Karen "KRN" Valentim [5 first rows]

My name is Karen Valentim, sign KRN, and I work with urban art dialoguing mainly with the Indian culture in general. Some time ago this interest rose to work with this theme because of the close relation I have with family origins, my great grandmother was indian and lived in a village in Porto Seguro - BA, and the need to understand this not valued cultural and historical richness that is our best but in most cases there is no interest to learn more and deepen the mysteries existing in our roots.

The project Linguagens da Terra proposes to the components responsible for its accomplishment and to the public receiving the knowledge of indigenous culture from a differente perspective. I want to produce work with graphite, using increasingly more graphics and variety of colors, from what is developed in the indigenous body painting and crafts.
Patrick "Gone" Heleno [last 3 rows]

I'm known as Gone, Nego but actually my name is Patrick Heleno. I'm 31 years old, am a designer, paint takes much of my time.

Since always my favorite games always involved some drawing, watching, learning or doing mine. This is first and last memory. I am the good habit of always doodling, any piece of space already serves me. When I'm not doing I'm certainly watching someone doing a drawing. As a real observer ended up just surrounded by walls of all the ways that I went. Then in 2008 tried to pass ideas from paper to other media, shall we say, more extensive. Perhaps for seeing that it was possible. Looking for new techniques, other traits emerged as the stencil seemed to be a quick and easy solution to implement a drawing with ink. They were at first very simple drawings and the message was just the design. Thus the encounter with the ones who created what I so admired was inevitable. I met the faces behind the drawings, the reasons behind the stories and realized that doing small on the paper was only a rehearse.

The two years I dedicated almost exclusively to an authorial development that leads me more to each of the panels and murals where the main themes revolve around the visual references that I've carried since always. Sometimes I find it quite visual rancid. The presence of black lines in imaginary figures traces out what is almost always the main subject of the work. Often the work sustains reverse meanings, whatever the perspective chosen by the observer. The colors of my imaginary diaspora now appear throughout this current series of works. I go creating a place that everyone can see what approximates and drifts away, of others, of where they came from.