BOMS, Hong Kong street artist, graffiti writer, and bboy. His early creation focused on acrylic and canvas painting, until his interest started to grow on street dancing in 2008 and became deeply influenced by hip-hop culture. He devoted himself to mural creation since he had his first taste of graffiti in 2014. Hong Kong local stories are a common theme among his creations. By
transforming feelings and emotions into imaginary characters and words, each character that
drops from his brush is no less a human than anyone of us. Welcome to Boms wonderland.
I: As you know INTERCCEPT is plastic vinyl toy and art piece design company. Do you have any experience to collect toys Before?
B: I do collect some vintage toys especially figurine, some urban vinyl product related to mainstream pop culture, as well as some Blank steel cast toy. I love this kind of blank design toy. you can see I got a Truck, Train, as well as patrol car style. so we can draw anything we want on the steel case model car. Also, it does not break the law. It is totally fit for the writer likes us.
I: So what kind of element you would like to put it into this Sofubi project?
B: First, I was so surprised to receive an invite from the team INTERCCEPT. They deliver the message to me clearly about what they want to merge my own idea with their concept at the preliminary design stage. The clear message is put the Japanese decoration truck and HONG KONG local truck style together. And INTERCCEPT also looking for enough spacing of cargo design as they were pointing out the surface of cargo could be the space for the artist to perform their work likes canvas, wall, or even paper. That really makes sense to me as a writer. And personally, I think I will emphasis the muscle line of the body in order to perform how violent is Truck Kaiju on the road. On the design, I will prefer to put as many as small accessories for decorating the truck. As you can see those decoration truck have installed many chromed parts, for instance, likes LED bulb chain, chromed side mirrors, front grille, etc. Hopefully, the finished goods could go through the electroplating process and I am really excited about that.
I: That's interesting. So when we can able see the actual work or even prototype?
B: INTERCCEPT and I will bring the first prototype to Japan for joining the global art show. Debut on the weekend (3rd to 4th Aug) of Design Festa Summer 2019 in Tokyo. We will see the feedback from Tokyo.
I:的確有趣。那我們能夠在何時看到實際成品或是手辦呢？
B:我與INTERCCEPT團隊將會帶同手辦參加日本的國際藝術展．由8月3到4號會首現在DESIGN FESTA SUMMER 2019的展覽上。到時候便可從其他國家的參展商上了解更多不同的意見。
I: INTERVIEWER B: BOMS
INTERVIEW
When we first met BOMS was in a flea market event in last summer. All of our crews were so attracted by the graffiti wall inside the venue. Then, we found out the graffiti was painted by BOMS. After He shows us how he loves to create the work and share the message behind his work to the people. We were also impressed with some of his works from the past. He is a chinese calligraphy's lover. He love to put Chinese word, slang, and vocab into his creations.
One of the element of BOMS' works is the HONG KONG local Culture. It is including some local fairy tales, objects and street signs. But for us, the most attractive works he did is the paint of the Hong Kong local truck. Whole graphic is surrounded by his signature calligraphy with the meaning of such a expression of anger during driving on the road.
We are really interested in BOMS's painting style and the truck he has created, The anger and violent format of his works are quite suitable us to create a KAIJU project. We are therefore bold to invite BOMS to work with us for a SOFUBI Art design project.
But before we get in the Sofubi project section. We would like to know more why BOMS come up with the idea of truck related illustration.
但在我們進入此 ソフビ項目討論之前，我們亦想從BOMS身上了解更多當初這個貨車概念是如何萌生．
I: Why you created this Truck related painting?
B: I used to be worked at a logistic company and i spend most of my time with company's truck every day. The picture was just popped up in my mind in one day during we were in a horrible traffic jam. Generally. the driving behavior of most of Hong Kong professional driver are selfish, arrogant as well as aggressive. so i start to draw some Chinese calligraphy on my note book to describe their driving style. then i turn it back to the canvas once i back to my studio.
