This renowned graffiti artist tackles social issues and the MTA by modifying NYC subway ads.
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00:00None of my work is commissioned, it's all illegal, which is why I'm partially covering my face.
00:22There are countless women doing this work, in even more risky situations than I'm in.
00:30This is my story.
00:34Ladies and gentlemen.
00:42What I like to do is alter ads in the subway to reflect corruption or the dysfunction of what's going on.
00:50The last piece I did was on a G-train platform.
00:56What I did was change the word Pete to Jared, and I put Jared Kushner's face on the bloody wad of $100 bills to reflect the corruption in real estate.
01:09My bread and butter stuff is chemical warfare, and just bringing that into the public eye.
01:16We're not familiar with combat on a daily basis.
01:20To see a toddler or a child wearing some instrument of war is unsettling for some people.
01:38When I started, writers and journalists would default to the pronoun he, his work.
01:43The street art community kind of rallied behind me. I didn't even have to do anything.
01:49Someone said, you know, just a heads up, Jilly's female, you might want to alter your article, and voila.
01:58And that piqued even more people's interest that there's one more woman in the game.
02:02What I've come to realize is that it was never an alter ego. That's definitely who I am.
02:08I think that's kind of interesting when you're an artist for so long doing something, you realize that that's actually who you were.
02:15I kind of just discovered myself.