Ink Pens & Spray Cans

Book excerpt: Ink pens & Spray cans (the graffiti bridge mixtape) was inspired and created by Ink pens Kenny (Pens) and his younger brother Sayvion- (Fede; shortened for graffiti). Kenny and Savion are kind of forced to live in their parents broken down condo until their living/financial issues improve (broke struggling artist).. To further complicate an already hostile and awkward living arrangement in the condo aka The Rhinestone Box, the brothers takes in an almost complete stranger, struggling writer, journalist and ex graffiti artist Nirvana Chancellor. The three dont get along very well early on and has some hostile differences in artistic merits/expressions Nirvana likes both poetry, short stories, photography and a range of work, but believes Kenny to open more to the world to share his heart. In the same she believes Fede to graduate from amateur tag artist to a colossal figure. Kenny and believes that graffiti are not necessarily criminal as his mother feels, but that Fede should move away from tagging their home and other peoples property. Sayvions graffiti and tagginghe does not understand why he has to tag it and express it on buildings verses a piece of paper, etc. Savion believes that poetry and short writing is cowardly and that a man should express himself straight from the art. Now Kind of force to live under one roof/condo (which they frequently refer to as the Rhinestone Box) the three create various forms of magic and learn that every human being has some form of artistry/inspiration that helps them to throb and create with -which is documented & celebrated in the frequent visits from both parents, friends and various girls The three (Fede, Pens & Nirvana rise together to create Ink pens & spray cans ; the graffiti bridge mixtape the mixture of their work recorded. Ink-joy.