That was the catalyst to carry graffiti into the next level of consciousness of people. Graffiti to me has always been a state of mind. No, they would call him an artist. So graffiti is the state of mind. It is the mind that drives you to do the message, to have immediacy to communicate with people on many levels.
True art is one of the most profoundly popular ways to do it.
Like the subways, they take you to work and take you to the job site. You work all day from 9 to 5, and you get smuggled back into the system and become a part of regimented society. But the subway is nothing, just an object that carries you from place to place. It doesn't have any meaning, no soul. NY has a very subliminal message about it, very unique with different energy.