Inkebana
The art of arranging ink on paper
Description
Inkebana plays on two words: ink and ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging flowers. Where ikebana arranges flowers with balance, space and intention, my work arranges ink on paper: lettering, collage and abstract forms, placed with the same care.
I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. Lettering came naturally to me early on, and that instinct eventually pulled me into the world of graffiti during my teenage years.
Those years shaped my visual language: the rhythm of tags, the energy of urban lettering, and the discipline of developing a personal handstyle.
Over time, I refined that handstyle into something uniquely mine; a writing system built from graffiti roots but evolved into a more personal, expressive form.
Today, it’s the foundation of most of my work.
My art now blends those early graffiti influences with collage, abstract forms, and my own lettering.
Recently, I’ve been exploring a direction that mixes urban graffiti culture with futurist visual cues, creating scenes inspired by everyday life, the environments I move through, and the things I observe. Along the way, I’ve discovered how much artists like Fortunato Depero and Erberto Carboni have shaped my taste for bold shapes, dynamic compositions, and graphic tension.
I enjoy experimenting beyond traditional formats: from acrylics on canvas to risograph printing, from digital work to 3D-printed pieces, ink on paper, ecc...
For me, the process is about pushing materials, mixing techniques, and letting that urban energy carry into new mediums.
Mediums
- Drawing
- Ink on paper
- Painting
- Acrylic on canvas
- Water-based
- Gouaches
- Risography
- Mixed media
- Collage
- Object
- 3D sculpture