Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo It’s important for the city of Sao Paulo, it’s crucial. If it doesn’t have it… it’s not Sao Paulo. I used to draw since I was 2 years old.
When I got to know graffiti, and all of that… I saw the possibility of drawing around. Spread my drawings throughout the city. I was looking at this hoist these past days and was impressed to know that a work by Cranio will replace this empty and ugly wall.
Art… people need access to art. Art feeds the soul. We went to the other side to see it from there and have more notion on the proportion.
The size of the character on the building. Now I’ll have to go… and fix the foot. I realized that the sketch was smaller.
And we continued. Man, I’ve done graffiti in some countries. It’s 85 feet tall, the biggest mural I’ve ever made… on the outside.
You look around and see a completely gray city, gray streets, gray sky, everything's gray. And suddenly there’s color. The idea of having his character, the Indian, is something that makes you realize it’s his work just by glancing.
I think it’s very interesting, remarkable. Graffiti is for me what changed my life. It’s something I started doing since I was a kid… and now it’s my profession.
What I do for a living. If it wasn’t for graffiti, I wouldn’t be where I am today. I wouldn’t have achieved what I have… gone on the trips I have gone or met people I know.
I didn’t like it. Can I not like it? Of course you can!
What about the underwear? I didn't like it. It’s a loincloth.
– Yeah, but it’s ugly, right? – It’s not, it’s pretty. The country is already sad and you draw a loincloth… Don’t you like the flag?
I like it, but not on this place. I totally approve it! I think it’s amazing!
This city has too much graffiti, vandalism, ugly and dirty spots. The Indian is a… It’s a metaphor, my opinion on the citizens of big cities. Of big capitals.
Big stone jungles. So I came up with this intervention, this joke. Actually the Indians are all of us.
We’re Indians in the jungle of stone. We always go down to look from further… get the proportion right… balance the drawing. .
. on the mural. So it doesn’t get… disproportional.
So it doesn’t scape perspective, and it’s not crooked. It’s a protest to show to the politicians, right? I feel like he killed the politicians.
It’s a piece of art that will stay here in the city. For anyone who wants to look at it. Anyone who wants to draw a conclusion.
But my character here kind of means justice, you know?
