They'll say we've seen the end of the war. 

They'll say that the liberties gained are better, louder & more defiant than the love lost, or the empty feeling in the hollow pit of my stomach. 

But my hands are covered in scars from jumping into thorn bushes to avoid passing freight trains. 

Their monstrous gaze howling down the track, solemn creatures worming their silvery, sectioned bodies across the landscape. 

My bones are all of an ache from exhaustion, when the idealism of the artist stops the feel of 3 hour walks can be felt in every pore. 

When the adrenaline surge shudders to silence, what is left is the shell of person turned superhero under cover of dark. 

All clark & bruce & peter parker, constantly pining.

“It’s really interesting to push yourself   physically and mentally to try and map a city,” he tells me. The physicality of painting means roaming the streets in a manner that many day-to-day citizens would never conceive of, and the intimate knowledge of the city structure fosters a deeper understanding of societal fabric. “To understand how much of a city space you can transgress and break through” is the goal, as Katsu explains, but that act also allows for an appreciation of the physical makeup of the urban environment – an ability to “understand the full social demographic layout of a city.”
- KATSU / ACCLAIM MAGAZINE. 2013