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Instagram: @shab.cc 1. What’s your story? Where are you from?Hey, I'm Shab! I'm from France in Haute Savoie, from a small village lost in the countryside. I've always liked to draw and paint since I was a kid. I started drawing using a pencil and then became interested in graffiti through parkour, an art of moving quickly in the street, where I saw a lot of graffiti. 
2. Tell us about your aesthetic.My style is mainly inspired by the faces and people that I meet, as well as my environment and my travels. I create a vision of a colourful world, illustrated by disproportionate characters and minimalist faces. I am inspired by my daily life, my encounters, and the environment in which I evolve. Each creation is seen as a way to freeze time, to transcribe a moment, an emotion. 3. What is your favourite medium and why?I love to paint in the street, it gives me freedom and it creates great memories with my friends. 4. What is your artistic process like?In terms of process, I let my imagination run wild, I put myself in a bubble to be able to search deep down for inspiration. 5. Who and/or what inspires your work?I have a lot of people who inspire me, in traditional painting, I would say Picasso for his spontaneity, Fernand Léger for his compositions and Le Corbusier for his colours. Also, I admire the bodywork of Dozegreen, El Seed's work and person, as well as Ricardo Cavolo. Ancient Egypt is also a great source of inspiration. 6. What role does art play in your life? How does it change the way you view the world?Painting is part of my life, I spend most of my time drawing and imagining what I could paint later. 
7. Where did you study?I studied in Haute Savoie in the field of Carpentry and continued with a diploma in Design Product in Lyon. 8. Where do you see yourself in five years?I studied in Haute Savoie in the field of Carpentry and continued with a diploma in Design Product in Lyon. 9. What about in ten?I studied in Haute Savoie in the field of Carpentry and continued with a diploma in Design Product in Lyon. 10. What do you hope to achieve with your art?I hope that I can leave a trace of my passage in every country I have the chance to visit :) 
11. Now, tell us a little more about you as a person: what is your favourite food?I have two favorite dishes: my grandmother's tagine as well as her tartiflette 12. Favourite book?The 4 Toltec chords 13. Favourite genre of music?My favourite music is rap. Depending on my mood I also really enjoy listening to techno. 14. What are your hobbies?I love to parkour, go out with my friends and for sure, paint and draw. 15. If you weren’t an artist, what would you be?If I wasn't an artist I would have probably turned out a gardener or I would have worked with animals. 
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