Hello and welcome to the "ABOUT PAGE " of ZTENZILA ...this is the page where you will know the man and he's arts ...so enjoy and have a GOOD read !!!
WHO IS ZTENZILA? ...Well, he can be know as ZEXY ZTICHES, ZTENZI for short or ZOZ or spell his name like this "STENZILLA" ...but what ever, always remember him just simply as ... "ZTENZILA" the man with multiple Graff skills.
BUT HOW DID HE BECOME THE ZTENZILA? Just like any other superhero or artist or even people go through.... TRAGEDY ...he got pick on, bullied in school by students and teachers alike or sometimes peer pressure from his folks, which triggered suicide thoughts on him...but above all, he was Isolated in his life in his teenage lifestyle. But one day, he discovered Graffiti, Skateboarding and Punk rock, this is where his angry and tragedy can all be put into his work when doing graffiti or street art in the future, where his sadness can be seen as gladness ...from those discovery’s, he wanted to do graffiti/ street art, in his own way... by calling himself ...ZTENZILA!!!
THE NAME ...where does that name "TAG" comes from? ... If BATMAN were to call himself "Nocturnal Dude", would that ring a bell? ...NO or if Spider-man named himself, "the Arachnid Gentleman" would you buy his comic? ...HELL NO ...so when Ztenzila had to think of a name that had a ring to it, he started from zero.
So at first he called himself SKETHCES ...which had a ssss sound to it, but he could not live with it, due to it's lack of visual and it cheaply came from a trainers brand with the same name, so he went back to the drawing boards and thought of a whole list of names and combined them to the word STENCIL. As he wanted to do stencils in his Graffiti career ...so he thought of some names..."the stencil", STENCILSKETCHES, sketchy stens, stencila, the stenciler and then he had another name in mind with a ring to it ...`GODZILLA' as you know, when people see that monster they'll shout GODZILLA, GODZILLA, GODZILLA!!! Like there is no tomorrow, so then he took the first four letters of Stencil and added the last five letters from Godzilla so then he got STENZILLA, but as you know, when making a nickname or a tag for yourself, be sure to know it is not taken or used, which he did discover it was a name of a TYPE FONT ...so then he turned the S into a Z and got rid of one L, and that’s how the name ZTENZILA was made.
As for his signature TAG logo ... which in the future would look like zoz, it's basically an abbreviation of his name, with two "Z" between a face in the middle of it "which is him of course" ... this idea came to him when he saw a certain graffiti piece, where there is a character in the middle of an artist graffiti piece, so he liked the look of it and decided to use if for the future and later years of his graffiti work.
Some times people will mistakenly pronounce it as "ZOZ", but like I said before, call it what you will, but that is the TAG, LOGO and the MARK of ZTENZILA... and always remember that folks.
His first debut in graffiti, started by just simply sketching random graffiti designs that he could draw,then he moved to sticker graffiti and eventually started to do stenciling on people's skateboards and getting a bit of chunk changefrom every skater he stenciled on or even a great prep from his peers !!!
So eventually,he had to push his style of graffiiti and streetart to the next level...by doing little stencils on the streets of Hackney,Camden and Islington...just by simply stenciling his name of public generators and on the floor. However as we all know, getting caught can be abit of a dragg ...so he invented a new way of tagging his name to the public, by making cardboard stickers based on his tag logo and he would call them LIECENCE TAGS as there were abrieifiation of his name and a very quick of not getting sited by the public or any other authoritys alike.
In year 2008, he set he's sites in doing a public show based on his work and art, at the NO:id gallery in shoreditch.
He was mentored by local graffiti artist SPAT who run the show space and helped Ztenzils presue his work ot the audience who may like street art or never seen a street show in their life...
The exhibition was done in 31/10/08 till 05/11/08, it was a new start for the underground artist and a bit of a challeng, but has faith had it, he would do another streetart exhibition, with good friend and mentor STIK, in the year 2009.
BUT THE STORY DOES NOT END THERE .... YOU WANNA KNOW WHY ?
BECAUSE ZTENZILA IS HERE TO STAY
AND IS STILL SEARCHING FOR SUCCESS !!!
PEACE !!!