The Art of Dmote for The Detroit Beautification Project

 Hailing from Australia DMOTE (Shannon Peel) has a seriously diverse creative resume, none of which was particularly planned. He started writing graffiti in 1985 upon a move to Sydney but his affinity with the hip hop movement began years earlier. Living in the country and already heavily into b-boying he and his friends sought out all the material on this culture they could, watching movies and documentaries like Beat Street, Break Dance, Wild Style, and Style Wars. Like the rest of the world outside NYC, this was how he and his friends found out about the culture that was exploding within it.