Biography
Contact info..
1995
First contact
With graffiti the story starts in 1995 when, after visiting an architectural exposition on the south side of Rotterdam city in the Cruise Terminal, my dad went to take some photo’s at a nearby graffiti wall, the raw beauty of it all hit me head-on.
Most notable on these walls was the legendary Byz. with 3 (or more) really fresh burners.
2003
History lessons
Somewhere around this time I got a hold of an oldschool graffiti book that my dad picked up in NY back in ’79.
This changed my whole perspective on graffiti, documented in this book where the first step in the evolution from tags to pieces.. everybody was taggin up stuff and some people started to make their tags bigger, some put outlines on their tags and some started adding decorations around it.
This really made me reflect on how I build my pieces and it let me reflect on the importance of tags and good handwriting.
2004
Progress
Being kind of pigheaded/stubborn in a way I set a new course concerning my style development.. keeping away from all the standards and sort of deliberately making stuff that nobody could or would relate to :P after a while it got better and started to take a more interesting form.
2006
Gospel Graffiti
After the decision to come back to the church (in the broad sense.. not the man made institutes perse) God clearly showed me that I’d need to start living in the light in a literal sense, no more running around in the dark, painting my name on every random thing I’d run into.
Then one day I searched for graffiti on MySpace (RIP :P ) and one of the top results was this crew called Gospel Graffiti.. which became my family in the years after that. And within no time at all we even had a Dutch chapter. In ’08 we had a nice meeting with the whole gang in San Francisco.. Check it out here.
The self focussed meaning of my name op until then (See 2002) started bothering me at that point as well and shortly after the meaning changed to Jesus On A X (cross).
2009
Getting a little bit more serious..
So.. around this time I got an interesting job seemingly out of nowhere which started a new process in my head. And I started looking at the business side of graffiti with a little more interest then before.
So the idea was formed between me and a friend to start a graffiti business with a little bit more of a commercial focus.
And so Studio Graffiti came to life.. more on the development of this at the bottom of this page.
2015
Organic expressionism
A sort of new path that combines quite a few things that have been a part of my pieces over the past few years. In this I feel like I’m doing what I love the most.. paint fast and paint big..
2017
Furniture design
Another new wave in this creative flow, finished my studies woodworking and started making furniture in my workshop. No clue where this will lead yet.. but we’ll see :-)
2022
Getting a little bit more serious.. Again
So together with my now wife I decided to shift to focus of Studio Graffiti to a bit more of a social company. So we’re giving more prominence to community murals and other more socially engaged graffiti projects.
uuh.. yeah..
Now what?
You can follow my work on social media. Want some work done? Get in touch..
Also check out my crew.. Gospel Graffiti