Graffiti legends unite

Josh Franklin, better known as Stash, a legendary graffiti artist from New York, brought his graffiti aesthetics to the collaborative exhibition “Namecaps: Spaceman”, in which he joined forces with Jahan Loh, a contemporary artist from Singapore. Held at Event Hall, Central Chidlom, “Namecaps: Spaceman” showcases art pieces in an East-meets-West concept that delivers compelling storytelling about the past and the future. Jahan explained that “Namecaps: Spaceman” basically is an East-meets-West and past-meets-future exhibition. The word namecaps is spaceman spelled backwards. Stash added that in the exhibition, Jahan represents the future as he has seen it and is the spaceman, and he is the “graffiti artist with spray nozzles”. The exhibition’s working process was intriguing because Stash and Jahan had a 12-hour time zone difference. Stash revealed they each started their paintings independently in their studios in New York and Singapore. Then, they met in both cities to work together before finishing everything in Bangkok, which they refer to as Southeast Asian New York due to its diversity. “We share a lot of philosophy. We liked the idea of our 12-hour time zone difference. We were up at a time when we shouldn’t have been and we communicated and created a...