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Loading ...272 views - No Comments - February 13th, 2008 by Mr.Baaps
Walking down the streets of downtown Oakland in California, I see the everyday life of everyday people doing their everyday thing. People who live in this area know that the scenery do not change much; unless for some special days like holidays. But in an ordinary morning day, you usually see the same decor, same streets, same buildings, and same people going to work to start their day. The same cars are taking off from the same parking lots to disappear into the same empty streets where the same homeless people reside. The streets are the homes of the homeless people and the street walls are the canvases of the tags and graffiti artists that no one seems to know who they are.
I remember many times walking down the streets and seeing graffiti arts that catch my eyes because I love art, and the next day when I pass the same street expecting to see the same strange peace some art form and it’s gone. Looks like soon as the art is created, somebody else come remove it from the wall. Few days later the same process repeats again. New graffiti are created and get removed the next day. Other people who pass through the streets do not seem to be bothered by the short life that form of art, but me. Nobody ask questions or say anything about the graffiti. Often times I witnessed graffiti being removed by people during the daytime. But it’s very rare to catch somebody making the art.
This time I ran into one of the mysterious artists while his was creating his wild master piece. It was in a brought day light, in the streets of downtown where, Iyan, a talented young man was showing his skills through a rich palette of street art that he was dressing up the wall with. I came closer to the artist to say what’s up and to talk about hi beautiful work, then I found out that Iyan is an artist from Los Angeles who is giving permission to mess up the wall. Then I understood why he did dare signed his autograph on that wall in a brought day light in front of anybody.
In the same street where Iyan was doing his work, there were some graffiti removed from the wall alongside the one Iyan was using. But unlike him, the authors of those removed graffiti can never been caught doing in their thang at daytime. That’s why I call graffiti makers the “Invisible artists”.
If you love graffiti art like I do, stay tuned on makodef.com, we will bring you some more invisible artists with crazy skill. In case you want to express a message through art and need an artist for that, let us know and we will hook you up talented artists like Iyan, and if you know an artist or you are a graffiti artist yourself, contact us and share your work with Makodef Magazine.
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