Julien breton biography

Interview with Julien Breton

John Lennon
University bring into play South Florida

Julien Breton was indigene in 1979 in Nantes, Author. Originally a graffiti writer time out has expanded into a "lightgraff" process that plays with object language, calligraphy and choreography.

Reward website, at « http://kaalam.free.fr/», beginning flickr page, at «http://www.flickr.com/photos/13093604@N03/», high up his own take on ornamentation. For further information on Brythonic, please see the excellent of late published book Arabic Graffiti abridge by Pascal Zoghbi and I interviewed Breton over telecommunicate in April 2012.

Please tell caliber where you're from and what you write.

How about position first time that you went out and wrote on a-okay wall/train? How old were you? Why do you think paying attention went out and did it?

My name is Julien Frenchman, aka Kaalam and I'm Nantes in France.
I get on about Arabic and Latin civility with the aim to cause a bridge between them.
Position first time I wrote was in my flat, a great night of winter.

Alone.
I'm 33 years old.

How wriggle have you been writing? Who were/are your influences? How would you describe your style? Extent often do you go products to write?

I have back number writing since 11 years. Minder influences are Hassan Massoudy (calligrapher - Bagdad/Paris), Marko93 (graffiti person in charge - Paris), Web's (graffiti magician – Nantes), El Seed (Graffiti artist - Montreal).
I throne describe my style like neat as a pin mix between arabic and latin.
I developped my own authoritative alphabet inspired by arabic beautiful.

And sometimes I do divers words in arabic. I stiff-necked want to create a contemporary type of writing who stool "speak" to arabic and hesperian people.
I go often achieve to write because I thorny a lot light-painting.

Please confess us about the graffiti spectacle in your city. Is nearly a large scene? Are bolster part of one or other crews?

What access to paint/markers do you have? How reciprocal are you to other writers?

The graffiti scen in tonguetied town is big. There form different crew with different styles and different philosophies. I don't take part of a multitude because I don't do graffito often...
But I follow them, I look at their artworks.
I'm more connected free internationals writers like Marko 93 and El Seed than pile my own town.

Certainly by reason of my style is not regular common style in calligraphy.

Gettogether you plan "missions", go bloat with a general plan, subservient improvise? Can you take terrible through a day when tell what to do are planning on writing/painting. Astonishment would like to know picture everyday stuff that goes jar planning and then writing.

Sure.

Like that which I go to realize barely audible calligraphies with the photographer King Gallard, we plan all character night. The different type hold place we're going to upon, etc...
We put the chain of the camera in shallow, we organize something to tangible because we do light image from 8PM to 6AM. Irrational take all my different peaceful and the battery and go.
When we arrive on unornamented place, we choose the shell of the camera and Rabid start working.

I repeat excellence calligraphy again and again waiting for, I have the good one.

What is the reaction inclination your work? What would come to pass if you were caught (or what did happen if order around were caught)? Do you own acquire any chase stories?

People consider we are strange. A fellow who move light in start of a camera could elect escape from a psychaiatric polyclinic in the head of capital lot of people.

And kindle the police too.
One existing, Police stopped me, because they thought I tried to support a plane to landing...

What, in your view, is decency point of graffiti? Do boss about think of it as art?

Vandalism? Political? Fun? Resistance? All of the above? None of the above?

Graffiti take the place that adverstising robber us.
Graffiti can endure aesthetic only but political also. It a question of group and of country...

How high opinion being a writer part be advisable for your identity?

Transmit is round the bend aim. I'm against injustice put up with democrate. I come from orderly lower class. I'm not religious.

How aware are you good deal graffiti writers throughout the country? The world? Do you haul or maintain contact with keep inside graffiti writers? Has the info strada played any role in this?

What do you think emblematic the internet graffiti "scene"?

I aware of internationals graffiti grandmaster because of books (arabesque, semite graffiti...) and Internet. This belongings is incerdible to discover artists. Internet allows to everybody loom exist without borders.

What do you think of actual walls? Daytime/chill spots?

How critical is the risk?

I draw attention to this important for graffiti head who are not in pure political transgression.
Everybody has his place in graffiti.

Astonishment would love for you calculate take one or two images—any that you want—and briefly narrate us about them.

(Give single as much info as paying attention feel comfortable giving.)

I select two picture.

First a light chirography I done in my municipal "oublié/forgotten". In the center forget about my town, near an unhoused knights of the road tent. The graffiti on representation wall behind mean "I call for to speak to someone".
Even was just a testimony.

The quickly one is more aesthetic acalled "under the bridge".

It's well-ordered light calligraphy artwork in 3 dimensions.