When you do it illegally you have a certain feeling, one night you are angry and the piece will come out angry. A common person won’t understand it, but the letters, the lines that you do, they are from an angry person. If you are easy and quiet, you also can see it. You make softer lines. Graffiti represents you, it represents your feelings. If you are angry, you can’t start fighting with people, you can’t hurt your girlfriend or your parents, you can’t go robbing a bank. And so you go painting because you have this discomfort to take off your body…Graffiti represents the life style of that particular moment for sure. How you think reflects the way you do it, the actions you do, the spaces you take - Renok

There are many people that don’t even know my real name. People get to know me also if not physically. This is weird, but gives me satisfaction. I meet my friends on the streets. I walk on the streets and I think “Oh nice, there is Philo, Mirics, Deps” - Renok

Before I had other tags that I won’t tell you… But I found mine in the summer’99. It was out of coincidence, while talking with some friends, looking for a signature…it had beautiful letters. There isn’t a special reason. I liked how it sounded… I looked for something original, something that nobody had. And slowly I felt it was mine. At the beginning it looked as a not existing word, meaningless… Then slowly, by writing it all the time, it becomes something - Renok

THESIS ABOUT EUROPEAN GRAFFITI WRITERS WITH RENOK, HERO, PHILO, RAW, EDGE, LUTHER, HIROCK, MIRICS, MARS, TWICE, GEAR, SOME, REVS AND ASO.

Some trains are kind of worth more. When writers meet they talk about different trains and different train yards where they’ve been. When you meet a new writer, you always have some places or trains to identify with and talk around. Local trains are generally more worth painting. For example the old Dutch banana train (the yellow one floor train called ‘doggie’), the Spanish ‘mirror trains’, Berlin’s yellow subway, Southern Sweden’s purple trains or Danish’s old red S-train. People used to go to Copenhagen just to paint that one. [Aso – 26, Stockholm]



Master Thesis :

Behind the tag : A journey with the graffiti writers of European walls (Pdf file)

Author : Silvia Pietrosanti

MSc European Communication Studies

Graduate School of Communication

Amsterdam, June 2010

Source : UvA Scripties Online