I've been a photographer for 12 years. Not studio photography, primarily urban exploration. Abandoned buildings, forgotten infrastructure, the hidden layers of cities or towns that most people go past without a second glance. That's where my eye was trained.
And somewhere along the way, it changed everything about how I make art.
What Urban Exploration Actually Teaches You
Urbex isn't just about finding interesting locations. It's about learning to see things other can’t. You develop a sensitivity to texture, decay, light, and composition that you can't get anywhere else. Every crumbling wall is a study in color. Every rusted surface is a lesson in how time transforms material.
But the thing that stopped me in my tracks again and again was the graffiti.
Finding Graffiti. Then Falling Into It.
In the spaces most people never enter, graffiti exists without an audience. It's not performative. It's pure expression; raw, layered, sometimes chaotic, always with some kind of purpose. Sometimes it’s stunningly beautiful and sometimes it’s just purely disruptive, but that doesn’t change the authenticity of this form of expression. I’ve photographed thousands of pieces over the years and the common denominator is they all invoke emotion.
Eventually, observation wasn't enough. I needed to have my own part in it.
The Birth of Alien Graffiti
My own take on the form didn't start with letters. It started with organic shapes, flowing forms that felt natural. Where traditional graffiti often draws from typography or calligraphy, I was pulling from something more biological: the kind of shapes you find in nature, in everyday life, in things that feel alive but don’t have a physical breath.
I call it Alien Graffiti. It carries the energy and visual language of street art, the boldness, the layering, the style of unseen expression I so deeply resonated with. The shapes themselves though, feel like they arrived from somewhere else entirely. The precision is painstakingly deliberate. These shapes are clean in a way that street art rarely is, and that contrast is part of what gives that inexplicable Alien feel. Organic. Otherworldly. Unmistakably mine.