SINTAXERA is the creative alias of Ty Paulhus — an artist based in East Providence, Rhode Island. Ty’s work spans painting, tattooing, illustration, and drawing, all bound together by a preoccupation with mark-making, language, and the friction between the human hand and the systems trying to replace it and control it. Recurring through everything are themes of humanity, decay, surveillance, censorship, and the question of what gets hidden and what gets revealed.

The name comes from a syntax error: a glitch in code, something out of place and broken. That resonated with me, and I fully adopted the name, spelled with a Rhode Island accent. The name carries the DNA of where this all started - graffiti, skateboarding, comics, punk rock - and where it’s headed.