of weeks. Unlike last year I did manage to get in contact with local writers to paint with them.
The first wall we done is at the cooles spot possible. Nice clean wall right in a heart of town. Painted with Fluro (FDKNS x SUG) who was working on it for a few weeks already. I've done my part in about 5 hours or so. Highly enjoyable painting.
I have description of wall on my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/30965123@N06/5308411553/ so I shall not repeat myself.


Next day me Fluro and EyeQ paint in abandoned sheds. Really cool place. There are so many pieces good and bad. Good times. I did an outline for Fluro, she has quite difficult letters to work with.
Anyway, it was a pleasure to hang out and paint with them. In the time like that the only thing you can think of is "Graffiti is awesome".
It trully is.

A few days after I came back to Auckland, me and Italo were invited to paint out south again.
Cool spot. And boiling hot sun.
I aprroached the wall with a very few cans and a rough idea of what I want.
It turned out quite good. Needs more invistigation thou.
the letters inside face says ARFS, which is the name of crew I recently joined. Very proud to be part of it.

Than I had a week of sitting at home, scetching, learning screen printing trade and doing nothing.
It was well not sure how to descibe it. Was difficult. I found out that I can not sit and draw for a few days straight. I believe its becouse I never had a chance before. All sketches, stencils and painting are done at night when I was free of Uni. Well now I am free 24/7 and I am trying to cope with that.

That week ended with painting at manukau with a whole bunch of people.
The sun had no mercy again.
I found my self having the least paint ever. Sad but good becouse I am forced to try new things. maybe I am just being an optimist. This piece disturbed me out of my ballance. In my oppinion it isnt good. I failed to portray what I wanted and my skill wasn't up to my own standards. I rushed it. do not like when I have those time limits.
However there are certainly a few elements that I will use again.

That is all. Directions are set. The evolution of my characters is inevitable.
Piece
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Trip To Mother Land 2010

... places I wished to go, but never managed to.

I am back from my trip to Russia, I also spend a bit of time in China and Korea. An intense time.

Time... fascinating thing. so hard to control, so hard to make it work for you. Time never stops, perhaps people should learn such quality from time. To keep moving forward.

During that trip once again I realised one simple thing.

To value the time and never waste it.

To make the best of every day.

Last sentence sounds like a logical end of post, but i'll cary on.

The photographs below are the murals I've done at my homeland, not only in a city that I was born but in a few different locations. enjoy.

I've already painted here, exactly a year ago. There were a few reasons to paint it over. By far thats the largest mural I've done. I cannot say that this is my best piece, but I certainly like it. It took me five days under an intense sun to complete it. good people arond me made it bareable and enjoyable. Suprising support from locals.

There are so much to work on.

I've also played around with few styles that were in my head at the time.

I wouldn't say that it was a success but an interesting experement.

an outstanding piece, were the architecture is used to push the idea into 3rd dimention.

I was at Nakhodha at that time<>

The first moment I saw it - I knew excately what I gonna paint.

That mass of cement is ectually was used in a WW2 as a military fortification against Japanise navy. It used to house two Guns of enormous calibre. I presume that the shapes of gunholes were the one to inspire me. At first I thought of Tiki, but the design progresevly changed thru painting. It became Taniwha.

Havent painted any letters (or in my case numbers) for ages. Need to catch up.

My next destination was Partizansk, small city relatevly far from Vladivostok. We went there to see relatives. One evening I went out in search for ruins. That city is a purfect for study of post soviet envirolment. I felt like a tourist and I loved that feeling. Architecture. I was always interested in it, and now I am using graffiti expose it.

I spent quite a while there, having to wake up at 5 am.

My researches brought me to the local hospital and that little premise of theirs. spontanios shapes and faces have chased me throught the whole trip.

I was the first graffiti writer to hit this city, by the evening I was widely knowen.

Back at home town, I finally met Kashak. very tallanted writer from Yaroslavle that moved to Vladivostok. We went to paint at his favorite place and I loved it. endless opportunities.

This time, I had a sketch of few lines and drive to novelty. I finished it in 10 hours or so. Enjoed the process. I found that piece to be a base for further style search.

so thats it. time went quick. Good time, good people, good places.

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...reasons to go to Tauranga again.

In 2010 I hope to do a lot of travelling around NZ and globe.

There are a few destinations that I want to visit: Queenstown, New Plymouth , Taupo and so on.

Travellng is a great source of idias and inspiration.

on the photo - mt. Maunganui 2009