I went traveling after high school for a year and went all around. I had a vague plan. Started in Sri Lanka, and I have some family in Israel. My cousin was having a wedding so I went there for a bit and went to the wedding. Went to India, three months there, just bumming around, hitchhiking, going here or there — I said fuck it, ended up in the Himalayas. From the last place you can drive to the mountain was a day hike. I met this guy who was the same age as me, doing the same thing. We bumped into each other a few times, and we met up there again. Ended up taking some strong acid and getting lost in the forest. We had to camp out into the night together, I was very scared for my life. They told us not to go on this course before, we were on acid, and we didn’t bring anything — but we made it. It was awesome.
Painting the walls to create and not to express hate
On the one hand, graffiti is usually made by anonymous artists, who do not receive money in exchange for doing it, and who do…