Interview with Spider Tag: Geometry, Neon, and the Power of the Line in his new Studio Works

GraffitiStreet

Your new works for Concrete & Colour are called Triangle Line Blue & Green and Lines & Yellow. What was the conceptual starting point for these pieces?

Spidertag

These works are really about reducing everything to the core: the line, which I presented on the streets of Campos, Mallorca in 2016. For years, my murals have evolved into complex networks of symbols and forms, but here I wanted to explore simplicity of my own begins in the streets using disruptive materials with purpose.

Triangle Line Blue & Green is about grounding and balance, anchoring the line. Lines & Yellow is about release and rhythm, letting it move through space. Together, they form two expressions of the same visual language.

Spidertag: On streets of Campos, Mallorca in August 2016

GraffitiStreet

Let’s first talk about Triangle Line Blue & Green for Concrete & Colour. It’s incredibly minimal, a triangle and a single line. Looking at your street pieces why strip it back so far?

Spidertag

Because sometimes the clearest messages are the quietest. Triangle Line Blue & Green is a meditation on stillness and structure. The triangle is one of the most stable forms, it represents balance, strength, even transformation. Then you have this green line, parallel to one of the edges. It doesn’t interrupt, it resonates. It adds tension without aggression. That’s the kind of energy I wanted: contained, contemplative, precise. I spent many years doing triangles in the streets with cables powered by batteries that had an amazing neon street’s effect.

I first presented Triangle in 2017 in Malmö, within an industrial space defined by its raw concrete and utilitarian edges. Against that backdrop, the piece felt completely at home, a minimalist statement that spoke softly, yet resonated deeply. It was a moment where form, space, and material came together, allowing the work to breathe and assert its presence without shouting for attention. Hence with the show title Concrete & Colour I wanted to revisit this street piece from 8 years previously.

Spidertag: Triangle in 2017 in Malmö. Image Credit Futuroberg, April 2017

GraffitiStreet

I love the connection. Why did you choose blue & green neon colours for Triangle Line? What role does colour play in the mood of the piece?

Spidertag

Colour is everything, it’s emotional architecture. Blue is calm, rational, cool, it evokes space and clarity. Green introduces contrast, but gently. It has energy but also harmony. There’s a psychological balance between them, blue brings grounding, green brings flow. Together, they set a quiet but charged tone. It’s minimal, but not cold.

Spidertag – Triangle Line Blue Green (2025)

GraffitiStreet

In contrast, Lines & Yellow is full of colour and movement. How did you approach the composition for that piece?

Spidertag

Lines & yellow is the opposite of stillness, it’s motion, vibration, rhythm. The line travels through a specific colour sequence: Blue to Orange to Yellow to Green to Purple. That wasn’t random, it’s intentional. It’s me letting the line move freely, like graffiti made of light. It pulses like a city and it’s alive. Also it was took from the Interactive Neon Mural #22 done in Italy last year, one of my best murals done in my carrer but with a new and specific details…

The order of colour plays with contrast and harmony. There are bold complementary shifts, blue to orange, and smoother, analogous transitions, yellow into green. Then green moves into purple. This isn’t an end, but a new phase in the journey, its a subtle contrast that propels the rhythm forward.

All the lines stand parallel and upright, holding tension except one. The yellow line breaks rank. This moment of deviation isn’t disruption; it’s evolution, a change that drives the motion forward.

The piece doesn’t conclude, it moves, unfolding through colour, creating a visual momentum that won’t sit still, a pulse that shifts, vibrates, and continues to evolve.

It’s a chromatic rhythm, a pulse that’s felt more than seen.

Spidertag – Lines & Yellow (2025)

GraffitiStreet

Is there a symbolic system behind the colours and forms you use? Do they belong to a broader mythology in your work?

Spidertag

Yes, absolutely. I’ve been building a symbolic system, a unique language over time with triangles, lines, colours, directions. They’re not random; they’re a visual syntax. Like a written language that people feel, even if they can’t translate it exactly.

For example the triangle is a foundational symbol – change, direction, balance. The line is everything: it marks, it moves, it connects. Colours are codes. They’re emotional, spatial, symbolic. I don’t use them casually. When you see these elements together, they’re part of a language I’ve been building across walls and rooftops for years. It’s abstract, but intentional.

GraffitiStreet

How do these works relate to your larger street-based practice, especially your murals and public interventions?

Spidertag

They’re deeply connected. They are extensions of the same language, just in a different environment. On the street, scale and environment add chaos. You react to space in real time. With neon artworks in the GraffitiStreet gallery, you control space differently but the language is the same. These works are more focused, distilled. It’s like hearing a full band live and then hearing the same song as a stripped down solo … it’s still the same message.

GraffitiStreet

Why neon? What draws you to working with light?

Spidertag

Neon is energy. It glows, it pulses, it feels alive. I started using it because it let me bring my language to life … literally. A neon line breathes. It adds time to space. And when you place it in public or gallery space, it transforms everything around it. It becomes a presence. That’s powerful.

It was also a disruptive thing I did in my carrer. Bringing neon and interactivity to the streets by doing big scale murals was a way to add a new path in the street art movement that I’m now translating onto canvas so you can feel that power and energy at home, or in your company, institution, etc…

GraffitiStreet

You’ve invented the term “Futurism Privitisim” to describe your work, a unique language. How do these new pieces for Concrete $ Colour express that idea?

Spidertag

It’s about merging ancient instincts with future forms. The primitive side is the symbol-making, the urge to mark space with meaning. The futuristic side is in the technology, the neon, the precision, the control of light.

Triangle Line Blue & Green is more the ‘privitisim’ quiet, symbolic, foundational. Lines & Yellow is the ‘futurism’ dynamic, urban, full of energy. Together, they reflect that duality.

GraffitiStreet Presents Concrete & Colour 2025

GraffitiStreet

What would you like viewers to experience when they see these two studio pieces side by side?

Spidertag

I hope they feel the shift from stillness to motion, from clarity to rhythm. One work invites you to pause, the other pulls you forward. One is about structure, the other about spontaneity. But they’re not in conflict, they complete each other. It’s like two perspectives on the same idea. The line as anchor, and the line as path. It’s about recognising different energies within the same visual field.

Spidertag – Lines & Yellow (2025)

Spidertag – Triangle Line Blue Green (2025)

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GraffitiStreet

How do Lines & Yellow and Triangle Line Blue and Green advance your artistic mission?

Spidertag

They represent the core of what I do, the essence of my street beginning. These works are a way of refining what I’ve been doing on the street for years. They distill my language into its purest forms: symbol, colour, motion, light. Whether it’s a towering mural or your gallery exhibition, I want to change how people experience their environment. These pieces are distilled versions of that mission.