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March 7, 2004
Profile: Slobben
Age: 23
Hometown: Arendal, Norway
Where do you now live?: Trondheim, also in Norway
Where would you most like to live?: Someplace with an existing streetart scene.
Who was your first "hero" in life?: My grandfather.
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: Just to have a good time.
What is your favorite color?: Blue
Who (or what) do you love?: My family and friends?
Who and/or what are some of your influences?
The internet is a great source of inspiration. Also books, magazines, my mom's old photo-albums and life in general.
What other artists do you most admire?
Decline, a guy putting up massive amounts of hand-drawn stickers around here. Also the boys and girls at Stencilrevolution.com, and all the artists featured on this site.
How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?
I make stencils out of pictures and drawings I find interesting. I don't have a strong message with what I do, I just want to brighten up the boring streets a little. I paint on a lot of different things, all have in common that they are pretty easy to remove. For the streets I mostly paint on stickers, legoboards, styrofoam, vinyl records, tiles, cardboard and wooden boards. Then if someone hates it, they can just take it down instead of calling the cops. If people like some of my stuff, it's also easy to take it home. I hope my vinyls won't hang on the walls for ever. Most of the people I'm talking to about this don't even know how a stencil works, so most of the time I'm trying to explain how I do it rather than why I do it.
What other talent would most like to have?
I wish I had a talent for hand- drawing.
What do you fear the most?
Impotence
What is your greatest ambition?
To develop my skills. Constantly getting better at whatever I'm trying to do.
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