Today we’d like to introduce you to Eaj 2323
Hi Eaj , we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I am a french mural artist, most of people call me “Eaj”. I borned and raised in Paris neightborhood. I started to draw when I was a kid and I met the hip hop culture when I was teenager. Graffiti is a part of that and gave me the opportunity to learn how to use spray cans and street codes. that tool became my favorite realy fast for many reasons ( fast, clean, realy bright colors, it works on every textures…) . I tried differents styles and compositions and I will probably change again but since few years I paint dogs. I always have a realy good connexion with this animal, I never been affraid of them, they are urbans, they protect them familiy or crew, we are so similar. Pitbulls bullies and else have a realy bad image in the medias, so many people are thinking they are all dangerous, agressive or more but if you take time to be close from them you will discover what they realy are. We had the same problems in the hip hop culture, so I felt a link and represent them as I do, like a tolerance message.
I mix realistic dogs portraits with geometrical abstract and that created my style.
Cross the world and paint in many places is one of my goal and my favorite way of life.That’s how, I arrived in LA and California is for me one of the place be.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It was a long road, paint is my longest love story and like every relationship we had up and down but step by step we found our equilibrium and now we know how to live good together!
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I explained my style in the first question so I’ll not back into.
Life is the best school and I never stop learning, I am always in differents environements countries and else so I learnt adaptation. I am proud to paint here 6000 miles from my home and be abble to build projects and share social moments in an other language. To be a french in France that’s common and easy but be french in an other country makes me a bit apart from others, and at the opposite now when I back to Paris I am someone who spent time and learnt a lot from my travels.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Don’t wast your time, if you have any idea and you think that’s possible to make it, do it right now! Don’t be affraid to try.
Try to have a good organisation but never forget whatever you expect at the begining it’s always different at the end. and we all deal with that.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: eaj2323
- Youtube: eaj2323
Image Credits:
Eaj 2323
