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“I’m a new voice, writing a new chapter on the movement told to me directly by female gra⇞㚊ti and street artists themselves.” Sian
First of all congratulations on the amazing female empowerment movement you have started in the art world. You are educating people in a very powerful way about the struggle for creative space, and lack of recognition faced by women street artists. Can you please tell me what inspired this creative journey? Alexandra
Over the past 16 years I’ve lived around the world in four di erent countries, 5 major cities where I casually documented gra ti and street art. However, not until four years ago, while walking down the street in Queens to explore urban art mecca 5 Pointz, did it occur to me that women could be responsible for some of the illegal or legal street art that I’d been photographing. That day I saw two young women standing before me with spray paint cans in hand, painting a wall in Queens. It was like I was staring at aliens, at something I’d never seen before and I got super excited! My mind started racing with questions: what were they doing there? How did they know each other? Were there other women doing this as well? Am I the last one to nd out that women are actually part of this culture? I, like