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Mad C paints a wall at 5Pointz

I went back to 5Pointz today to just hang out and relaxe a little bit. I met Claudia aka "Mad C" again. Mad C is a 25 year old girl from Germany currently doing an internship in New York. She started to paint Graffiti back in 1996 and happend to meet some people, who knew some people, who knew some people (and so on) who got her in touch with the crew of 5Pointz. I wrote about them in yesterdays post.
Anyway, after showing some pictures of pieces she did she was allowed to paint a wall on the rooftop of this old factory building. She started painting yesterday, continued today and will finish in time for tomorrows rooftop party over there. She is really talented. It's amazing which things you can paint and write on a wall with cans of spray! By the way, check out the website of Mad C with pictures of walls, sketches and stickers she did. Regarding the spray: Claudia told me that it's kind of hard to get the necessary amount of cans nowadays because of certain restrictions. She went to buy them together with her brother who is visiting at the moment. The aerosol cans where locked behing bars in the store, she was asked what these colors will be used for and had to show her ID. Well I guess New York is a branded kid concerning Graffiti although Graffiti can be seen on the streets very rarly nowadays. It's not like in those movies from which Europeans get there knowledge about New York. Time changed, so did the appearance of the streets. 5Pointz is one of the rare places were Graffiti is legal (don't go there and start painting, you have to make an appointment first) and it's a good spot to meet some old timers. Graffiti writers who already started back in the 70ties. I'll definitly come back to hang out and watch living art.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on July 3, 2005 11:23 PM