The Day in the Lyfe Team caught up with graffiti writer Zed from Lithuania
M – What do you write and when did you start all this graffiti thing?
ola, i am zed or zedo or z or call it as you like. I did start my sketching sessions and shit in 1998, then i stopped for some years and started searching for ideas in 2001 2002. These were the years when i also started to go out to the streets. In the place where i live, in Lithuania there were a lot of barriers for writing graffiti, there were no possible places to get paint suitable for quality works and. It may sound unbelievable, but the first graffiti shop or lets say a specialized paint shop opened in 2000 or 2001, i dont remember now, it was NASA shop. So i remember first buying montana after all the scrappy paint i used. That was a good paint and that was in Lithuania, so i started to go to the streets more..that was my poor beginning.
M – Why you don‘t belong to any crew?Well, i decided to go this way… i feel better working alone, i dont even like companys, i never had a crew i could count on or trust and i think going alone makes you more productive, it feels good for me…i love to feel the night when im out, to feel all the components of the process, i hate when someone is jumping all around my eyes i just love to be with myself. I had a crew, it was a big crew, really big crew, i founded it in 2002 i think,the team, it was called AC (art cowboys, art criminals, acid colors or as you just wish) and we were located in various citys of the country and even abroad. But sometimes things happens and you decide to change shit. Thats what i did, it was in 2006 as i remember. All that time im alone, and i am sure i will be in the future. I just feel right like that…its a good feeling to be independent and free. But sometimes people contacts me, we go to bomb together from time to time, not too often…
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