Some Old Graffiti and a New Interview
I painted this "GNT-AK" piece in 1990.
"GNT" is short for Giant and "AK", Aerosol Kings, was a crew from NYC that I had just become part of. AK was started by Nic 1, a mentor to AGREE who then mentored me. It was painted in Albuquerque at a spot we called "Monolithic". I learned how to piece there. This was one of the first pieces I did using NY thin caps or "Liquid-Tex" caps as we called them, or "phantoms" as our friends in San Diego called them. We had to steal them from cans of spray adhesive we'd find at art supply stores before our friends in San Diego hooked us up with big bags of them. I used cheap K-Mart silver for the fill-in and outlined it with Krylon True Blue, a favorite combination. I used up some scrap cans of florescent paint in the background. And I think that's the only time I've ever done my outline fat-to-thin like that. It's weird. I used a "spitter cap" for the electricity effect and the tiny flare lines in the sparkle effects. I'll explain how to make a spitter at another time. And how about those shelltoe Adidas with fat laces and the Bones t-shirt I was wearing? I had such a weird sense of style.
Now fast forward 21 years and read this interview that FATCAP just posted. Stay up!