The machines
The physics of what looks digital: UV printers, lathes, motors, lenses.
The work is built. Precision came from walls before it came from computers, and the magic comes from work: iteration, deadlines, fabrication, problems solved by hand. Each new tool — from the spray can to the UV printer — expands what he can do, not what he means to say.
- 1990sArgentinaThe origins
His father was a blacksmith. At fourteen he would go to work with him in the summers; he taught him to weld and to work iron. That is where his good sense of tools comes from: long before art, he already knew that things are made, and how.
Felipe's account, Jul 2026
- 1998TorreviejaThe origins
Spray can and computer, the same year. The two founding tools — and both are technology. The spray can is not a pencil: it is a machine of pressure, caps, densities and drying times, to be mastered like any other.
Praesentia
- 2007SevilleThe letters
The water tower with Alf: the cherry picker appears. It is the first time he works with big machines to reach the scale he wants — the leap from the can to heavy equipment. Proto-studio.
graffiti book (WIP)
- 2016PanamaThe studio
Articruz, the Cruz-Diez family workshop: there he learns real industrial production. Lifting machinery, the Spectra series, every kind of equipment for fabricating work at scale. It changes his idea of what a studio can become.
Praesentia · Articruz
- 2016–24The studioatribución provisional
One workshop follows another, and with each one the machines grow: flatbed UV printer, plotters, CNC, paint booth, cutting & engraving laser, software… It is not accumulation for its own sake — each new machine makes his art one degree finer and more exact.
FPSTUDIO photos · Casa Axis book
- 2025ValenciaThe environment
The Casa Axis workshop gathers everything learned: lathe, welding (his father's, closing the circle), paint booth, printing. The studio as one big machine capable of fabricating anything he imagines.
FPSTUDIO photos 2025 · Casa Axis book