. Actually, I have a great picture of me with Mayor Koch, as I present him this book and he makes this really horrible face, like, “Who is this guy and how did he get in my office?”
HARING: Mayor Koch hates it a lot. What I call it doesn’t matter because the media calls it graffiti.HARING: I call it drawing. It was ironic that I got to meet the mayor because of that litter pig thing. The Sanitation Department has a new anti-litter campaign for the city called “Don’t Be a Litter Pig” and they asked me to design the pig for it.
HARING: It made everything simpler, except that everybody knew you and everybody knew everything you were doing. And for me that wasn’t good because I started my childhood being a really good little kid: churchgoer, straight-A student, Little League team. And then by the time I was 15 and wanted to be a hippie…HARING: I guess being a little bit progressive by myself and just readingmagazine and seeing Woodstock and the Democratic convention in Chicago on TV, things like that.
was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn’t know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.HARING: Yes, it was like the first literary graffiti.HARING: Samo became a philosophy. “Samo” supposedly stood for same old shit. That was in the Mudd Club days.HALSTON: Do you like to write, too?
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