Graffiti

OPen

Project:

Graffiti

Painting

View Live Version

Graffiti

Project

Graffiti

Year

1993 - ...

Type of project

Street Art

Location

Various Locations

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved hiphop culture, and graffiti as a big part of that. I started a rap group with my brother when I was twelve, which was my very first musical endeavour. Around the same time I was part of a breakdance group, and I took my first steps as a graffiti artist. It was around the time Das EFX was popular, with their song “Straight from da sewa” being my favourite. So taking the name “Sewa” as my graffiti alias was a logical step.

Starting with sketches in my first blackbook, and some tags on electrical units around the neighbourhood, I soon started painting large scale pieces on the local walls of fame, in the Mheenpark graffiti wall and the old and broken down Ekro slaughterhouse walls in my hometown Apeldoorn.

“Whether playing ball or bobbing in the hall, Or just writing my name in graffiti on the wall” (Eric B & Rakim, 1986)

My love for graffiti endured through high school and into art school, and my endeavors became more adventurous. First by painting walls along the train tracks, and later by painting trains in the nightly yards around The Netherlands, I strove to get my name up. Or rather, names. Because I’d long ago dropped the name of Sewa in favour of aliases based upon my favorite Mathematicians, Physicists and ofcourse characters from gangster movies.

‍

No items found.

I still love graffiti in it’s many forms. And I prefer the hardcore oldschool leaning artists like Swet and Ces53. Like KRS ONE said in 1995, “I got twenty-five cans in my knapsack, crossin out the wick-wack, puttin up my name with a fat cap”.

No items found.