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“Graffiti is the art of the people. It is a language without clear official status, but whose instinctive quality testifies to the honesty of human experience and the true nobility of art. Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”

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“Therefore, I present to you this book—a tribute to light, the sense of sight, and the vision it gives, outside in. This work is none other than an invitation to see and experience life in all its unadulterated fullness, both outward, and above all, inward. I hope that it can offer you a new way of looking at the world.”

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“Through the sharing of this subjective meaning, I hope to inspire the audience to appreciate the world around and inside us, to reconnect once more with the universal fabric of consciousness, which contains all the Truth we need to know, but is oftentimes buried by unawareness in our daily lives; and ultimately, to celebrate this grand infinity we share.”

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“The primal need for self-expression and documentation has appeared in human beings since the dawn of humankind. Our ancestors began carving shapes on rocks more than 40,000 years ago, and now graffiti has become a popular urban medium for self-proclamation an evidence of one’s egoic identity reinforcement, an innate desire to pronounce oneself and leave a mark in the world. The wall is a sacred place. Containing layers and layers of joy and pain, it is a collective scream on the voice of humanity; it is raw, vulnerable, and real.”

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“When we look up to the sky, we see distant spatial objects as small; has it ever crossed your mind that this is also how we may be perceived from other viewpoints in the multiverse? Looking up to the sky, we get to experience our own scale, our insignificance in the face of the grand forces of nature and their indifference towards our personal conditions. Yet, strangely, this experience of insignificance is not that of diminishment; but of peace, liberation, and relief.”

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“As you dive into these pages, you will come across a variety of instruments that artist photographers use to bring beauty and meaning, otherwise buried, to light. Beyond technicalities, there lies the foundation of openness, intuition, alertness, attention, timing, the enthusiasm to know, the patience to wait, the courage to move closer, and the willingness to contemplate.”

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“The subjects that fascinate me are substantially varied. Sometimes I am transfixed by the emptiness of a scene, at other times by the chaos. Sometimes I am drawn to the vibrant richness of colours, at other times to the mute lack of it. But one thing is certain, in the midst of space and light, I always find meaning.”

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