Keep Your Mouth Shut

A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unsponsored works of art around the world

More than 350 photographs combine with previously untold firsthandstories to offer readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and streetculture, asubculture that has grown seemingly without boundaries. Vibrant, urgent prose takesreaders into the emotions and physical experience of bringing street artinto existence, capturing the moments of creation as well as thecamaraderie of souls bound by these acts of expression.

Each story is a real-life mini action adventurefollowing FLEX | KYMs trajectory from local artist to world traveler toincarcerated individual to creator with reignited passion
Underpinning thestory of the art is that of Chicago and its growth intoa city internationally recognized for live-action urban painting
As the art ignites a path to form global networks, the journey takes readers to New York, NewJersey, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Vienna, Warsaw, Prague,Bratislava, Catania, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Stockholm, Bangkok,Barcelona, Istanbul, Athens, and Berlin
Features images of art by FLEX, ARK, FACT, SKOL, DTEK, SPIN, HEAR, NYKE, and other graffiti artists from Chicago and beyond

This visceral look at the artistic process takes readers deep inside theworld of graffiti arta subculture that is now more celebrated thanever.[AuthorName]By FLEX | KYM and Foreword by EMTE[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]FLEX | KYMis a prolific world-traveled painter, writer, and photographer. His experience with graffiti art comes from being deep in the trenches with a desire to share and celebrate it through story and image. He lives in Chicago.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]358 color images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Graffiti Art & Street Culture in Chicago and Beyond[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]358 color images[/ColorPattern]