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Hunger for art

There is a different type of hunger - like hunger for art and hunger for knowledge or hunger for cognition. To find out more about the world, to reach the conclusion graffiti artist Shaya Weinberger has spend hundreds and hundreds of days. While looking for a way to satisfy his hunger, he came to the discovery that you can only seek to gather experience, but never really synthesize enough experience to silence this hunger. This was when he was turning over to art for the first time. This led him to create a series of philosophical questions about the core and on the margins of values. Because he was a graffiti painter, it was hard for him to gather audience for his works. Graffiti painting on its own was not enough, so he needed to create some additional activities like events, movements, etc. His goal was to enter the eyes and ears of people, to penetrate into their consciousness and memory and to stun them with his graffiti art. No price and no entry fee was ever required. However,