Rafael Calazans a.k.a. highraff

The intensity of creativity and imagination.

The urban lifestyle, tied to a visceral need for expression, led Rafael Highraff to use the city as a basis for his creations.

His first contact with art, through graffiti, was transcended with a mixture of contemporary influences (like design, illustration and cartoon) and ancestral/classic inspirations (as the sacred
geometry of nature, spirituality, surrealism and psychedelic art.
The compulsive repetition process of his paintings on thestreets contributed for an upgrade of his technique and development of a personal language, reinforcing a style andvisual identity, both with unmistakable traits.

In his creative process, organic and geometric forms are born from a natural gesture, flowing with tenderness and harmony, like an organism developing itself with accuracy.