Profile
SinDee grew up on a farm near Lake Baikal in Siberia and still carries its blues, its silence and its long walks into her work. A founding member of the Klitty Crew, the grey tabby in the pink KC beanie and sunglasses has found many of the crew's walls, led murals such as "Baikal Blue" and the forest lake in Oerlikon, and taught colour to children and neighbours. She travels on her own hard-earned money, speaks her mind freely and has little patience for arrogance. Today her murals and merchandise give her a good living – and the freedom to keep discovering.
Timeline
- 2001Born by Lake Baikal
SinDee is born on a farm by Lake Baikal in Siberia, surrounded by animals, forests and endless water.
- 2000sFarm by Lake Baikal
Grew up on a farm surrounded by animals near Lake Baikal, where you walked for hours to reach the next neighbour.
- Teenage yearsSeeing the world
Travelled the world on money she earned herself, never considering an honest job beneath her.
- 2017Founding member of the Klitty Crew
Founded the Klitty Crew in Zurich with DeeNice, Kinky and PoshX on 17 July 2017 at 17:17. Read more →
- 2017First sticker run
Her pink-beanie sticker won the crew's first sticker vote; she planned the first run through Kreis 4 and 5 on foot. Read more →
- 2018A home for Seventeen
Walked Zürich West for three weekends with Kinky and secured the wall for the crew's first big mural, Seventeen. Read more →
- 2018Summer street jam
Led the planning of the crew's first street jam in Kreis 4 with seven guest painters – under one rule: nobody acts like a star. Read more →
- 2019Baikal Blue
Pitched and painted "Baikal Blue", a lake from her childhood on a wall in Kreis 4. Read more →
- 2020Windows and birds
Proposed painting windows during lockdown and designed the row of mountain birds for the community-centre garden wall in Oerlikon. Read more →
- 2021Open Again and the slow route north
Painted the ice-blue sky of "Open Again" and planned the crew's train-and-ferry route to Stockholm. Read more →
- 2022Forest lake in Oerlikon
Led her first crew wall since "Baikal Blue": a forest turning into a lake, with grandkittens painting the leaves. Read more →
- 2023Colour workshop
Taught a characters-and-colour workshop in which participants found eleven different cold blues. Read more →
- 2023Home to Siberia
Travelled back to the farm by the lake and returned with sketchbooks full of birches and frozen fences. Read more →
- 2024Neighbours' afternoons in Oerlikon
Began leading drawing afternoons for older neighbours in Oerlikon. Read more →
- 2024Sky of the Klitty Skyline
Spent days at the top of the scaffold painting the sky and water of the crew's biggest wall. Read more →
- 2025Journey east
Travelled east for five weeks on money from her murals and came back convinced that a sticker is 'a small free sentence'. Read more →
- 2026Quality keeper of the merch
Tested every sticker and washed the T-shirt samples eleven times before they went live. Read more →
Murals & projects
| Year | Work | Place | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | KC Hello | Zurich, Kreis 5 | Pink outlines |
| 2018 | Seventeen | Zurich, Zürich West | Found the wall; lake and outlines |
| 2018 | Autumn wall | Zurich, Wiedikon | Outlines and characters |
| 2019 | Baikal Blue | Zurich, Kreis 4 | Idea, colours and lead; shore cat with PoshX |
| 2020 | Thank-you wall | Zurich, Kreis 4 | Wild flowers from the fields near home |
| 2020 | Bird wall | Zurich, Oerlikon (community-centre garden) | Mountain birds from her sketchbook |
| 2021 | Open Again | Zurich, Zürich West | Ice-blue sky |
| 2022 | Bridge wall | Stockholm, by the water | Ice-blue water |
| 2022 | Forest lake | Zurich, Oerlikon | Lead; walking cat by the shore |
| 2023 | Tile mural | Zurich, Zürich West | Cold blue waves – Baikal meets the Atlantic |
| 2024 | Klitty Skyline | Zurich, Zürich West | Sky and water |
| 2026 | Where It Started | Zurich, Kreis 5 | Background – a long, wide sky |
Travels
- 2019 – Berlin (crew trip)
- 2019 – Barcelona (crew trip, hill walk)
- 2020 – Swiss mountains (ten days hut to hut)
- 2021 – Swiss mountains (three weeks walking)
- 2022 – Stockholm (by train and ferry)
- 2022 – Two weeks along cold coasts
- 2023 – Lisbon (sketching trip)
- 2023 – Siberia (home to the farm by the lake)
- 2024 – Paris (Zulu Lettre at the Globo)
- 2025 – Paris (Zulu Lettre at the Globo)
- 2025 – Five weeks travelling east
- 2025 – Barcelona ("Four Cats, One Sea")
- 2026 – Paris (Zulu Lettre at the Globo; letter lesson)
The Klitty Crew is a comic universe – all stories, meetings and events on this blog are fiction. Real artists, magazines and places only appear as inspiration; no real meetings, statements or endorsements are implied.