SABER

I remember even being young before saber was super big uh people kind of being attracted to his stuff because he was young and he was doing really technical pieces and he was very productive and uh you know he hit good spots he wasn't that guy just walking down the street just tagging on everything he was the person that would take the spot and make the most of it sa is known for just going all out he's known for doing things that like people talk about doing but nobody ever really has the the ambition or the drive to to really try to to go out and produce and accomplish as far as the west coast is concerned he's produced like probably you know four or five of the like 10 most Monumental pieces in works of graffiti things like the bridge on the five or GK you know that MK billboard right there by the Capitol Records building in Hollywood you know those things are just like colossal I've heard that I I was dead many times you know graffiti is all about gossip hi sweetie this this myth it follows him but it's a very two-dimensional character of who he is he's uh Infamous if you will he's got a larger than life Persona as far as his graffiti accomplishments and his [Applause] name laser blast and Jam Spinners that's sa's reputation and he's a pervert the first day I got my name was the day after I had my first sexual experience and I saw the letters and I saw that was the most amazing letter combination ever like an s in the beginning a a is beautiful a B in the middle which makes it symmetrical coming back into itself the E to B balance out the A and then the r to kick it off it's just like the sickest letter combination yet I think personally and so I'm walking with her holding her hand crossing the street she gets hit by a car gets smashed was lying on the center divider leaking out of her head and simultaneously I'm looking across the street and the kid who gave me my name was getting jumped by these serious gangsters basically the Two Worlds of of women and graffiti were just unfolding to me in this like hellish turmoil tornado of like holy [ __ ] this is what I'm in for the next you know the rest of my life when I would tattoo him he would uh he would come and just he would just unload on me this whole pent up ration of [ __ ] it's just like fever of of saber my whole family are artists and both my parents graduated Art Center so I grew up at Art Center and seeing hyperd design seeing car design I freestyled everything I had a general plan but uh you know nothing too specific started getting the blue tape out and just started uh taping out shapes this is too hard so I got to make it softer he drew every day since he was two years old it was almost something he had to do because when he didn't he actually became very irritable I didn't have any brothers or sisters to beat me up I spent a lot of time by myself I remember getting in fights and kids in first grade over who was the best artist in class I was the only kid I was willing to fight so going to say saber but it's going to take me a minute to get to that point looks a little messy now but by the end of the day it it's going to look real nice s a b e r you know I mean there's a lot of math going on there's a lot of visual math going on and people don't realize how much math really goes on to do a piece it's like with our pieces we like to break them down to as if they're actually in fighting stance the r leg is cocked a certain way and has parts coming out that'll get you or when I have certain center points to a piece I'll guard them with little like Spike connector laser things or whatever you want to call so it took me and Zess about three nights and uh it's actually about three stories tall and the funny thing was when I finished it I get a phone call from GK early as hell your s looks like [ __ ] you need to go back up there and fix it and I was like ah so I went back in the day and fixed the S and then I figured I finally it's [Music] done everything in my life always revolved around doing graffiti as far as I put that in front of my family in front of myself you know I've put my parents through hell for this there were points that became very low yes in fact it was very disruptive to the family uh to my husband and I as as a couple but also as a uh financially it was hard on us um we both had jobs that we had to maintain and it's kind of scary when you pull up from work and you see a police car outside your door and you're not sure if it's just because he's in trouble or they're telling you something worse than that because I've known his friends have been killed um have been shot stabbed um I've known that he's been beaten up so bad one time that I thought I was going to lose him with his eye he wasn't going to have a eye and he had brain damage where he had to go back through training uh educational training then years later I found it was own friends that beat him up to jump him into this sort of Quasi gang thing and I have a brain hemorrhaging and uh short-term memory loss I was in the hospital for for two weeks his knees are blown out his shoulders are blown out and can't be repaired things like that that to me have nothing to do with the art I couldn't understand how defiant he started to get and uh it had just gotten to a point where nothing worked praise didn't work threatening didn't work punishment restrictions eventually I told them I'm going to do this anyway you're going to let me go or I'm going to sneak out of the house I'm going to steal the car and I'm going to drive into La I'm going to go hang off a bridge and I'm going to steal some paint on the way there and I remember throwing a handful of cash down the stairwell at him and I said pick it up and don't come