HITOTZUKI HELP COMMEMORATE 15 YEARS IN PAINT

The first day of painting was the coldest but instead of going inside the wooden house we retreated further into our jackets to stay and watch Kami and Sasu make preparations. On that wintery day, these two mural painters were covering a concrete wall outside an old house in the backstreets of Shibuya. Tins of paint, brushes, rollers and bags are spread out to form a work station on the side of the road by the wall.

Kami has been painting murals for ten years and Sasu has been painting almost as long. “We are not graffiti artists, we are mural painters,” reminds Kami. Although at one time notoriously known as graffiti writers, …»