India ink on brown craft paper (91 x 67 cm)
no frame

Bubblewrapped:

Unanonymous:

S5:

In a small interview the artist has said about these three pieces: “The three works in the exhibition are of various degrees of simplicity/complexity. My work is very much about the beauty of simplicity. Even the simplest things can have very complex meaning to the viewer.

The work called ‘S5′ is a good example of that. It is the last piece of five similar Calligraffiti works that show the letter S. In the graffiti-world it is a known fact that the S is the most difficult letter in the alphabet, but when done properly can be very strong. (I have written a small essay about the letter S in the book Post Graffiti.) For me letters have personalities. And words are a symphony of those characters. I have to match them carefully.

This you can see in ‘Bubble Wrapped’. The B is the leader type that sends the other letters to their positions. The double b’s and p’s are a gift. The term Bubble Wrapped refers to the bubbly plastic. When you are in love it feels like you are together rolled in a big roll of bubble-wrap. The ink is less glossy than in the other pieces. I use this diluted ink sometimes because it creates nice shades of grey.

‘Unanonymous’ is a more abstract Calligraffiti piece. Look at it as a song. Maybe you don’t get all the lyrics, but it’s more about the rhythm and overall impression. The title is about the basic urge that a graffiti writer has; to show that he exists. He will not be anonymous like everybody else. Hence Unanonymous. The word isn’t in the dictionary but has a beautiful flow, even when broken down into Una-non-ymous. If you look closely you’ll be able to read ‘I know why the caged bird sings’. I think birds wants to be noticed and are saying ‘listen what I can do!’. Caged birds sing the blues.”