back call me I always want to know what you're doing but you can't can't live here anymore that I think was probably one of the lowest points because the last thing you ever want to do is throw your child out of your [Music] house first of all the obstacle is getting in with all your supplies you have to be aware of who's around you who's going to call the police on you if there's sensors you know you don't go in there slipping and then you know you begin your projects and the beauty is is you're the only one in the entire world at that moment that's in that position I've been been in plenty of situations where I've watched the world unfold in a way that most people don't get a chance to see it and that's 12 stories up hiding from a [Music] helicopter when you're that high up and you're that visible and you're doing something so big they pretty much can see you from a mile away possibly so that there's a person in there looking and he has infrared if he wants it holy [ __ ] your heart's pounding and that voice inside of you that tells you not to do it the guilt and and the fear that's inside of you your stomach turns into knots it scares the [ __ ] out of me I'm constantly like paranoid in fear of my own life those times you know on that 6-in ledge where I just slipped and it's like I've been there too many times but if you don't do it you don't succeed and someone else got the spot someone else got the fame every single graffiti Rider is a mic depressive insecure person because that's the only thing that makes you want to go out and ride on somebody's [ __ ] you know Satan's to me his anger stems from his separation anxiety from God and this is what this pain is called separation anxiety at this moment I got him at his weakness for the love of God I'm not trying to be goth I'm not trying to be satanic these things just come out of me and I just paint them another Satan but I think I need to paint another angel now to balance it out uh sometimes my imagination just kind of goes away with me my dreams haunt relentlessly terrible terrible night I will wake up in this kitchen you know freaking the [ __ ] out or or or moving paintings in my sleep or these weird spider dreams that are just ruthless and uh you know I actually made a little spider and put it next to my bed so that it kind of is like my little spider protector and things graffiti flourish is where it's the worst in the darkest places you see things that you're not supposed to see I mean the amount of homeless sex that I've seen on the street is ridiculous you're painting what are you going to do leave cuz this idiot's going to go [ __ ] right next to you and smoke crack and [ __ ] no you're going to keep painting so you paint you know I've seen dudes coughing up tuberculosis coughing up lung matter as he's walking along to go die in a [ __ ] piss corner somewhere there's plenty of dilapidated people out there that need somebody to pray for them I mean you know on the other hand people are in that position maybe because they deserve it or maybe because they made the wrong choices life is a dark [ __ ] place it's beautiful in the same token a lot does grow in the dark I've been coming here for 14 15 years but um I actually fell in the river one time I got caught in the currents [Applause] I had to get a hepatitis shot the next [Music] [Applause] day this place can be very dangerous at times the freeway people can see you CHP the helicopters and the Am [Music] [Applause] [Music] track it's a strange place this is kind of like some man's land a lot of texture I [Music] guess that's my number one insecurity right there and this is where I spilled the five gallons and I just broke down that night and I beat the bucket for like 45 minutes I throw a few fits over this [ __ ] piece right now we are in the LA River on my old piece I did 1997 roughly about 55 ft tall by almost 250 ft across by the end it took about 126 gallons of rolling paint it took me about maybe 35 nights to paint this thing actually I blew my knee out on this piece all the time on the slant I created a Groove in the cartilage so I had to get uh surgery on my knee I think the outline will hold uh it's under 10 years but you know this environment it gets so much sun it gets so hot all this paint just gets baked every day originally when I finished it it was 97 gallons but uh some [ __ ] came from New York to diss it so I came back and uh did the outline in the long run I'm actually really glad he did that because it humbled me and the other thing is it gave me so much freaking Fame in New York that it revitalized my you know presence [Music] I wish it looked like it did the day I finished it but I guess it's a blessing that it's still even here at this point you [Music] [Music] know I can control the destiny of these panties a lot easier than I can my graffiti and I'm tired of getting buffed I'm tired of getting dissed you know you pretty much got to count on everything that you've ever done will get dissed buffed or Fade Away there's over he touch that surface you know he's gone what sucks is that that's it for that kid right there that's all he has left in this world and one day that will be [Music] gone so now we are in the LA River smells a lot nicer in here though I had the great opportunity to paint this an institution like this is never included graffiti you know what's more important vandalizing or actually doing something that will last so it's not about just being a young punk running around destroying [ __ ]

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Keywords: saber, graffiti

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Length: 14min 19sec (859 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 23 2011