Apex interview
Here is an interview with graffiti artist Apex from San Francisco.
FC: Where are you from? Tell us about your beginnings and your discovery of graffiti.
i was born and raised in san francisco, california, usa. I entered the world of writing at a very young age, san francisco was saturated with writing in the 80’s, it was great.
FC: What’s the meaning of your name?
a·pex (pks)
n. pl. a·pex·es or a·pi·ces (p-sz, p-)
1. The highest point; the vertex: the apex of a triangle; the apex of a hill.
2. The point of culmination. See Synonyms at summit.
3. The usually pointed end of an object; the tip: the apex of a leaf.
i would just like to see if i could ever reach my apex.
FC: What was the interest in art and what lead you to create all those things?
my interest in art just came to me, i did’nt really look for it. It grew out of me at a very young age. I had to create.
FC: Tell us about the graffiti scene from your town?
San francisco’s writing scene is always changing. A lot of people move here, get up, then leave, and the locals keep doing there thing or not. San francisco is a little New York on the west coast, its dope.
FC: How would you define your work and what inspires you?
The best way to define my work in general writing terms, one can call it superburners. everything in the world inspires me, im just a filter for life to flow threw until it reaches a surface.
FC : Are you in anyway linked to hip hop ?
Hip Hop…well i grew up with it, there are a lot of dope hip hop guys around the San francisco Bay Area that I know. Writing has become one of the elements, so that is another way that im part of hip hop. do i do any other part of hip hop, no, i just stick to what im good at.
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