ANTHEA MISSYSTREET ART, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS

WORK IN EUROPEWinter 2015

'Give me a Light'Graffiti WallBrussels09.02.2015

'Twin Flames'Graffiti Wall - 12m x 2mManchester07.02.2015

In the darkest moments of your Life,Follow the least remaining spark.

The meaning is clear for you.And has to be clear for you only.Because your soul needs highs ,Highs that none knows but you.

Real love.Real love to share.

Don't keep anything with or for you,Let it flow...

There will always be an echo in the universe.And the meaning , the true meaning ,

is invisible for the eyes.You may meet your #twin flame.

'Twin Flames'Graffiti Wall - 12m x 2mManchester07.02.2015

Exhibition Carte de VisiteL'Ecuyer - Brussels13.02.2015

Feature - WHM Brighton - Based Lifestyle MagazineIssue 88 (February - March 2015)

'Breaking Nutshell'Graffiti Wall - 7m x 3mCroydon (South London)26.02.2015

'My Sweet Valentine'Canvas - 30cm x 30cm17.02.2015

'Together in the Light or Apart in the Dark'A pair of 30cm x 30cm 3D canvases17.02.2015

If I like you it is because I love your energy.

If I don't like you it's because you go against my energy,souls as my temple.We could be like water flows, crossing over gently.Because we are all meant to be.

If we meet it is because there is a reason,Something we ignore or something conscious.If we share a moment on the path,It is because we have something to learn from eachother.When the lesson is taught,Our bond is released and the ties unleash to reveal thenext level of our inner light.

If we meet it is because there is a reason,Something we ignore or something conscious.If we share a moment on the path,It is because we have something to learn from eachother.

When the lesson is taught,Our bond is released and the ties unleash to reveal thenext level of our inner light.

If we do not understand each other sometimes,We should never forget the best,That shiny light that once brightened our eyes.

The flame is and was and fuels the light or cause thecombustion of our ties themselves.There is no need to cry or hide feelings and emotions.Because they are alive and they follow you.

The shapes can be the happy lucky flame of thebeginning,The burning fire of passion,Or the gentle warmth of the healed hearts heatingsoftly in the fireplace,There are seasons of love and change,Invisible and inevitable.

The only thing left then, is what you can feel insideyou.All the triumphs and failures will all be forgotten.You will just feel yourself the way you shaped yousoul and spirit.And maybe we are always on the edge betweenlife and death.And maybe every moment is deeply unique.And you can choose if you want a flame or ashes.You can choose to be a butterfly or a flower or tobe dying inside and not to enjoy the best life has tooffer:every second that surely happens.

If you don't believe, things cannot happen.Find the best in you and just use that healthy fuelto spread your soul all around you.This is how change happens, and this is how yourworld and the world around you becomes betterand keeps bearing the prints of the sweet petals ofthe light that shines forever.

Anthea Missy

IT, will and always be alive, as an abstract organicthing that you can't touch but will always feel.Let the fire have its own life,And don't throw water on it.When it's turned to ashes,It is still there and won't leave you.Instead of a sweet warmth inside your body, youwill just feel stinging bitterness.You don't want to poise your heart,And you don't want to poise the seeds of the love tocome with other souls.You respect nature and the invisible forces thatmade you meet and share, as an uncontrollable andnatural phenomenon.

You want peace and harmony within you.And this is how you will find harmony around you,elevating your inner harmony and producing evenmore warmth around you say by day.One day, you will be gone.In your last moments you will feel it coming to youto take you somewhere else.

'Love Stream'Canvas - 1m x 1m23.02.2015I was walking on my path andheard the sound of a river.It was a slow and repetitive rythmthat Hypnotized me.I approached the stream and sawdozens of faces in it.underwater , the ambiguousfeatures misplaced clarity.Some clarity I was looking for.

Out of monotony, out of routine,The streams were not straight and clear,But they were all going in one and only one direction.Floating above the sky.

And that river, out of sight makes that song that calls my ear.I can't see the river, but I can hear it.The river is hypnotizing and takes me with it.I don't know anymore whether the river is carrying me or if Ihave become the stream.

I left the edge to swim in the ocean of complexity and as the stream was carrying me,I felt in a complete motion of completion,Hypnotized by the stream and the lyrics of the waves, like a mermaid calling out fromparadise.I was drifting away in another universe.Like a bubble , like in a dream.

I thought the stream would take me out of my path.I hesitated to leave the fixed ground for the uncertainty of water.Soft appealing water where you can feel lighter,Dangerous waters which can change their appearance and drown you.

I had to choose between walking on a safe ground or following the mermaid.I preferred to leave the ground.Many times I hesitated and I figured that I could try to melt.

