How To Leave Your Job And Become A Street Artist, According To Miss Me

Before she was a street artist, roaming the city after nightfall and adorning walls, bus stops and phone booths with her original imagery, Miss Me worked as the senior art director of an ad agency. In the short film above, the Montreal-based artist describes the seductive facade of the advertising industry, and the eventual realization that she needed out. At her job, Miss Me was creating and promoting superficial and oversimplified images of women and sexuality that ran counter to her core beli...