LA Graffiti Girls Mexico Edition: Kif

“I’m KIF from Leon Guanajuato, Mexico!

I became interested in graffiti when I was about 10 or 11 years old. That’s when my brother and his friends began painting and started BR crew. I would always ask them things about graffiti, but they never gave me much information, which sparked my curiosity even more. I’m not sure if it was because they didn’t want to explain graffiti to a little girl or because they didn’t even really know, themselves. I didn’t start painting until high school when I became friends with other writers and met my boyfriend “Work.” After high school many of these writers I became friends with fell off and stopped painting, but I didn’t.

I currently belong to two crews:

CK: A crew created 12 years ago, I joined the crew in 2008. Current members: Nickis, Fase4, Gogue, Bote, Sukre, Bacteria, Jhard, Unek, Boro and Berk.

IKS: A crew started in about 2003, I also joined this crew in 2008… The cool thing about this crew is that we all live in different parts of the city. Current members: Sark, Truko, Mikro, Gogue, Asme, Kabo, Naus, Jhard, Dreik, Ocre, Blexo, Dekl, Killer, Enter, Time and Dose.

These two crews are made up of excellent graffiti writers in my town and even though I’m the only woman in both crews, they have become second family.
They have and will continue to be a part of my life for many years.

LADY’S GRAFF is a website I began in 2002. At the time, there were almost no women in the Mexican graffiti scene, and the very few women who were had continued to go unnoticed. I wasn’t sure if this was due to the lack of interest in Mexican female graffiti art because it is, obviously, a male-dominated scene, or what, but I felt the need to do something about it. Ultimately, Lady’s Graff became a place where female writers could showcase their work as well as a forum for them to communicate and network with each other. Since Lady’s Graff’s beginning in 2002, the project continues to grow and the number of participants continues to be on the rise.”

To learn more about Mexico’s graffiti girls, check out Kif’s website: http://ladysgraff.blogspot.com/