SOTEN (Copenhagen/Denmark)
Soten from Copenhagen (Denmark) is in order to judge the Write4Gold Australia 2007 Soten will doing this for the very first time. As little introduction have alook on the interview below and a few selected pics. If you dont know Soten, use google!
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Probably trying to do the same thing as Im doing every day, Pinky!!! Taking over the whole world Well to start off Im a young guy in my mid-twenties, my real name isnt really too important but my a.k.a. is SOTEN/SOTN, I represent the SSH crew from Denmark which besides me contains FARVE, MAES, VELK and BLEND.
I started doing graffiti with a friend that I used to go fishing with, he stopped and I just kept going for myself. Guess I got too hooked on it to leave it, and since then it has been affecting my life in so many different ways. It has given me a lot of good memories and friendships that I really wouldnt want to be without, but at the same time it takes so much time, money, and relationships. I cant even count that many times I have shown up to work looking like a piece of shit with only two hours of sleep.
What did you do today?
Got up way to early and didnt get many hours of sleep because of some late night action. Then I went to work and now Im just chillin.
What is your educational background?
I am currently in school studying, trying to be smarter than my friends :)
Digital or non-digital?
Both
What one event drastically changed your life?
hmmm...hmmm.. Wow thats a really hard question. Graff has changed it a lot for sure. Besides that I cant really come up with any special event that changed me. I get so many inputs every day from what I see, and the friends I hang out with, I think that is what is changing my life in the long run.
What kind of music do you like?
Everything from Frank Sinatra to Krs1. Right now Im listening to Traveling Without Moving by Jamiroquai, which, I think is a really funky album
What is your opinion on life existence?
Like everything else in this world, its not forever
Computer chip implants or not?
NOT!!!!!
How long have you been doing art?
I started around 97-98, but it already had my interest a couple of years earlier.
What inspires you?
Seeing the graffiti in my neighborhood was what that got me curious and inspired me to do it back when I started. These days I am doing it more because I love it so much, it makes me feel free and I really dont know what I should be doing if I wasnt painting.
Why do you do art?
Yeah why do I do it???? Besides for the same things that inspire me its hard to say, maybe Im just some crazy person I dont know?
What type of writer due you consider yourself; bomber, piecer, clean train writer?
Hmmm... I think Im a little piece of it all, there isnt really one thing Im only doing. Everything has its day, sometimes I just wanna chill out and do a wall along the tracks or a hall of fame where youve got some time to really work on the details. Sometimes I feel the need for some adrenalin and that great feeling to see a clean train rolling around with your piece on it. Bombin is also cool u know, just trashin up some shit with some nice drippy tags. Most important for me is that it has some style and I feel that I keep on renewing myself with some fresh stuff and that I dont just do the same shit every time.
Tell us about your craziest clean train mission?
Clean train missions are always crazy. I guess if I have to pick out a couple special ones its gotta be firstly doing a four car whole train with my crew and at the same time catching it all on film. Secondly something that really stands out of my mind, chases in the Stockholm tunnels after doing back jumps on the subway.
Where is your current home?
Small messy flat in Denmark, living with my best gay friend.
Do you travel to do your art?
HELL YEAH!!!! I just love to travel. Getting around to see other places of the world. As soon as you cross boarders everything changes, except McDonalds, I mean the cultures, people, the way to do art and the girls, its all different
Where have you been and where do you want to go?
Where do I wanna go????? Wow there are way to many to mention. I can tell you that my current plans are to go back to Stockholm in Sweden (its not that far so I don;t know if you want to call it traveling) and then I want to visit New York and New Zealand. I havent really been traveling with my art as much as I wanted but so far Ive been to Stockholm and Malmo in Sweden, Toronto and Montreal in Canada, Amsterdam and Prague
Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
Probably trying to do the same thing as Im doing every day, Pinky!!! Taking over the whole world
Interview taken by Lounge37.com
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