yo yo yo...listen up darlings!

Today was sick!...in a good slangy way I mean :)

Beat Culture keeps making my stay here even more unique! I got to spray pain on a wall todaaay!

~ www.sprayboks.no ~

I got at the place 10 minutes before 9, so early. I was the first and got to talk a bit with the guy who came up with the idea for this nonconformist gallery for graffiti artists here in Kristiansand.

It's this warehouse that has a few rooms, in the first one black walls dripping with colorful paint at the base wait to be painted on. A smaller room for the clean art...canvases of stencils and sprayed portraits. Also...they are responsible for the vases that turn up through town, just black vases with dripping paint...so spontaneous, so beat.

Then they have rooms for storage and for chilling out on cold sofas surrounded by graffiti on the walls. They showed us a Power Point presentation of the beginning of the “trend”...by this American dude...who used to write his...name, actually his tag, and the number of his street: T..something 138...but of course wikipedia says nothing of the sort...so watevs...

They split us up into groups of 4-5 people and gave us a task...find your crew name, make a sketch and then get to work on the wall. My group...4 girls, one boy. Our name: NAKAN (the last letter of our first names)
Dominik drew up an awesome draft so we got our masks and colors and were ready to begin....of course the guy there first gave us a lesson on how to do what and when...

We drew the sketch; we filled the color, again the outline, effects, second outline, and more effects.


All in all it turned out pretty awesome as you can see for yourselves.



Our teacher’s kids were also there, getting a kick out of spraying vivid colors, watching the paint drip...drip...drip.


After immortalizing our spontaneous, fade away into black so that others may use the wall art...we all felt dizzy with fumes of spray, with a feeling of...oh yeah...this is a first! We thanked the kind artists for their time and walls and talent and our nice teacher Frida for this chance and went on our way.




Myself and April went shopping for gloves and then ended up in a bakery/cake shop... After all that “gangsta” activity we needed to feel girly and needed to fill our tummy as well :) We shared two pieces of cake...and I actually had cremsnit in Norway for all you Romanians at home :P

Now the sun is high, the ice melted and another group of people are showing off their talent on the black canvas of sprayboks...