Pixação is the name given to a unique form of graffiti native to Brazil. It typically involves scaling buildings and painting big stylised letters using rollers or spraypaint whilst avoiding vigilantes and police with guns. It is mainly practised by the dispossessed and is completely uncompromising in its approach. In 2008, a group of pixação writers or “pixadores” as they are known as, destroyed Choque Cultural Gallery in Sao Paulo as a protest at what they see as the commoditisation of street art.
I have no plans personally to do something similar, although after visiting Bristol’s Arnolfini today I must say I’m tempted.
Here’s an alphabet I knocked out a while ago, based on the typical Pixação style.