'Inside you'Drawing - 70cm x 50cm23.02.2015

The emulsion of our souls:I think once a day like that, and just for an instant everyday:At the same second someone is happy, someone is in love, someone is suffering.So for a second I go all through the entire spectrum of emotions a human being canfeel. Freaking. But real. That's a question of probability !I enjoy my time because I know I am lucky. I enjoy life because I know it can changebecause I know happiness is a fragile state and we all wish it can be maintained.I think of the romance of life and random circumstances that make you experiencethe unexpected or meet the indescribable person. (Positive thinking).Actually life is random and each choice has a huge impact on your life. So far, I amnot teaching anything new. However, it takes concentration to think backwardsand understand how properly a little thing we can do can change the occurrenceof events and lead to new paths. ( I got examples !)Even the time at which you leave your house to pick up the bread !

Souls are connected.If you think of someone who pops up into your mind,The reason might by that person is also thinking about you.Every time we communicate has an impact on at least one person.This impact can be positive.I wish in my case it just can be positive.I prefer to encourage and spread the light the more I can in any way, by thesewords or just by a painting :)I wish it and I am doing my best to achieve it.

So ok, I know you think about me :)And maybe I do too ;)And even if we never met , I mean not yet

The borders we perceive are not as real as we think they are.The hearts vibrate and emulate over other hearts on earth.There is that theory of law of attraction.I believe it is a true law (butterfly effect).All you think about and even the way you think about it has an invisible effectin time and space over others in short, mid, long run, and comes back to you aswellI think I may not be right , but this is my opinion. No! it is my belief

And then, I was thinking about some people I really like when I drew that one,like a silent pray in the night for them to feel good and carry on well.They popped up into my mind. I had nice thoughts nice images about us beingin complete harmony and mutual understanding.

I won't even tell them I thought of them.Some may understand and like it somemay think I have an interest.So we are bound to hide the love toprotect our own emotions and theirpurity.But I understand that.I don't need to say things.I think they can be felt by whoeverneeds them.So instead of sharing with a couple ofpeople, I share with everyone, for thebenefit of anyone to pick it or not.End of the story.

'Bees on their way'Graffiti WallCroydon03.03.2015

'A kiss behind the wall'Graffiti Wall - 7m x 2.2 mLondon03.03.2015

Drawings and Canevases (1)05.03.2015

Drawings and Canevases (2)05.03.2015

'A cage if you will'Behind the ArtworkIt is easy to paint a picture on the streets in a legal area.You think of an issue and you pretend to do an artwork.To what extent does it change the world?

I have painted that yesterday and I thought a lot about the work but also and foremost about the topic:forced child wedding. I went through an intense sleepless night talking and discussing with my brotherArnaud Missy and Fred !

I got many questions on my mind and rather followed a philosophical approach on my reasoning allowingmyself to question without giving any answer or opinion.I think a good writer or artist shall highlight a problem and have people to think about it, not giving anopinion.There is a clear difference between an impulse ( idea, artwork) and a reaction ( act)The foundation of the art of discussion is : objectivity.

This is how my logic cascaded down:- what is child wedding and who is concerned?- are there sociological patterns which enable us to target specific populations ?- does a girl who is getting married at 10 is conscious about the fact that she can have a choice ?- to the core : does she know what choosing is ? Did she ever made a choice of any sort ? Or was she toldhow to talk? What to do ? What to wear? Conditioned ?- does she have a choice?- is she culturally conditioned from young age to integrate to be married at 10 years old as a norm?-what is the importance of tradition and culture in this pattern?

We as westerners, tend to debate and discuss topics located in countries, about cultures which aredifferent than ours.We , with our westerners eyes, impose a perception over something that we ignore.

'A cage if you will'Leake Street London Graffitifor Femme Fierce08.03.2015

Our perceptions are not the same because we culturally integrate different Norms inthe patterns of our judgment.

We find it horrible and unacceptable to let a girl get married at the age of 10. Ofcourse, this is not an element of our western culture and it even shocks with ourliberty of expression and choice.We find pictures of little girls wearing red lipstick and looking like they are women.We find this shockin because we associate these visual elements with other conceptssuch as womanity, seduction, sexual energy, femme fatale.That girl on the pic looks like a femme fatale.

Do all the girls who are married at 10 look like this or is this just one image of thecase ?Are we really sure that image is about a girl who gets married?Where does that picture come from?What is the reliability of the source?

So far,I have not expressed any point of view.I am asking you questions,I am asking you to think , IN DEPTH.

