Ed Hicks
My work came from graffiti without graffiti. All the presence and impact but aiming at more universalist ideas. Trying to avoid the forms of advertising inherent to a lot of street art, I chose a more romanticist form. Making public works means you have a duty to people. The work is not ‘dark’, as its concerned exclusively with LIGHT. So with the colours of dawn and dusk, beginning and ending, I try and capture a moment of awe. These paths to hope/apocalypses are neither truly biblical nor ecological but, due to the non figurative nature of the work, reflect back and become entirely personal. As Rilke said: “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.”