The TRAP pops off the wall with the vibrant, multi-directional gradients, the heavy drop shadow. “You can give me any two colors and I can make them look good together.”Īfter forty five minutes, he’s done, standing in front of the polished piece. He fills with both cans at the same time, the colors flowing into another. He fills with one hand, while shaking up the second can with the other, then switches. At the abandoned Bowery station, TRAP pulls out two cans from one of his three backpacks packed stuffed with spray paint. His eyes sharpen, his movements are fast and precise. That casual man, utterly nondescript in public crowds as he makes his way to a spot. “They think we’re all bad guys running around scribbling shit,” he says. TRAP respects his craft, and is respected.
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“I’m still a street walker, a street bomber, but I like doing artistic work.” TRAP thinks the general public has a misconception that writers are just criminals. Some graffiti writers espouse a fuck-the-system motif, but that’s not what motivates the forty-something artist.
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(Watch the video of TRAP in action above.) Since 1979, he’s been spray painting New York City streets, evolving his unique handstyle and perfecting his masterful color blends.
He is confident, casual, as if he isn’t about to catch a tag on the underside of the bridge in broad daylight. “I don’t even think it’s a crime,” TRAP tells ANIMAL, walking through his home-borough of Queens.