All photos courtesy of Song.
In Singapore, you’d be hard pressed to find a square kilometre which isn’t marked by an empty white wall. The country is littered with it. Three-story shophouses peeking over yellow-lined roads. Walls. Derelict parking lots at the foot of towering skyscrapers. Walls. Malls with side alleys that open up into drainage canals. Walls. These blank canvases are in no short supply. What Singapore lacks is patience, especially when it comes to people marking these walls. In Singapore, vandalism carries the penalty of a SG$2,000 (USD$1,400) fine, imprisonment of up to three years, and as many as eight strokes of the cane.
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Encouraged to pursue his interests at a young age, Song gravitated towards fine arts and illustration. The son of an art teacher, he eventually enrolled in an arts institution where he discovered his love for graffiti after a friend introduced him to some artists practising it in an art space in the school. There, he met friend and fellow rascal, Zero.“I fell in love with the feeling of satisfaction I got from graffiti and after that, I was obsessed. I realised there was so much more to it and I really wanted to find my way around the medium.”
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