Street Art that resonates

Making art and exploring themes that resonates with people and connects with them emotionally, is something that I have always strived for. When random members of the public stop, cheer and applaud in groups, upon seeing a stencil revealing itself, or when you have a large group of random passersby stopping and wanting to help to hold the stencil whilst you paint, you know there is something special happening. Thank you to the guys outside of the Prince of Wales pub that cheered us the other day. Thank you to the large group of lads coming out of the mosque that helped with the Muhammad Ali stencils back in Ramadan. It helps us, as artists, reconnect with the reasons why we do what we do.

Saying things that the people might be feeling and then seeing it visualised on street corners is truly something liberating for society. It says something about ownership and control over the city and public space, about the power we have- or the lack of it, that inherently, we feel we have that leads us to become apathetic.

Responding to different communities in different ways is an art in itself that needs to be explored more. Quite often the most obvious ways of connecting with people aren't always the best ones, as i have learnt from my experiences. It's often the most unlikely and unexpected parallels we have that really connect us as human beings.

Art needs to spill outside of the conventional, confined spaces into our daily lives and every city's walls need to speak and breathe.

Back in 2016, this piece above was painted in Moseley, Birmingham.