(Style) Itay Nevet Writes the City High
Itay Nevet, aka Style moves through Tel Aviv the way longtime writers do—alert, unhurried, reading walls the way others read weather. For more than 15 years, the graffiti artist has been leaving his mark across the city, layering color and form onto concrete that already carries decades of stories.
“I’m writing graffiti and doing murals like 15 years,” he says simply, lighting up as if the sentence and the action belong together.
His work exists where the city breathes: side streets, overlooked corners, surfaces passed daily by people who may never stop long enough to name the artist but recognize the presence. That’s the rhythm of graffiti when it’s done over time. It becomes part of the landscape rather than an interruption.
Cannabis in the Creative Flow
Cannabis runs through Style's process the same way the street does—consistently, without ceremony. He smokes every day, not as performance or persona, but as part of how he maintains focus and pace.
“I have a license,” he says. “I’m good with it. I have good weed.”
The ease of the statement mirrors how cannabis fits into his life. It slows the moment enough to really see a wall before painting it. It stretches time during long sessions. It creates space between instinct and execution, allowing repetition to turn meditative. Letter by letter, layer by layer, the wall opens up.
Graffiti demands attention and restraint at the same time. Cannabis helps hold that balance.
Tel Aviv as a Living Surface
Tel Aviv is a city that’s constantly rewriting itself—fast, layered, and sometimes loud. For street artists, it functions as an open-air studio with its own rules, understood more than explained. Itay’s work lives inside that motion, shaped by the energy of the streets rather than separated from it.
“We have a good community,” he says.
That community—writers, muralists, night-shift creatives, people who move through the city when it’s quieter—forms through shared presence rather than formal structure. Cannabis circulates naturally within it, passed during conversations, smoke breaks, and late-night planning sessions. It’s part of how time is shared.
There’s an understanding that the city allows a lot, but never everything. Artists learn where they can linger and when it’s time to move on. The wall decides. The night decides.
Painting Through Experience
Itay doesn’t over-explain what his work carries. Like many artists who’ve stayed with a practice long enough, he lets the process speak.
“With my art, I can work on my traumas,” he says, without turning the sentence into a destination.
It’s not about resolution. It’s about continuation. Painting becomes a way to stay in motion, to translate experience into form without freezing it in place. Cannabis helps soften the edges of that work—not erasing anything, just making it possible to stay present long enough to finish.
The result is work that feels grounded rather than declarative. Murals that don’t ask to be decoded, only noticed.
Always Writing
Style keeps moving. Keeps painting. Keeps smoking.
His work accumulates quietly across Tel Aviv, forming a map of moments rather than milestones. If you see one of his pieces, you’re catching a single frame in a long, ongoing sequence—one shaped by street life, cannabis, and a deep familiarity with the city’s pace.
Somewhere nearby, another wall is already waiting.
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