Travel Chronicles is an editorial feature for WeJetSet’s online magazine. Through an open and casual conversation it highlights how travel has shaped the talents, perspectives and experiences of creative and business professionals worldwide. This edition features Stephen Powers, artist.
By Azim M.
Bombing Science: Why did you choose WHISPER/HESHER as your alias? Does it have some sort of meaning behind the name?
Whisper: Well, I guess a name or names choose you. Like most kids getting a nickname/tag back in the day, it’s like a rite of passage. I always thought that when a person adopts a tag, whether conscious or subconscious at that time, they become that tag. I went the typical route of searching for my identity though name, music, clothing, looking to the older kids for style. One day, I saw a kid take a motion tag on the outside of a 7 Train…”BIONIC”. WOW! I wanted my own tag, my own style.
“WHISPER” on canvas.I started trying lots of names out in my notebook: HELP, SET, RI (Radio Invasion), STOP, KING TRIGGER, etc. I was hooked. This was around 1979 in Queens, NY and all the kids on my block had a tag. I used to write in my building, my friends’ buildings, lampposts…then I met some serious writers and got the name WHISPER (WHISP, WH. ONE). I always liked the clandestine aspect of graffiti, so I guess the name fits. The name HESHER is a name I used for a music project in 1999. Everlast gave me that name.
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Music video for the track “death or retirement” produced by deeskee featuring lord ezec aka danny diablo(skarhead), peter greene(pulp fiction, usual suspects, the mask), tloks(la cruz negra, tko), sick jacken(the psycho realm), 2mex(look daggers, visionaries), and b real(cypress hill)
