Ross B-side

The Cookie Jam! Fever dream of a weekend spent with incredible artists at one of the best jams I’ve ever attended. Massive thank you to @mister_oreo39_ for all the hospitality and allowing me to join in the fun @the_cookie_jam_ and to @unprofessional.artworks for being a great painting partner. Shout out to @tagcolors for the paint and to all the amazing people I met this weekend and love to Voyager crew @recklessgraffiti @rabbgraffiti @tizerid 💫

Wrote a big caption for this post, wherein I revealed much hard won wisdom and insights into the human soul. Then IG shelved that post right up into the Void never to return… 🥲 Painted at @yardworksglasgow with @montanacansuk and @theguzler @jpeg.dp and @pizza_boy_uk for company.

I painted this Fractal Attack Mollusk (MK XXIII) at @yardworksglasgow with @montanacansuk alongside some quality artists and friends. #TLDR: time long, artist short in time, build together something greater, let’s get along. I want to acknowledge the influence of writers and artists who had mastered 3D graffiti lettering long before I picked up a can. I got that ‘Graffiti World’ book from borders back in the day and the likes of Daim, Seak, Totem and many others stood out to me immediately. The work of the TPN crew in England amongst others like Bonzai, Astek and Shok1, which I would see in Graphotism all made me love ‘3D Graffiti’. Locally, seeing the work of Gaz, Asone, Rogue, Estum down the tunnels in particular was mind blowing. It’s easy to forget how rare it was to see quality work in person. These paintings sparked a life long fascination in me for the art of making the unreal, real. Anyway I hope I can contribute in some small way to our collective love of graffiti art and appreciate always the work of artists that built this thing before me. I enjoyed painting this, very stop/start, but I enjoy coming back to a piece, and lately I’ve been weaving the same motifs into my drawings and tattoo designs so flowing between them is becoming more natural. I’d like to make more paintings in this style as I push it further along. Let me know if you would like to work together. We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants in this game, it’s all derivative, it’s all repetition, performance, posing. I love painting for the ritual of it. Setting up, packing up, and the blur in between. I love Graffiti because it is a broad church, all things to all people. So many big minds and big hearts in this culture and I’m grateful to play a small part in building something bigger than me. 🖤✨

Got back to Glasgow from my road trip up north and Rabb and Reckless asked if I wanted to hop in a motor home and go on a 2000 mile round trip to Dinslaken, Germany to check out the Cookie Jam organised by Mister Oreo. Obviously the answer was ‘Ja!’ - picked up Tizer in London and spent the week with some incredible artists, good people and great craic.

Lakeside in Essex with @recklessgraffiti and @bosscitytaio - warming up on the road to Southend last year.

35mm film photo of my piece in Dundee painted alongside my good friend @_jozasuko__ who was single handedly maintaining and clearing up this space that serves as Dundee’s Hall of Fame when I arrived. Joze has also been running the @black_book_burner_battles for I think 3 months now - check that out if you love Graff, black book culture and style over everything! I always enjoy my time in Dundee and look forward to more spray days with the Yes City massive.

Rounded off a week of painting in Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen with a wall in Glasgow with some mad heavy hitters. Big up @rasktdaklann @skareone @larscopenhagen @eskae545 @hoacs @aser.thirds and of course @theguzler - pleasure to get a wall with these legends! It’s a team sport 🫶🏻🖤✨

Vibing it out.

Straight letter with the Mike Tyson highlights - Wee container painted at the @glass.house.gallery Shutter Sesh jam organised by @rabbgraffiti - thank you for all the hospitality and for a great event!

I painted this wall with @aser.thirds and @theguzler at Southend City Jam last year. @southendcityjamofficial was an incredible event to be a part of, full of amazing artists and good people. Big thank you to @ster.upc and @ekto.1 for the opportunity to take part and for all the work they do to promote the graffiti scene in the UK. Special shout out to @recklessgraffiti for being my road trip brother.

Some portraits from an evening in Grateful Gallery. At some point that night I accidentally switched my camera from its highest quality JPEG + RAW setting to its most basic JPEG only setting. My first thought when I realised I’d done this was ‘why would my camera do this to me?’, however it was of course my own clumsy doing. These photos came out at 600kb a piece and I assumed they wouldn’t stand up to much editing but I was pleasantly surprised that they all turned out well and all captured something of the personality of the subjects.

As close to the beating heart of the SWG3 as you’re ever gonna get. Working with T is a total joy, and I think these photos capture some of the magic he brings to the crew. ALWAYS READJUST.