my name is safe and my parents are here
in the audience today they’re happy for
two reasons first of all that I’m on
stage and second of all they don’t have
to pay tuition again okay so my journey
started with graffiti and graffiti is a
rejected form a rejected art form that
society did not accept and this is I’m
talking about 15 years ago
I’m not old I’m 27 but I started 15
years ago I listen to punk and metal
music and we were social outcasts me and
this group of people and we wanted to be
heard and nobody was giving us that that
platform so we decided we’d do it
ourselves we’re gonna go onto the
streets and we’re gonna spray paint our
names and big just like advertisements
do it for five years that’s what we did
and it worked great these companies
started to recognize who we are people
started knowing who’s safe is he’s a
capable artist some thought it’s
vandalism some thought it’s a form of
art the media – of course the media is
never accurate we captured in an
audience there they know who we are and
we had to tell them something before I
jump into that the importance of
questioning and questions is what took
my graffiti 15 years ago from doing
illegal to a.m. we’re feeding on the
streets all the way to right now TEDx
and other successful events the driver
of all the key engine driver of this
progression was I raised questions and
that’s what this discussion is going to
be about and I’m hoping that this
presentation will be a live illustration
to you on how you can use questioning to
improve your lives and you can improve
the surrounding environment and the
world we live in how can they know about
me that’s the graffiti we just went out
wrote our names night after night after
night just what advertisements do all
these deodorants and all these cars and
all these banks you keep seeing them
over and over and over and that’s how
advertisement works we’re 13 14 15 at
this foot at this age and we just kept
writing our names around
with without permission and it raised
hype it was on it was on newspapers and
people started asking questions who was
safe so now it’s time to show them who’s
safe and his gang is not gang sorry it’s
crew we grew up right so we started
doing something called street art street
art is the natural evolutionary from
graffiti now as I said earlier we have
an audience and I have to tell them
something but what do I tell them you
know graffiti is illegal so when you
have to play on these border lines you
become aware of the system you become
aware of what laws are and what
regulates things so I I had to research
and I had to look into topics that I can
portray in my street art and it happened
to be socio-political discussions so
this is one of my first artworks
it’s called Mickey and poor man Minnie
and poor man sorry this was exhibited at
Gallery and what I was trying to say
here now I’m communicating rather than
advertising myself I’m communicating to
them look there’s an issue in the world
we’re not taking good care of off of the
people living in poverty we just keep
sending wrong hives and wrong media
towards on how to address these things
so I made an artwork about it but then I
wanted to define these hard beliefs
people had people had beliefs and
institutions but I started to question
myself are these authentic institutions
or not now keep in mind a question is as
important as the answer and a question
is not just a set of words put in to
derive information a question is a
journey a question will take you from
point A to point B you’re gonna
experiment you’re going to educate
yourself you’re going to research you’re
gonna think and you’re gonna come to a
conclusion I turn trash i define trash
to become something valuable and
something creative and something pretty
to look at now what is trash it’s trash
just the end of a cycle of an object
I don’t know but what I did know is I
can
I took trash and I broke the definition
of it and created this artwork which
gave it a meaning a purpose and a value
and shall show people how you can
recycle outside the box you can recycle
in many ways so we started doing more
these are a couple of more installations
I started turning the trash into
bouquets of flower and just you know
trash is something we put on the side
and we don’t want people to see it and
what I wanted to do with this series is
I want it to bring that trash and put it
on people’s walls and how can I do that
who would want to pay trash on their
walls one guest has come surprisingly a
lot of people do so we started doing the
series and it kicked well it went well
yet again it’s not enough so we’ll take
a couple steps back first with graffiti
I wanted to tell them Who I am
then I asked myself what can I tell them
so I started looking into politics and
socio social conditions and discussing
that and then I asked myself the
question how can I contribute back to
society the tribution doesn’t only have
to be donation it could be in for
informative it can be raising awareness
it could be recycling so we did that now
what’s next now we started I started
driving into the conceptual form of Arts
now I’m gonna raise the questions in the
viewers mind rather than me giving them
a statement or an answer so conceptual
arts with conceptual arts I use the
three-dimensional perspective because it
enables me to express more and enables
me to give out more rather than a
two-dimensional you can do a lot more
with the three-dimensional this is a
piece and with my conceptual art pieces
I don’t give any interpretation of what
my artwork is supposed to be about this
is up for the audience to look at and
they will formulate their own questions
now why did I want to pursue that path I
wanted people to raise the question
while looking at the artwork because
when they raise the question and they go
seek the answer it’s gonna stick for
much longer rather than rather than just
a shock value or a beauty value of
decorative space of course you know you
turn on the news it’s it’s it’s some
good news but it’s a lot of bad news and
I grew up in a household where news news
channels were always on so I always like
to tackle things I listen to on the news
this next piece
it’s called children of rubble and again
I’ll leave it for interpretation on how
you perceive it and raise questions and
have it as a discussion points a lot of
my collectors they like to buy my
artwork not because they want to
decorate a space on their wall it’s
because they want to put something that
instigates discussions and discussions
gets people further collectively as a
species if we ask questions we can get
but we can progress better now remember
there’s good questions and there’s bad
questions bad questions for the for the
example the people who invented the
flamethrower they asked themselves how
can we burn a bunch of people from a
distance that’s a bad question a good
question could be anything for how can I
improve the environments how can I help
myself and how can I help others I hope
that this little story it’s not little
it’s 15 years but it will summarize in
to 15 minutes can show you how you can
take questioning and make your life
better you can make society better and
you can make the planet better
I request you before I finish this
discussion to go out and always have the
questions in mind that how can I make
things better and by asking the question
you’re going to become more educated and
you’re going to become a more well more
informed person and you’re going to be
able to improve your life and the ones
around you thank you
you
