“I would bet my name is more known than the Mayor of my city, but fame will not pay the rent. In a little while my boy will drop in to go on a little later to decorate a proper object with letters. The target is still unknown, but it will definitely be a wall of a tunnel or a supporting wall along the railway line. I’m convinced that graffiti doesn’t randomly belong everywhere. Private property is a no-no. But railway lines, tunnels, motor ways and big grey concrete complexes call out to me to paint them. I want my works to cause a stir, not distrust and hate.”
Smash began his career as a writer in 1990 and later studied graphic design at the Gestalterischer Vorkurs at Olten in 
Where ever you are, there you are. Stefan Strumbel’s work investigates the idea of a spiritual home or ‘Heimat’, with no immediate past. His fusion of the visual landscape and legacy of the historic Schwarz Wald combined with a contemporary design sense, reveals a gap in history which Strumbel attempts to close by drawing on popular visual culture. By appropriating certain rituals and relics, he forms a relationship to his own heritage which then allows him to alter the associations previously connected to them. This intervention preserves their former connotations and the effort to revitalize them through the Pop lens, thereby revealing the authority and unmistakable strength of popular culture and its ability to transform.