alphabet architecture
Words that hit different. Whether it’s something Sleven’s penned from his chaotic depths or borrowed from the wise and twisted, this section celebrates the power of letters when they’re dressed to kill. From drippy tags & chiselled calligraphy to bubble gum fonts & hip-hop hieroglyphs, every piece fuses meaning with visual flair. Some stand loud and proud, others creep in subtle, backed by scenes, faces, or moods that match the message. Truth, humour, rage or peace, whatever the flavour, it’s all written with style and soul.
Love is everywhere, you just gotta know where to look! As a child, I loved bugs, as do most children. I loved reading about them, drawing them and collecting them. As an adult, I don’t love bugs so much , still respects them and found love in other places but this is a reminder that we can find love anywhere. If we just open our hearts to that inner child, that’s full of wonder n awe and doesn’t give a fuck about what people think. Then we can truly find love anywhere.
Deaths just the door to the next chapter! People & cultures all have their own theories and beliefs on what happens to us once we cease to exist in our current forms. I belief we’re all just energy, all just consciousness, experiencing its self. And once we pass, our energy goes to another body, or another dimension or another universe or back to source, whatever source may be. This image represents what a trip that could be, to die and open the door on the next chapter of existence. It’s also about ego death and how taking a heavy dose of hallucinogenics can cause an ego death and in turn be like the physical death of your old self and starting the next chapter as completely different being. This can also happen through self growth. Things may not be as visually exaggerated and out there, as they are behind this door here but a vibrantly colourful form of appreciation for the world can emerge.
To quote a Rodney P lyric……"Suck Ya Mudda!"
Words are spells, careful what you cast. In the beginning there was the word and the word was OM! The word Om, like all words, is a sound, and sounds are just frequencies. Frequencies can and do affect matter and energy. Negative words carry negative energy, that’s negative frequencies right there. So if you’re putting negative words out there, into the ether, no matter whom it’s directed at, them words can not only have a negative affect on the people in close vicinity but also a negative affect on self and even people that aren’t around. If you’re to constantly complain about how staff are rude in your local shop, they’re always going to be rude because they’re unconsciously sensing your negative energy and you’re also priming your energy to create a negative field of energy about yourself. This shit can make you ill! So be careful what you cast cos words truly do cast like spells!
Without a border
Life is Fear Embrace it, it’ll make you mentally n emotionally bulletproof. Also everything looks a lot more cutesy n colourful once you do.
MSN paint version
Simplified
Basic
Gangsta Rap Ruined My Life, Hip-Hop Saved It! A simple quote with a back story. Back in the 90s when I first discovered gangster rap, through watching The Word on channel 4 and seeing the likes of Cypress Hill and Snoop Dog. I quickly gained a fascination with gangsta rap through the music and films he consumed throughout the 90s. During this time, I had also discovered hip-hop but gangsta rap held more of a spell over me. It wasn’t till later in the 90s and early 2000s that hip-hop started to dominate his taste more. He donates his misled teenage youth of troublesome behaviour, partly down to the effect that G-rap n hood flicks had on me. My leaning towards hip-hop, turned me on to an introspective view of my mindless misdemeanours and led to a more riotous path of knowledge, self awareness, community, peace and love. All fundamentals of what it is to be a true hip-hop head. The gangsta rap was hard ingrained into my melon though and it wasn’t till I got into my 30s that I felt I’d dissolved that materialistic, hard headed, hood out of my system. So if I’d not focused more on hip-hop, there’s a good chance I'd just been another statistic to the mean streets of the East Midlands shire 🤣
Alphabet hand styling
Sleven bat skulls
Sleven skulls
Look, I made a face out of my name!
Sez SLEV mush! King of kings, queen of cunts 👑
I likes writing vertically. Makes the lettering look more fancy
Alien samurai markings
Like a sword 🗡️
Five finger future funk
Abstract slev…….slevstract
S to death shun
S
Best slasher ever
A night on the lash down the Croft
Big farma Sleven
Sleven the hippie
Sleven…..where’s my monocle gone?
SLEVEN YOU MUG!
Look, it’s a goose! How many geese can you spot?
Something reminiscent of 90s nes game scenery but not in 8bit
Shut it butthead, Metallica suck but Beavis kicks ass!
Handstyles mush!
Don’t talk to me!
Question Everything Always question everything!
Evolve or Die!
Life Is Fear
Antisocial Artist Leave me alone I’m busy being in touch with my inner emo.
Eat Shit, Sleep Shit, Consumer Shit, Die Shit!!! How do you expect to feel, if all you consume is 💩
Life is Pain It’s also love but without the pain, you wouldn’t know the love.
To quote Stig of the Dump, Fuck Off And Die Twice!
You’re already dead so you may as well live! One thing that’s a guarantee in this physical realm and it’s death. Too often humans are too scared to die, they never truly live. If they only realised that by doing that, they’re already dead so may as well give living a go, ay?
Life is fear
I am not my past I am not my past I am not my past Repetition is key when reprogramming a faulty program
Evolve or die
Evolve or die dub a dub
KILL YOUR 9 TO 5
Villainous Hieroglyphs
Sleven Ambigram
Ambigram
Ambigram
And another ambigram
This one’s got a drop shadow
This also has a drop a drop shadow and it’s more swirly…….oooww, fancy!
This one’s a drippy one. They even letters mush?
More drips!
And more drips
Oh look, a heart, cute!
Drippy heart one
Sci-fi one
90s dark DnB vibes Ambigram
This looks like it’s from the 90s as well
Oooow, a cat Version
Drippy chisel tip
More chiselling
Samurai marksman
Who’s this guy, thinks he’s Keith Herring, more like Chief Lemon