• May 8, 2003
  • Posted by Marc

Shes54 - The VitalsAge:

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Shes54 - The Vitals


Age: 24
Hometown: Utrecht
Where
do you now live?:
Utrecht
How long have you been creating street
art?:
5 years
What did you do last night?: helped a friend
pasting a couple of posters, went to a bar, had a long walk home, sleep
/>What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: greek or italian
food
Who is your favorite fictional character?: "http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/spongebob/index.jhtml;jsessionid=N4A
NTLUEGOWFWCQBAFJHBMQ?_requestid=243400">spouge bob
or the ones of "http://www.j.jarvis1.btinternet.co.uk/jamesjarvis/">James Jarvis or href= "http://www.buffmonster.com/">buffmonster
What do you
currently have in your pockets?:
Nothing to be honest, I’am at home
/>If you were given “more time,” what would you do with it?: Draw more
/>Who do you love?: My girl,my family,best friends,my markers & my
dolls

Shes54 - The A’s to Our Q’s:


Wooster: How
did you get started in creating art for the street?

Shes54:
When I was about 11 years my grandmother took me to a exabition of New York
graffiti artist in “het Groninger
museum
” in Groningen.When I got home a few days later my grandma sended a
little blackbook and a postcard of “Quik” by mail.Thats how I first got invold
with graffiti. Stickers an posters came years later, around 98/99 when I went to
art-academie and putted posters up in the streets for a asingment called:“Your
favourite place”,It feld really good so I continieud the project.

/>Wooster:
What other street artists do you most admire and why?

/>Shes54: I love people who have a real pure and clear style, a original
handwriting and who are spontanious in ther work like: "http://www.davewarnke.com/intro.swf">Dave Warnke, Bild from Berlin, href= "http://deace.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=315">Cha noir, "http://www.mysteriousal.com/">Mysterious Al, "http://www.basquiat.net/">Jean Michel Basqiat, and all kids that do crayon
drawings in the streets

Wooster: What’s your favorite city,
neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?

/>Shes54: Amsterdam

Wooster: What inspires you now?
/>
Shes54: Walking in the dark while listening to "http://www.djshadow.com/">Dj Shadows track:Six days.Waking up with "http://www.grandmasterflash.com/">Grandmaster Flash’s track:The message.
Television,coffee,beer,organic concrete shapes.

Wooster: What
are you currently working on?  Can you give us a sneak peek?

/>Shes54: Make a trip across Europe this summer. Working on a childrens
book.