1985-The Sculpture Breakthrough
I got into an email exchange recently with a certain someone that was disputing my contribution and innovation with the sculptures. In the annals of book history none of us sculptors are regarded so I forgive the ignorance but I will drop a pearl for him and others. In 1984 True 222 (Phase2) created what is regarded as the first graffiti related sculpture, it was a large scale steel sculpture that was groundbreaking, it now sits in the Jacob Javits Center in NYC. This is the first large scale sculpture on record. He has told me that he had done a wooden sculpture back in the 70s as well. So I regard him as the first person to try sculpture. I come in second to that with the start of Wild Style letter sculptures in 1985. My work was focused on the direct and deliberate evolution of train pieces. The series that followed were all large train panel scale painted letters and eventually and rather quickly I became sort of a constructivist Graffiti writer and it showed in my works without deliniation from by Graff background, it was a natural evolution as one can see through the history of art and Graff. Ive been a sculptor going on 22 years I believe there is no one out there in our Graff culture who has focused commitment to sculpture in this manner, or articulated it through the many styles I have. Rammellzee was also exploring sculpture around this time but I am not certain of what it was or looked like, he also is highly regarded as a pioneer of sculptural letters. There are now many good sculptors finally jumping in from here to Europe who have taken the challenge of sculpting Graff, I encourage that and thrive on it, this is why I created the WU StyleWriter sculpture in Germany in order to publicly challenge writers and people alike. As for the discussion that prompted this posting I realize one thing that regardless of what is and who is popular, our history can and has been written by us for us and if this is a bit of HISTORY...so it is stated and WRITTEN.
Mare139 ROC RTW CIA TKA
Posted on October 03, 2007 at 09:21 AM | Comment (2 comments)
