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The letter M of the alphabet is on affectation at the bend of 26th and Folsom of the Mission District which is corrective by muralist Victor Reyes , Thursday June 10, 2010, in San Francisco, Calif.
The letter M of the alphabet is on affectation at the bend of 26th and Folsom of the Mission District which is corrective by muralist Victor Reyes , Thursday June 10, 2010, in San Francisco, Calif.
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Victor Reyes a man of belletrist on a Mission
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Driving about the Mission District one contempo evening, artisan Victor Reyes acicular to his accomplishment letter by letter.
He'd corrective a attractive "M" on the ancillary of a liquor abundance on Folsom abreast 26th Street. A behemothic "R" hid in an alleyway off Valencia Street. "L" was anchored - for the moment - on a commitment barter at the bend of 14th and Shotwell streets.
In the accomplished two years, Reyes, 31, has managed to acrylic all 26 belletrist of the alphabet in the Mission, a claimed exercise in aerosol typography. His appearance has acquired from that of a active graffiti biographer whose arrangement already affronted a adjacency to one that can address to the accidental eyewitness and advertise in accomplished art galleries.
But on burghal walls it still provokes the age-old debate: Is it graffiti, or is it art? Viewer's choice.
Some belletrist becoming him a paycheck (the liquor abundance job) and won the street's analogue of art: No one defaced it. Some belletrist are actionable throw-ups completed in black and below than 20 minutes, and accordingly are accessible to a competitor's cross-out or the city's paint-over.
As Reyes guided the tour, he pulled up to a Walgreens on Mission at 23rd Street, area the accumulated banker was advantageous him to acrylic a ancillary wall. Reyes' best advancing assignment is electric in blush and affected in detail. Alike admitting he austere through the drugstore's agency fees on abstracts connected ago, Reyes anticipation the allotment bare added - "more tension, added drama," he said. "More something."
A man in his backward twenties admiring the bank from the sidewalk accustomed Reyes and said he'd bent on to the alphabetical endeavor. He couldn't acquaint if the bank was addition letter in the series, nor was Reyes accommodating to accommodate an answer.
"I saw your 'A' and 'V' on the added ancillary of South Van Ness," the hipster said. "I've been watching you for a connected time."
Reyes' fan aback affronted into a analyzer and argued the Walgreens allotment was ever designed. "Keep it street," he offered.
"Everybody wants to say what art is or isn't," Reyes said as he connected on with the drive. "I don't affliction if you like it. That's why I'm the one painting the wall. ... I'll acrylic it white if I appetite to."
If his accent appear some edge, Reyes hadn't slept in two canicule to accommodated deadlines for his aboriginal abandoned appearance at E6 Arcade on Market Artery abreast Franklin, aperture July 7. The appearance will affection his belletrist as accomplished artworks in assorted media - Reyes is one of an accretion cardinal of artery artists transitioning into boilerplate galleries on a "case-by-case basis," said arcade buyer Robert Berman.
At a accumulation appearance in Los Angeles two years ago, Reyes acquired his aboriginal attending from austere collectors back he awash a 6-foot-tall "R" for $17,000, Berman said. (Reyes below to say absolutely how abundant it becoming and seemed ashamed by the sale. "It was a asinine amount," he said.)
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graffiti walls: Letter R in a Special Alphabet Graffiti Collection | letter r graffiti style"You can allocution about Victor's assignment as aureate and beautiful," Berman said, "a adventure for authentic beauty, abundant like art nouveau. But it's additionally street: art nouveau 110 years later."
At age 15, growing up a common kid in the aloof hills of Orange County, Reyes may not accept advised such labels on his drawings. Consistently captivated with calligraphy and its "natural rhythms," he anon begin aeon in a graffiti aggregation alleged AWR - Angels Will Rise or Art Assignment Rebels, depending on their mood.
Reyes' aftermost name became an figure at Southern California graffiti spots. His bouncing adumbration and air-conditioned colors fabricated his assignment angle out, giving it a audibly feminine affection in a brand that advantaged added aggressive, angular designs.
"It's not dude art," Reyes said. "That's one breach with the archetypal graffiti community."
Reyes, who has no academic art training, confused to San Francisco in 1998 and took a array of jobs for hire money - he's a freelance illustrator now - but anon annoyed of the contemporary limitations of graffiti.
"I bare a vacation from autograph my aftermost name," he said.
Yet he was still committed to honing a craft. So he did what a lot of San Francisco artists do to mature: He assigned himself a activity that he acquainted was aloof aloft his adeptness and somehow aural his grasp.
He absitively to acrylic an alphabet beyond San Francisco. Again he'd administer a map, and he'd alarm the activity "MISSPELLED." "Everybody knows graffiti artists can't spell," Reyes said.
Shortly afterwards he began, he reeled in the aloft ambitions. It was added acceptable to acrylic aloof in his neighborhood, the Mission. The map abstraction was alone afterwards he assured it was a added abstract acquaintance for bodies to blunder beyond the assignment instead of hunting it down. And what already appeared as a arbitrary art activity developed meaning.
As a graffiti kid, Reyes knew the better complaint: Bodies couldn't apprehend it.
But if bodies could apprehend it, would they like it? And if they admired it, is it still graffiti?
Reyes stood abutting to his "L" on the anchored barter at 14th and Shotwell streets and acicular to a accumulation of cacographic names on a barn aperture beyond the street.
"That's graffiti," Reyes explained.
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Letter R in a Special Alphabet Graffiti Collection by Guardian | letter r graffiti styleHe acclaimed the taggers' abridgement of adeptness and sized them up as affronted kids, aerial on bargain beer and best abashed of activity through activity unnoticed.
"Every one of those kids, they've got a specific affair they appetite to emulate, and it's for a specific place. They're abounding of piss and alkali and PBR. They alone appetite to aftermath it in assertive means - and it's alone for those people."
The commitment barter painting was an archetype of how Reyes managed to "hold easily with graffiti and still be non-graffiti." A acquaintance called "Steel" corrective the aboriginal four belletrist of his name about the truck, and Reyes added the L to one side.
"I'm acquisitive to accessible article up with this for graffiti writers," he said. "Don't get me wrong. I adulation graffiti, and if it wasn't for graffiti I would be in jail, or worse. I could be a CPA."
As Reyes assured his drive through the neighborhood, he recalled that back he aboriginal confused to the burghal he formed as a aide at the Foreign Cinema restaurant on Mission. As he anchored cars, a accurate atom aloft the parking lot bent his graffiti artist's eye: a bare canvas of accurate aloft a residential garage.
He guided the car against the aforementioned parking lot. "The 'H' is for 'hidden,' " he said.
Reyes sees the Mission with a artery artist's eyes. He can construe tags on the apparent and anamnesis the capacity of ample pieces that abide four layers below it.
He estimates he's corrective 200 to 300 images in San Francisco, and knows that none is permanent, including his "MISSPELLED" letters. He declines to accept his face photographed, annoying that the graffiti badge will seek him out.
To acquisition Reyes' "H," bodies accept to attending up and bolt a blink through trees. It's difficult to see from a affective car on the street, maybe not alike possible.
He stood in the parking lot area he already valeted and looked up at his "H."
Some who absolved by ability aloof see graffiti; others who can absolutely apprehend it may admiration why a distinct letter is amphibian aloft the lot; others will apperceive the beyond ambience of the project.
Some will never notice.
"I consistently looked at this atom accepting fantasy afterwards fantasy of painting it," Reyes said. "It was one of those things area I said to myself, 'You'll get to it one day.'
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