While there is less detailed documentation about formal academic art degrees, the siblings began their artistic journey in the streets of São Paulo. They initially engaged in break-dancing, hip-hop culture, and graffiti in the 1980s, and by 1987, they began spray‐painting graffiti under the name Os Gemeos. Their graffiti practice evolved with brushes, roller,s and façade paints (owing to limited access to spray cans) and they used the city as their studio.
