Graphic art on the city street. The street is a road, a path. Graphic art on the street is on the road to men and women, is an encounter between people and art. City space is human presence and a crossroads where people's lives intersect.

The idea is – ideas are – always in motion, always in flux. Small, tiny, big, old and new, heavy and light.

The print is, in its origins and traditions, a "black art". The motif of the black flag comes from the "leaden" 1980s, when I was studying at the art academy; it was a time of greyness and lead. These are, of course, American flags (historical flags and in fact battle flags). Because the flags are not in their original blue and red on white (the Stars and Stripes), there is, to put it briefly, a certain doubt in the American export of democracy.

Black can also be a symbol of darkness. Today black has a very different construction because the modern world is in light – is in fact lit up, in bright and very strong shining colours. Hence the black stain, which conceals. Black is subversive because it is devoid of media light. And the world today is no longer made of lead and oil; it is, as people say, made of information. Apparently, information is the raw material of our contemporary world.