TD - Tempero Diabetico [1985] - Karana Mudra

TD - Diabetic Temper, Portuguese and in graffiti since 1999.
This painting is named KARANA MUDRA (2025).
Collector's item, accompanied by a COA, authenticity certificate signed by the artist and stamped. Hand-signed on the back with an acrylic ink pen.
Hand-painted, 100% spray and with a height of 116cm and a width of 96cm. It weighs around 600g.
Shipped rolled in a shipping tube via courier.

This mudra is a way to ward off evil and negativity. According to religious and cultural beliefs, it can help remove mental blocks.
It is also known as the Banishing Gesture, as it can divert or eliminate negative emotions, illnesses and demons.

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I have been a urban art artist since 1999 with roots in graffiti and a language built on the street. Spray is my main tool, both on walls and on canvases, functioning as a direct extension of the gesture, urgency and embraced imperfection.
I live with ADHD, with attention deficit being the trait that most influences my creative process. For years I treated it as an obstacle, but today I recognise it as an essential part of my artistic identity.
My attention is random and intermittent, and this is reflected in how I construct images.
I discovered that my works reach their most honest state when they are only 60 to 65% finished. It is at that point that I feel the painting is finished. Beyond that, the pleasure disappears and continuing would only be answering to an external expectation of finishing.
Thus, the unfinished became a conscious choice and a central concept of my work. After years fighting ADHD, I understood that it is not my enemy, but the raw material of my expression. My works live in that open space — unfinished, in motion and alive.