Some people say I’m a criminal ’cause I don’t do pretty draws!

Rappel intervention carried out at STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, during Pixação: Resistance and Rebellion, in 2025.

Painted on the museum’s building during the exhibition, the phrase responded to long-standing perceptions that frame certain forms of urban inscription as criminal rather than artistic. By bringing this statement onto the institution itself, the action exposed the tension between incorporation and rejection, asking what kinds of visual language are celebrated, and under what conditions.

The intervention also pointed to the aesthetic and political standards often imposed on public expression. Through irony and confrontation, the phrase challenged the expectation that art must be pleasing, decorative, or easily assimilated, turning the museum façade into a site of direct critique.