DATWA / Long Beach, California
Art you
take outside.
Painted subjects, architectural lines and raw marks, brought together on the same shirt.
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Behind the artwork
Cyrus, Long Beach.
Architecture taught Cyrus to think in structure, proportion and space. Skate and surf culture gave him another visual language: deck graphics, worn concrete, water and movement.
DATWA brings those references into clothing. A precise drawing can sit beside a rough mark. A painted figure can break through a frame. The subject changes from collection to collection; that tension stays.
The work has to read across a room and reward a closer look. Then it has to work with the clothes you already wear.
Inside the artwork
Three layers.
One composition.
- 01
The subject
A warrior, a cathedral, a machine, a wave. A recognizable subject gives each piece a place to begin.
- 02
The structure
Architectural lines cut through the image. Cables, frames and impossible geometries give familiar forms another dimension.
- 03
The interruption
Scrawls, arrows and bursts of color disturb the precision. Those rough edges stay in the finished composition.
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