I have visited some countries recently where I have seen women parked in buses andgoing to work for a weekly wage which may be the price of your daily lunch.I have seen women being pushed in jail because they wanted the land of theirparents to be freed from big lobbies.I have seen a lake of a century, being dried.I have seen those women protesting for nature, local life, and the safety of their kids.I have seen people who never got a chance to go to school.I have seen people who have no healthcare possibilities.I was there painting abstract art on the walls. I was there to see the reality with myeyes.

I did not read this in a book.I did not see a picture on Internet talking about how unfair the world is.I have seen the truth being hidden, distorted and used for the sake of the mostpowerful people of this world : the top of the pyramid.

Getting back to my thinking on the topic of child wedding, I continued my internalquestioning:- does it make sense to produce art on a topic which is geographically located on theother side of the planet , in a legal graffiti zone?- does it make sense to counter promote child wedding in an event called FEMMEfierce.- do we speak about children or women, women to become.

Getting back to what I have seen with my eyes in Europe:- women beaten by their man- women working for endless hours to feed their kids alone.- women who are considered as less than men with equal skills.

I have seen how unfair the world is down my street.

I have seen:- kids at work and community engagement.- women fighting for the rights of their neighborhood.- women sacrificing their life for their families.

And yesterday I saw a woman who said:' I don't buy stuff,My possessions come to me'.

I continued:- what about the kids which are used for work?- what about the kids which are exploited for things I can't even write?- what about kids who are raped and kids who are beaten by their parents....

NEXT DOOR to yours.

I would have loved to deal with a topic which may be a major concern . Highlyrepresented in society, some of the topics aforementioned .

I would have loved to deal with a topic which may be a major concern . Highlyrepresented in society, some of the topics aforementioned .

I got to think further:- what is the role of Art in changing society ?- what type of art actually has a changing impact on society?- are there other things to consider to make the art impactful on society like a goodpromotion?- can art really change anything ? Or does art only highlight ?- to what extent an artwork placed in a European street can change a problem whichis located thousand miles away?- is this credible / legitimate ?

DO I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT

My artwork is ambiguous and shows my own questioning:

Objective elements of my artwork:- A young woman is imprisoned in a bubble which seems to be a jail.- Around it , the golden wedding ring with a diamond- the ring and the cage are locked by a padlock all around her.- there are black and white abstract organic patterns around it moving towards theright.- the background is vague and unclear, blue and red, with secondary various colours.

The cage may be a window.A window from which we can see a young woman . It is not clear to see if she isinside a prison, or behind windows.We can see her physically but we cannot see her universe.Where is she ? How does she feel?Is she happy ? Or not ? How does her life feels like ?

One thing is certain; there is a boundary that we cannot cross between our world ofperceptions and hers.

My answer : I don't know. Do you?

She can see us.What does she think about us ?Does she think the way we live is normal? Does she want to get out her universe andlive the same life than we do with our norms ?Are our Norms so different than hers ?Are there analogies between that issue and some that we know in our westernculture ?Some similar issues that we stand and close our eyes upon while pointing at theneighbors issue?

Can we even do a cultural separation?Hasn't our world turned global and isn't our culture global too?

The ring is gold. The ring is symbol of Union and belonging. Could it be a talisman ?Could it be a protection?Does marriage mean protection, and stability ?For who?

Can I pretend I know what is is like to live someone else's life and to know what'sbest for that person?Am I right ?Do I hold the truth ?

Wouldn't it be more meaningful to paint that where that topic takes place ?Does it require courage ?Is it dangerous to do that ?Do I fear anything ?Why?Does she have a choice now ?Or later ?

Can she make that choice ?What does she need to choose ?Will she ?

What does being able to choose mean?There is that saying that goes:Choosing something means the renunciation of something else.

Those are the questions I had on my mind before I did the artwork andwhich are still pending.

In complete abstraction...And so my life goes on in my abstract curvy patterns.An invitation to escape the shit.And just reimagine how our world can be good, nice and positive.A world of change.A world where nothing is for granted.And where there are possibilities, opportunities, and HOPE.

A 'Cage if you will' is a 2.5m2 graffiti on the topic of 'Forced Child Marriage' inwhich I am expanding my #organic style around a stenciled paste-up, on an oldschool graffiti wall of LeakeStreet London as a foundation background.

I enjoyed mixing techniques and working for the first time around a predefinedsubject. I also liked the idea of reconciling the past of the wall with the moment,thus making a tribute to oldschool graffiti style while integrating my art in it.

'A stellar path'Drawing - 70cm x 50cm16.03.2015

'Pandora box'Canvas - 1m x 1m17.03.2015

'Escape to another paradise'19.03.2015

'Secret squirrel'19.03.2015

'Lemon, mint and orange, and sweet stuff'21.03.2015

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