TOAST “SHENZHEN” / WALL ON DAFEN ART MUSEUM CHINA / ACRYLIC / 2010 ©

TYPOGRAPHY IS THE ESSENCE OF GRAFFITIWRITING

The goal of this piece is to showcase the synergy and connections between typography, graffiti and architecture – the third dimension.
In order to emphasize the pure straight and angular core message, organic forms were avoided on purpose. All other popular decorations like outlines, effects etc fell victim to reduction and purification which raises the challenge to create an esthetic union.

The essential elements are being repeated over and over, from the smallest unit, the angle, to the letter and to the resulting word, the “style”.  This repetitive way of working can also be found in the rhythm of architecture, but it is especially important in graffitiwriting where each writer constantly repeats his name.

The scheme of the elementary colors red blue and white is used to separate the singular elements from another and push the legibility. Luck and wealth, symbolized by the color red, as well as the direct opposite, grief and death, in this case white, are being carried into immortality into the blue sky by heart-shaped balloons.