Inertia Creeps

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph. My whole life has been driven by art in one way or another, sometimes in a subtle way, others in a more direct way. From a young age I realised that academic skills were not really my thing, always being drawn towards art rather than everything else teachers tried to throw at me. Growing up I travelled alot, either through rollerblading with friends or just travelling to other countries. Graffiti always stood out to me everywhere I went, the tracksides, the rooftops, it was everywhere. I did try to paint for a while, not to much success. My handstyle was crap and my can control was pathetic. At a certain age you become involved in everything else around you, and hobbies suffer, this was the case for me, so for years I left art alone. In 2004 I went to Australia and I picked up a book called 'Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne' and without sounding too cliche, it changed everything for me. The energy the scene had at that time was insane, people were out all night painting everywhere they could. I knew I had to get in on it. I'd done stencils before so I knew the basics but the level