Bas DDS is the black opal, an extreme purist, the all-time king of the tube. By necessity he possesses the SAS combo of intellectual systems analysis, the guts to risk it all and the heart to see 10,000 dawns achieving results. He’s never earned a penny from his art and he’s never put a photo online, so here you go: the first published photos from the man I suspect might make the most important book ever seen on UK graffiti and urban trespass.
This article is taken from the landmark takeover of Big Issue by graffiti writer 10Foot. It can be bought online through the Big Issue Shop.
- Graffiti writer 10Foot assembles Banksy, Kneecap and more for radical Big Issue takeover
- Rone: ‘Most of my works have been destroyed’
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