This is one of my earlier big oil on canvas paintings from 2014, back when I was about to finish the Academy of Fine Arts. It is part of my trayectory in abstracting Graffiti and finding a contemporary form that depicts the reality of our present world. You can see the influences of both surrealism and Graffiti. Salvador Dali obviously has been my strongest surrealist influences, as his castle had been one of the first big museums I was able to visit back in 2004. The parents of my earliest spanish childhood friend took me to Figueres / Spain, and I spent the whole day in Dalis museum, overwhelmed by the vast creativity of this genius.
In Graffiti I started early to neglect the rules, strongly followed by some graffiti artists. I don't like to blindly follow old rules and orders, even more in my art. Outlines, rules for fill-ins, highlights etc are, in my artistic universe, just early design sets invented by early graffiti pioneers like Seen and others. For me it is on the new generation to break and neglect these rules to find our appropriate setup to represent the present state of Graffiti and the present world.
