I need an outlet after being repressed for so many years and I love the idea of random people being faced with what I've been creating in the darkness of the night. I make no attempts to hide the fact that it's also a form of therapeutic self-help. I don't really fit in anywhere.Ĭan you elaborate on what else motivates you-aside from wanting to piss off homophobes?
I just don't feel at home in the stereotypical gay scene, where it's all ABBA, Eurovision, glitter and glam. And then all of the sudden you can't really keep monopolizing the tough guy image, can you? It nags at their prejudices, because if a gay guy like me can go out and paint a window-down, anyone can do it. A lot of graffiti artists view trains as one of the most hardcore spots to tag. I also kind of wanted to piss off the rest of the street art community, particularly the ones who have a problem with gays. I'm actively trying to provoke them and I'm doing it by transforming gay bashing into straight bashing, by slathering homosexuality all over, and shoving it in their faces. Now my sketches have made their way on to stickers, walls, and trains all over town.īut looking at your latest pieces, it seems like the church is far from being your only target. The ideas kept coming to me, one after the other. I drew a pastor wearing rainbow sunglasses, and then came the dick. Instead of going out and like, burning down a church, I started drawing for real. I was so pissed off and frustrated listening to all these ministers fighting against it that I just had to find a way to express it. I was already tagging by then, but I never did anything with the ideas until 2012, when we had the whole debate about gay weddings in Denmark. My temperament began to change and these ideas just started growing in my head. When I finally came out in 2008, it sparked a reaction in me. Rock bottom for me was praying that God would turn me straight. For a long time, I repressed my sexuality. Well, if we're going to go all the way back to the beginning, it probably started with me going to a Christian school and being brought up with values that didn't exactly harmonize with being gay. Tell us a bit about how you got started with all of this. Creatively, I'm going through a really active period right now.
I was out last night tagging a spot with some dicks and arses.