A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unsponsored works of art around the world

More than 350 photographs combine with previously untold firsthand
stories to offer readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and street
culture, a
subculture that has grown seemingly without boundaries. Vibrant, urgent prose takes
readers into the emotions and physical experience of bringing street art
into existence, capturing the moments of creation as well as the
camaraderie of souls bound by these acts of expression.

Each story is a real-life mini action adventure
following FLEX | KYMs trajectory from local artist to world traveler to
incarcerated individual to creator with reignited passion
Underpinning the
story of the art is that of Chicago and its growth into
a city internationally recognized for live-action urban painting
As the art ignites a path to form global networks, the journey takes readers to New York, New
Jersey, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Vienna, Warsaw, Prague,
Bratislava, Catania, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Stockholm, Bangkok,
Barcelona, Istanbul, Athens, and Berlin
Features images of art by FLEX, ARK, FACT, SKOL, DTEK, SPIN, HEAR, NYKE, and other graffiti artists from Chicago and beyond

This visceral look at the artistic process takes readers deep inside the
world of graffiti arta subculture that is now more celebrated than
ever.By FLEX | KYM and Foreword by EMTEFLEX | KYMis a prolific world-traveled painter, writer, and photographer. His experience with graffiti art comes from being deep in the trenches with a desire to share and celebrate it through story and image. He lives in Chicago.358 color imagesGraffiti Art & Street Culture in Chicago and Beyond358 color images