HOST18’s Revamped and 90s pieces.

Although Revamp the 90s is a retrospective graffiti project it never gets lost in nostalgia. Instead, it explores the differences between graffiti then and now in order to move styles forward. In the project, graffiti artists revisit one of their own pieces from the previous decade and rework it on a wall with the ideas and skills they’ve developed in all the years since. Two of the artists involved, HOST18 DYM and RIME MSK aka Jersey Joe, who’s also the driving force behind the project, were kind of enough to talk with Razor Apple about the project, innovating styles, and early 90s metal.

Razor Apple: How did the Revamp the 90s project come about?

RIME MSK: The idea came from my working on The Exchange project. Through attempts at trying new ways of painting I thought it made sense to return to early ideas and build from there. Often writers will look at photos of past pieces and bitch about what should of been different. Revamp the 90’s is sort of a second chance, a throwback to a different frame of mind.

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After you’ve spent a couple hours fighting for a crowded glimpse of 11 Spring Street, you might wander up to Houston and Bowery to see this Jace mural. Since Jace went over the nice illegal pieces they had running, TABOO and HOST18 took the spot back with a couple tags. A bunch of the artists putting up work in the building have been putting up work on the street too.

TABOO and HOST18 got busy with some pieces on the corner of Houston and Bowery. Marty is holding it down too.

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