Celeste Mexico june 2006

- How did you start painting on the body of beautiful women?
I decided to wondering, after more than 15 years of painting, what I could do to mix everything I love in my life, I mean, graffiti, traveling, girls, photography. I was quite easy to come to the "BubbleGirls" concept. The main idea is to find girls in the streets of a lots of cities around the world (New York, Cologne, Toulouse, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, London, Auckland, Sydney, Montreal...) ask them if they are OK for a shooting quite intimate after I painted on their body. To finish I paint a big wall with their names with my best Bubble style. It really cool to have a new approach of my art cause the human aspect of the experience changes everything. You communicate with your suport, thing which is hard with a wall!!!
- How did you get that kind of intimacy with them in order to allow you to paint on their bodies?
Sometimes I don t realy understand. I think girls like and trust me, that s it!!! I look like a cool guy that you can do crazy thing with and not feeling ashame or guilty. Or maybe I m just super lucky... To be honest, I think it s all about freedom ! I never ask a girl to be naked, she is suppose to show me, only what she wants to show me. At the same time they is no make up artist, no light assistant, no stylist. We do all that together in a very simple idea, the BubbleGirl have to feel good. Then if there is a girl who wants to be totaly nude, dirty, super sexy and more, she will feel free to it cause nobody gonna tell her to wear this or that to be in the trend. At the opposit, a shy girl who does want to show even her tits will feel good cause I won t push her to do it. The result is that they are simply wonderful cause they are free and they are smiling . I love that !!!
- Have you ever fell in love with a girl you painted?
I hope so... But the ultimate BubleGirl is always the one I m looking for.
- What kind of pleasure do you think they get by letting you paint on them?
You should try, then you can understand... I don t really know cause I m on the other side of the marker but there is something quite sexual. It s like going closer and closer to a border that you don t know if you will cross it or not during the whole painting and shooting. I think they like the way that I m concentrated on what I m doing on their bodies in the idea of making them more pretty.
- Do you think body graffiti as a fetish?
I m a natural born fetishist. I m sure that after high heels, it s gonna be my new one.