in the audience today they’re happy for
two reasons first of all that I’m on
stage and second of all they don’t have
to pay tuition again okay so my journey
started with graffiti and graffiti is a
rejected form a rejected art form that
society did not accept and this is I’m
talking about 15 years ago
I’m not old I’m 27 but I started 15
years ago I listen to punk and metal
music and we were social outcasts me and
this group of people and we wanted to be
heard and nobody was giving us that that
platform so we decided we’d do it
ourselves we’re gonna go onto the
streets and we’re gonna spray paint our
names and big just like advertisements
do it for five years that’s what we did
and it worked great these companies
started to recognize who we are people
started knowing who’s safe is he’s a
capable artist some thought it’s
vandalism some thought it’s a form of
art the media – of course the media is
never accurate we captured in an
audience there they know who we are and
we had to tell them something before I
jump into that the importance of
questioning and questions is what took
my graffiti 15 years ago from doing
illegal to a.m. we’re feeding on the
streets all the way to right now TEDx
and other successful events the driver
of all the key engine driver of this
progression was I raised questions and
that’s what this discussion is going to
be about and I’m hoping that this
presentation will be a live illustration
to you on how you can use questioning to
improve your lives and you can improve
the surrounding environment and the
world we live in how can they know about
me that’s the graffiti we just went out
wrote our names night after night after
night just what advertisements do all
these deodorants and all these cars and
all these banks you keep seeing them
over and over and over and that’s how
advertisement works we’re 13 14 15 at
this foot at this age and we just kept
writing our names around
with without permission and it raised
hype it was on it was on newspapers and
people started asking questions who was
safe so now it’s time to show them who’s
safe and his gang is not gang sorry it’s
crew we grew up right so we started
doing something called street art street
art is the natural evolutionary from
graffiti now as I said earlier we have
an audience and I have to tell them
something but what do I tell them you
know graffiti is illegal so when you
have to play on these border lines you
become aware of the system you become
aware of what laws are and what
regulates things so I I had to research
and I had to look into topics that I can
portray in my street art and it happened
to be socio-political discussions so
this is one of my first artworks
it’s called Mickey and poor man Minnie
and poor man sorry this was exhibited at
Gallery and what I was trying to say
here now I’m communicating rather than
advertising myself I’m communicating to
them look there’s an issue in the world
we’re not taking good care of off of the
people living in poverty we just keep
sending wrong hives and wrong media
towards on how to address these things
so I made an artwork about it but then I
wanted to define these hard beliefs
people had people had beliefs and
institutions but I started to question
myself are these authentic institutions
or not now keep in mind a question is as
important as the answer and a question
is not just a set of words put in to
derive information a question is a
journey a question will take you from
point A to point B you’re gonna
experiment you’re going to educate
yourself you’re going to research you’re
gonna think and you’re gonna come to a
conclusion I turn trash i define trash
to become something valuable and
something creative and something pretty
to look at now what is trash it’s trash
just the end of a cycle of an object
I don’t know but what I did know is I
can
I took trash and I broke the definition
of it and created this artwork which
gave it a meaning a purpose and a value
and shall show people how you can
recycle outside the box you can recycle
in many ways so we started doing more
these are a couple of more installations
I started turning the trash into
bouquets of flower and just you know
trash is something we put on the side
and we don’t want people to see it and
what I wanted to do with this series is
I want it to bring that trash and put it
on people’s walls and how can I do that
who would want to pay trash on their
walls one guest has come surprisingly a
lot of people do so we started doing the
series and it kicked well it went well
yet again it’s not enough so we’ll take
a couple steps back first with graffiti
I wanted to tell them Who I am
then I asked myself what can I tell them
so I started looking into politics and
socio social conditions and discussing
that and then I asked myself the
question how can I contribute back to
society the tribution doesn’t only have
to be donation it could be in for
informative it can be raising awareness
it could be recycling so we did that now
what’s next now we started I started
driving into the conceptual form of Arts
now I’m gonna raise the questions in the
viewers mind rather than me giving them
a statement or an answer so conceptual
arts with conceptual arts I use the
three-dimensional perspective because it
enables me to express more and enables
me to give out more rather than a
two-dimensional you can do a lot more
with the three-dimensional this is a
piece and with my conceptual art pieces
I don’t give any interpretation of what
my artwork is supposed to be about this
is up for the audience to look at and
they will formulate their own questions
now why did I want to pursue that path I
wanted people to raise the question
while looking at the artwork because
when they raise the question and they go
seek the answer it’s gonna stick for
much longer rather than rather than just
a shock value or a beauty value of
decorative space of course you know you
turn on the news it’s it’s it’s some
good news but it’s a lot of bad news and
I grew up in a household where news news
channels were always on so I always like
to tackle things I listen to on the news
this next piece
it’s called children of rubble and again
I’ll leave it for interpretation on how
you perceive it and raise questions and
have it as a discussion points a lot of
my collectors they like to buy my
artwork not because they want to
decorate a space on their wall it’s
because they want to put something that
instigates discussions and discussions
gets people further collectively as a
species if we ask questions we can get
but we can progress better now remember
there’s good questions and there’s bad
questions bad questions for the for the
example the people who invented the
flamethrower they asked themselves how
can we burn a bunch of people from a
distance that’s a bad question a good
question could be anything for how can I
improve the environments how can I help
myself and how can I help others I hope
that this little story it’s not little
it’s 15 years but it will summarize in
to 15 minutes can show you how you can
take questioning and make your life
better you can make society better and
you can make the planet better
I request you before I finish this
discussion to go out and always have the
questions in mind that how can I make
things better and by asking the question
you’re going to become more educated and
you’re going to become a more well more
informed person and you’re going to be
able to improve your life and the ones
around you thank you
you
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