The collective is greater than the corporation - Artists against the machine A group of titans stands atop us, demanding ever more of our space, and that we pay a subscription for the privilege of what little we have left... Read more at : www.romangraffiti.blog/post/the-col...

Swarm Tactics- Focusing collectives to amplify messages. You feel stuck, helpless. They’ve flooded the feed with noise, so genuine cries can hardly be heard. The news cycle a deranged treadmill chewing our legs off... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/swarm-t...

Optical alignment - Misplaced notions and outrage. You’ll see these posts occasionally they’ll take a logo from a large brand, draw centre lines across them, and gleefully tweet about how “big company make dumb mistake” because the image doesn’t line up. www.romangraffiti.blog/post/optical...

Divine intervention - Shock, Disruption and Senselessness in art. This notion of shock, of disruption, recurs throughout art history. Each time it occurs it brings forth discussion, and in the ideal, that discussion brings needed change... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/divine-...

You don’t need permission - Guerrilla Art. From the performance art of protest and its painted placards, through intermingled poetry with political outcry, to replacing a companies hold music with “ciao Bella”, art is needed everywhere now... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-don...

They replaced it all with grey - The importance of graffiti No one ever asked the people if they could destroy the forest. No one asked you if they could block the blue sky with grey bricks and blind the stars with lesser lights... Read the full post at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/they-re...

One of my few physical artworks. A series of printed receipts & poems documenting and reflecting on the aids epidemic. They denote death toll and moments of defiance These receipts were then scanned in, recompiled, and printed on birchwood to decompose.

We need more political art. So much more. In fact we, as the contemporary wave of artists and collectors, have a responsibility to raise our voices with hard spoken words. For we teeter on the edge of loss So we need maps drawn to guide us back to hope & deliver us from evil.

Today‘s sketch: A disturbed boy 2025 (Experimental character design)

No angel will reach out to stay our hand. We must accept that the choice is ours. Do we sacrifice the needs of tomorrow, to indulge our wants today? Do we lick the boot? Or help pry it off the necks of others.

If there are limitations, create strengths around them. Dont bastardise an idea by forcing it in to another’s skin. Art first, always.

The Aftermath of Greed This building stood for over 100 years, it had protected status. The newest owners left it, much needed housing, vacant, derelict, rotting, for a decade. Simply because the land was more profitable without the building The city was recently forced to destroy it for safety.

NASA and JPLs DSN explored through art. Typography, illustration, and digital collage combine with subtle elements of poetry. Focused in particular on Canberra. I sourced the collage elements by collecting and scanning a large amount of vintage paperwork.

A definite contender for my favourite photo of those I’ve taken. The area is a set of overpasses, the pedestrian is just emerging from a tunnel that has a LED billboard in it providing the backlight. Shot at 200mm handheld, stretching up over a wall, leaning beneath a railing.

Moments

putting words in my mouth

Sometimes photos aren’t perfectly sharp or in focus for whatever reason, but that’s not always an excuse to discard them. Else you run the risk of cutting off your nose to spite your face”

We won’t be stopped; Be it poverty or madness, missing parts or materials, from glaucoma to government restriction… We wont be stopped. Because we can’t stop, the world is too much for us not to react to it, we are violently artistic. We won’t stop.

I didn’t expect fall in love with street photography so much. It’s forcing me to face my social anxiety, at the same time as helping me expand my creative outlook and skill set

Getting better at finding photos and following the light. Trying to vary my editing so as to treat each photo as its own piece, rather than just throw my presets at them.

Trying to improve everyday, hunting light, having patience when I find a spot. All the moments in between taking the photos

Sunset street photography practice around Vancouver

Today’s practice was daylight shooting. Stood waiting for what felt like forever for anyone to walk through here. Realised being patient in the colds hard.

Carried on practicing street photography today, at 200mm I’m locked to f/6.3 so they’re a bit noisy and not perfectly sharp.

