HUBIN Magazine No.1 2013 | Page 98

Being brought up in a vexatious environment, crimes and broken ideologies are not strange to him. “Drugs and danger were simply made available to me at a very young age,”the artist recalls. As an effect his pieces offers knowledge culminated from the streets; the kind of knowledge that ignites resistance to mere absorption of truth, and more so about the manipulation of available chances to stir a given circumstance. The artist states, “When you ain’t got the means to keep yourself safe, you have to keep your awareness as strong as you can. I look to the streets and see nothing but violence. So I can’t really say I am inspired by the streets because I see nothing inspiring about it at all.” 93 HUBIN MAGAZINE