Cear One interview

Interview by Azim M.

Bombing Science: What is Cear One all about?

Cear: Cear is another way of me having another type of side, its another personality trait I incorporate in myself. For example, Is the place I go when I want to have an outlet from everyday life. It is an entity.  
 

BS: Would you consider yourself more of a graffiti bomber or graffiti artist?

Cear: I would consider myself more of a graffiti artist, because I think every graffiti writer, weather you’re a bomber or you consider yourself an artist, is an artist because there is an artist in every graffiti writer. Whether it’s hand style, throw-ups, pieces, abstract, posters, stencils, it’s all tied into one art form, graffiti.

BS: Where do you think graffiti belongs?

Cear: In my opinion, I think it belongs on where ever you see it to be, except for people’s houses, if you do that you’re a toy. Originally, it belongs on the New York City Transit system’s trains, but as if lately, I think it belongs on trucks, streets, and anything pertaining to the underground scene. Meaning, wherever you can snag a tag and it’s a dope spot that’s where it should be at, both illegal and legal spots, I love both aspects.
 
 
BS: What influences your graffiti art?

Cear: What influences my artistic talents is sometimes, music, books, other writers, life experiences, and anything that the social world brings me, and through all of these external factors I produce my art. 

 
BS: How does graffiti play a role in your life?

Cear: Graffiti has been part of my life since my early childhood it is in my blood. The way it plays a role in my life is that it gives me the need to express my feelings. From graffiti I was introduced through the elements of hip-hop, in which I found the element of DJing which brought me more into hip-hop but more into music in general, another big part of my life.

BS: How did you discover graffiti?

Cear: I discovered graffit by being curious as a little kid, I use to sneak into my uncles room (KR.ONE MAFIA) and noticing all of his graffiti magazines, markers, paint, and the smell of Rusto-Leum’s in crates, which sparked my graffiti career. His pieces on the wall popped out to me in such intriguing ways that I too wanted my own tag from that day on. I would flip through his black books and just be amazed about his work. In addition, living in Astoria, Queens at time where graffiti was popular on the street in the 1990s, I was influenced by the neighborhood writers such as, Teck BS, Nato, Brews/Bruz, MQ, Ghost, Trake, and Seus. These guys wrecked shit in Queen!

BS: Explain your collogues, and how you tie different art forms to graffiti?

Cear: The collogues is just an urban thing, if I get an urban vibe off the collogues it can almost look like a graffiti writer did it, what I am saying is that I think that anything can relate to graffiti because anything is art is my eyes, it depends on the individual artist and how he perceives it. I like to tie in different words together with pieces, words that express my emotions at the specific time and place and what is going on around me in my social world. 

 
BS: Where do you see graffiti in NYC in the next 10 years?

Cear: I think graffiti’s future is going to be more tags and less throw-ups and pieces done illegally. With big brother around, you’re going to be pressed just to catch a tag! Moreover, I think graffiti will never die out, but it will definitely not be the same as it was when I was growing up. Graffiti has survived early civilization and is still with us, I have notions that it is dead now but as long as I am doing it, it is alive with me. But who knows?

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