It’s a small city with a somewhat vicious buff and pretty much all of the abandoned buildings get torn down immediately. Well, since around 2007, we have been steadily losing spots around town, and for those of you who know, it doesn’t make it any easier to be a writer here. What kind of spots have you been painting recently? How often do you paint? I feel like my shit was boring for so long that I just tried to jazz it up with wingdings and shit and I guess it paid off haha. I’m not really sure where it came from, or who really influenced it. Your pieces are well known for their wild fills how did that develop? The hood was on smash and I wanted to be part of the action. Of course, Sketch was super up in the most redic spots with wildstyle throwups that burned so hard. I’m pretty sure I still have the Bristol board that we doodled on together. He showed me how to do oneliner tags and throws, and just a bunch of other shit. Estr (Rifle) was the first already-established writer I had ever met in, I’m gonna say, late 2002. Well, my biggest influences, I’d have to say, were style master Sketch and Estr the 1st. Who influenced you, and your style development? Although Halifax breeds great writers, it’s hard to make a name for yourself out east, without traveling, so I try to get out at to a different province or city about once a year to jam and push the name a bit further. Aside from some cool scenic spots, the most exciting thing you might see in a day is a container ship roll in or out of the harbor, or some bums drinking fax on Barrington street. There isn’t a whole lot going on here, and when you are young and can choose between cities like Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal it only makes sense to go to one of those places, where shits always poppin’. I feel like it’s not hard to over look Halifax. The downtown core was smashed by HW and the surrounding lower income areas were smashed by CBU.ĭespite being the largest city on Canada’s east coast, Halifax often seems overlooked why is that? When we came on the scene, Halifax graffiti was bumpin’. I told them that, “I just write this on things,” And then they, too, jumped on board, and thus ABK was created. A few years later, in high school, I met some other people who (kind of the same scenario) saw me doodling my name and asked me what it was. It’s too bad he never stuck with it, he has sketches that burn most people around town today. I asked what he was doing and he said, “I don’t know, I just like this word,” so I figured I’d pick a word and try it out myself. I got into graff from seeing a friend of mine doodle on his notebook, in grade 7. How did you get into the scene, and what was it like when you were starting out? When I woke in the morning, the first word I saw on this handicap sticker that Code had on his wall was “space” so I gave it a try and the rest is history. I ended up staying up all night in Coder’s basement, trying to come up with a new name. I took some flack for a previous name that was too close (in letters) to another writer at the time. I don’t really count anything before that, as I had no idea what the hell I was doing (and still don’t) ha! I wrote a few different names before changing to Space in ’04. How long have you been writing, and what’s the history of your name?
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