It's a Stick-Up

HIN

AT FIRST PASTING UP WAS MORE A NECESSITY THAN CREATIVITY FOR ME, BUT THEN IT BECAME A PART OF MY NEWER WORK. THE MORE I UNDERSTAND THE TECHNIQUE, THE MORE STUPID THINGS I CAN DO WITH IT. LIKE ANYTHING REALLY.

Born in a country village in Hong Kong, Hin recalls sport as his main talent in childhood. However, he fractured a knee when he was seventeen, turned to art and hasn’t stopped since then. He draws, paints and creates illustrations. He recently started working with paste-up, a technique that allows him to transfer onto the street’s walls the same detailed lines he uses when drawing. ‘Normally I do half of my work with really detailed line drawings. I couldn’t afford to do the same on the street. I had to speed it up so I started to use ...