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March 4, 2004
Profile: le pigeon
Age: 24
Hometown: Grenoble (France)
Where do you now live?: Grenoble (France)
Where would you most like to live?: Trafalgar Square (London)
Who was your first "hero" in life?: My father
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: to feed my home pigeon, and clean the roof where they live.
What is your favorite color?: grey
Who (or what) do you love?: walking at night time
Why pigeons?
Because they are dirty, nobody like them, because everybody us to live with them (in the city) and with the time had completly forgotten that they are here (banality), for me pigeon is like graffiti . I think at this time everybody to not take care about tag, it became usual.
Who and/or what are some of your influences?
The travel
What other artists do you most admire?
Philippe Meste, David linch, Larry clark, jean michel basquiat, Chilly Gonzales,Renaud sechan, O'clock, Quentin tarantino, Geoff Mc Fetridge, Dondy white, henry chalfant, Jim jarmush.
How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?
I am doing "pigeon" to open your eyes, and make you discover what is around you everyday that you have forgotten to see : Roofs, walls, abandonned spaces, bridges, light roads etc..
What other talent would most like to have?
I do not consider "pigeon" like a talent" , but i would like to ride bycicle without no hands.
What do you fear the most?
TV
What is your greatest ambition?
That everybody be more ambitious.
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