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While carrying on graffiti for full thirteen years since 2001, I have got sympathy and pride for the culture I belong engraved deeply in my heart. Some people around me have left their own culture for an ordinary life because of a worry in difficult circumstances, their oncoming years or the future, and others have transferred to the area which would solve financial problems. Someone has talked about graffiti as if it were a culture of the moment when young, and another has claimed to head for a more valuable or public culture. As the stance being still here, however, I understand their changes sometimes and feel an ambiguous emotion like betrayal other times.
From this, I simply made up a piece of writing to represent myself with its feelings one day. This was just written as ‘The Graffiti Writer’, which is a common description with the meaning of ‘one who does graffiti’ used usually by those who did graffiti once in America and Europe as its root. However, this is the word which urges self-respect to the title from my colleagues who have conducted graffiti in this country for a long time, as well as which shouts at me.
This large scale of graffiti exhibition is not held in Korea until full thirteen years have passed. Still what I want to say is graffiti charm, and the pride and confidence of a culture which I have done. While Banksy in Britain depicts humorous expression and resistance, and a cry for freedom in his every work, what I want in Korea of a barren land in terms of graffiti seems to be an understanding of expressive and cultural diversity. Graffiti is my only and most favorite culture, and being a graffiti writer is the reason of my happiness all the time.