Objects / Archive / Material Practice

Pessoa

Objects made from the memory of walls.
Sand to reveal
What is Pessoa

An ongoing material practice

Pessoa is an ongoing material practice. Objects are created from reclaimed layers of graffiti paint, metal, and other urban surfaces. The materials are sanded, reshaped, and revealed rather than polished away. Every layer is a record of time. No two pieces are identical because no wall is identical.

Objects

Selected works

Pessoa Ring No. 07

Reclaimed paint strata / polished steel

2026

Pessoa Ring No. 07

Reclaimed paint strata / polished steel

2026

Pessoa Ring No. 07

Reclaimed paint strata / polished steel

2026

Material

Excavation, not decoration

Most Pessoa objects begin as compressed layers of discarded graffiti paint. These layers are cut, shaped, and sanded to expose the internal topography of the material. The result resembles demascus steel — but instead of metal alloys, the pattern is made from years of accumulated paint. Every color band is a moment from the life of a wall.

Sand to reveal
Sand to reveal
Pessoa

Objects with identity

Pessoa means "person." The project is built around the idea that objects carry identity in the same way people do. Wear, damage, and imperfection are not flaws. They are evidence of experience. Pessoa objects are designed to reveal that history.

Archive

Beyond objects

Pessoa is expanding beyond objects. Future plans include exhibitions, artist collaborations, and the development of a permanent archive focused on graffiti history and urban material culture. The long-term vision is the Pessoa Institute — a space dedicated to preserving black books, artifacts, interviews, and works from artists who shaped the visual language of the city.

Objects and collaborations

View selected works, inquire about commissions, or join the transmission for future drops, exhibitions, and releases.

the composed signal

i3arrow

songs shaped by memory, grief, love, and transformation

i3arrow creates music as a form of emotional excavation. each piece is pulled from lived experience — loss, desire, addiction, healing, and the slow process of becoming.

featured work

the front crawl

a beginning disguised as survival. a record made from freestyles, documenting movement through grief, addiction, and change.

the work moves between rap, atmosphere, melody, and raw transmission. this is the composed signal.

love, forgiveness, and healing exist outside of time. the music lives there.

each release is a document of becoming — not a finished answer, but a preserved state of motion.

this page is not just a catalog. it is a signal source — the place where the music and the self meet.

selected works

project 2026

the front crawl

a short emotional line that frames the piece.

project 2026

the front crawl

a short emotional line that frames the piece.

project 2026

the front crawl

a short emotional line that frames the piece.

this is an ongoing process. nothing here is finished. everything here is becoming.