Waxing Philisophic...
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- rasko40
well for me its kind of easy, I was into graffiti since an early age, its kind of second nature to put something on a wall, whether its any good or not is a different story I just enjoy putting it there, and I enjoy seeing it in public spaces and peoples reactions to it, either good or bad. So in that sense I'm stuck with this 'getting up' mentality which is really a kind of destructive force. Now since I'm not just a mindless vandal and I have ideas concerning public space and perhaps other issues I would want to create something with not so much a message but just something that raises an issue, a signifier, something that simply makes people think, now whether they think this way or that is their choice but so long as the act of consideration has been placed in their head then thats really job done.
But I dont think of myself as someone who is generously giving some amazing gift to the masses, I rather create for the people who are into it and fuck what the rest think, I get a personal satisfaction from it aswell which could be seen as selfish perhaps, but its nice if someone gets inspired.
As far as professional work goes its just a job to me at the moment, perhaps when I get a job at somewhere I like then it will be different (hopefully). And I would actually rather work for somewhere that had a social concious, but thats unlikely.
I wouldn't get caught up in trying to work against a capitalist society unless you are really prepared to give up everything and grow your own vegatables and shit, you cant really beat a system your so deeply a part of, and I dont know shit about growing vegatables.