Tactile expressive typography art. Combining collage, print making, and braille embossing to make “concrete” poetry that is accessible both visually and through touch.

Looking forward to practicing more street photography whilst I’m in Vancouver

“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all” Type matching these scanned documents and replacing sections with poetry, whilst collaging them all together in to art pieces.

I’d like to connect with more contemporary artists, particularly typographers and artists blending conceptual work with their technical practice.

Created this artwork focused on how small differences can fundamentally alter our perception. Utilised a photo of my astigmatised eyes fundus and other visual language of measuring sight.

The first direct image of another 'solar system' Space

Still a lot of work to do on this. A celebration of human achievement told through collaging historic nasa paperwork, interweaving it with poetry and art.

Somedays you spend an hour looking for fonts to match a scanned document, all so you can collage it in to a corner of an art piece and replace a few words with poetry. The endless back and forth between the minutia and the macro.

I was fortunate enough to exhibit this artwork in London at The Old Sessions House. The most inspiring comment someone left me about it was that “it’s nice to see work that holds a challenge, that’s trying to say something difficult” A reminder that your art should seek truth, not just beauty

“Cultural receipts” A series of artwork using fictitious receipts to provide commentary on major cultural events. Here multiple receipts document the years in the aids epidemic and the administration’s response. Scanned in and composited before being printed on 35” square of birch wood.

Typographic representation of our cellular inception.

Continuing to collage historic nasa/JPL paperwork in to representations of the broader work that was accomplished. Art is a fantastic vehicle for bringing life to a life’s work and stories

Animated poetry exploring our relationship with art and machines.

Working on interweaving poetry with technical schematics and memorandums. Attempting to highlight the passion of someone’s life work and the artistry found in a life and those it works alongside.

Recently created this piece, a fictional U.I part of a larger collection that deals with representing our attempts to impose order and structure on the way we interface with our world. Inspired by Star Wars & other sci-fi work, I mocked it up in a scene from rogue one to check its diegetic nature.

SPEAK - Listed for offers - 50% to charity Ive listed this piece for 250 sol. I want to be clear that this is very much open to any offer, i set it at this price to try and maximise the amount for charity Speak truth to power Speak art to truth Who art thou & Who speaks for you

Hoodie samples came in to pair with the newest edition piece, Bluesky vibes.

Touch grass, touch life, touch it all. Touch sky, touch calm, touch impossible.

Our desire to explore, not for conquest or material gain, but in a pursuit of knowledge, is one of the most beautiful facets of humanity. This piece celebrates that using the schematics for Cassini as a base on to which art and poetry are overlayed celebrating its journey and the knowledge gained.

A moment breaks the surface tension, reminds of us of our place. As though nature tagged our mentions, and joy liked our face.

Still refining and making final decisions on this piece. It seeks to address the oppressive genocidal legislation that is being wielded against the LGBTQ community. It focuses on our underlying commonality whilst it addresses the danger in failing to speak against injustice.

Something I love about using a conceptual message intrinsically linked to a medium is that it allows me to explore more varied aesthetics whilst retaining a unified body of work. Also it’s incredibly satisfying see the sheer range of what can be achieved with letterforms and typographic elements.

In time their separation of humanity and state will leave us all pinned to the dish. Laboratory experiments we’re broken down, mislead, dissected. Nothing more to them than data on a chart, their callous greeds distortion, poorly defibrillates our hearts.

The magic in a moonrise, that mirrored sun with times patina. Surrounded by stars fireflies, we see beauty all the clearer. In ironic disguise, darkness shows truths dreamer.

DOUBT - 10240 x 8192 px Find the pieces within That are broken without You are awareness of being Despite that callous doubt

We are art, ever striving for a larger canvas so as to complete the picture of ourselves. Just looking for a little more perspective on how we got here and what we felt. We are masterpieces inscribed on calcium and cells, we are incomplete, we are beautiful, we are heaven, holding back hell.