BIOR - interview
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1. Could you please introduce yourself? Tell us a few words about yourself.
I am an author of various surfaces covered by paint, patterns and writings…
2. Apart from hundreds of pieces and tags, you paint expressive abstract paintings as well as write poems. How much of a writer is in you when painting on canvas or writing on paper?
I don’t even know anymore how much of this or that is in me. I am actually glad to not be defined. I must have exceeded the scope of a writer, in the conservative meaning of the word, a long time ago. At the same time the definitions of graffiti and writer as such have no boundaries, the possibilities are infinite…Gradually I am accepting the symbiosis of these seemingly disparate disciplines. In fact, even painting on the wall is a sort of poetry. And the processes of painting and writing are identical, only the form is different. What matters is to be creative, to go through the catharsis that comes with something being born inside you and the subsequent reflection in the mirror-wall, on the paper, anywhere…
3. You are a Prague graffiti veteran. How would you compare our current scene to the one in the nineties?
Each period is unique. In many things we were the first, we expressed them and tried them first. We were not even twenty and we were on the imaginary peak of the scene. Today, I feel that across the generations in Prague now, there are, say, three times as many writers as ten years ago. And despite all the imperfections, I appreciate the diversity and creativity of the scene.
4. Why do you think that for the majority of people graffiti is simply a soulless repetition of their name?
I consider these objections pseudo-intellectual prejudices of the petty bourgeois. Personally, I practise name repetition as a great form of meditation, relaxing the stressed mind. It is only in total ‘soullessness’ that I often discover the spirit - spirituality, sensitivity to life and a certain fulfilment.
5. Which town would you choose to live in if you couldn’t live in Prague and why?
Luckily I can still live here…
