Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Reply to Brancusi (comment on previous post)

Comment from Brancusi:

"Now you've got my attention, what are the works that make yours and Bansky's similar? Please don't leave me with a cliffhanger like this! This internet is so interesting and eye-opening, so is this generation, I share your surprise at the freedom to draw on the streets (it is legal right?)
Tell me more please:D
Brancusi"


Good friend, so glad to hear from you! Are you still not opening to public that wonderful collection of works of yours? I do like your abstraction a lot you know.

I do think that there isn’t a specific work of Banksy’s and mine that are similar, but rather the idea and concept behind most of his works. It is clear to me that Banksy and I share a very similar nature. We do not like to be confined to common conventions and we have expressed it in our art.


Graffiti in the modern world is the epitome of freedom, in which no surface is forbidden as long as you can reach it. And in America, it is legal! I find that quite similar in the way my paintings are executed: all canvas surface is fair game as long as I can get the paint there. The issues raised in Banksy’s art are challenges to the governing organization, highlighting questionable policies and points of views. I see this as a rebellious attitude towards societal conventions and I must say I approve of him.

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