Odeith’s “Static Depth” Turns His Own Name Into a Load-Bearing Wall

A Lisbon anamorphic pioneer takes his signature 3D graffiti technique off the street and onto canvas, rendering “ODEITH” as solid, sil-cut architecture.

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• The Work Itself
• Who Is Odeith
• From Street Corners to Canvas
• Where to See and Buy It

“Static Depth” is the newest original from Portuguese street artist Odeith, rendering the artist’s own tag as a three-dimensional typographic relief that appears to jut physically out of the canvas. The piece is acrylic spray paint on canvas, measuring 100 × 120 cm, completed in 2025. Rather than the fluorescent, high-contrast palette Odeith is often associated with, “Static Depth” is built almost entirely from soft pastels — warm sand and clay tones cut through by cool blue-grey silhouette blocks — which flattens the usual drama of his anamorphic work into something closer to architectural drafting than graffiti.

The letters “ODEITH” don’t sit on the surface so much as they seem to have been extruded from behind it: each character reads as a beam, a column, or a punched-out doorway, complete with cast backdrops that do the actual work of selling the third dimension. It’s a technique Odeith has spent two decades refining on walls, train yards, and building corners, here scaled down and controlled for a single fixed viewing angle rather than the wraparound, walk-around illusions that made his public murals famous.

 

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The original is signed on the back, ready to hang, and comes with a certificate of authenticity — standard for Odeith’s studio-based originals, which he now produces alongside limited-edition prints through his own online store.

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Sérgio “Odeith” was born in Damaia, Portugal, in 1976, and first picked up a spray can in the mid-1980s, painting on his neighborhood’s walls before formally encountering the wider graffiti movement in Carcavelos in the mid-1990s. He never had formal art training — he left school at fifteen — and instead built his technique through years of illegal work on street walls and railway lines around Lisbon, moving into large-scale murals across Damaia, Carcavelos, and Amadora. STREET ART UTOPIASTREET ART UTOPIA

His breakthrough came in 2005, when his long-standing interest in perspective and shadow evolved into the anamorphic style now considered his signature — compositions painted across 90-degree corners, floor-to-wall transitions, or multiple adjoining planes that create the illusion of objects physically emerging from the architecture itself. That approach earned him international recognition and a run of major commissions and festival appearances across Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, including murals for Shell, Kingsmill, Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Portuguese football club Sport Lisboa e Benfica. OdeithArtsy

The pandemic years pushed his practice indoors, shifting his focus toward studio work, unique canvas pieces, and refining technique rather than chasing large public interventions — a shift that has continued since, with Odeith now splitting his time between selected wall commissions and controlled studio production. “Static Depth” belongs squarely to that studio chapter: a piece designed for gallery walls and private collections rather than a train platform or a festival crowd. Odeith

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What makes “Static Depth” notable within Odeith’s broader catalogue is how it strips his anamorphic language down to its most legible form — his own name. Where his street murals often used illusion in service of a subject (a boxer, a monster, a tribute portrait breaking through brick), here the subject is the technique itself, laid bare as pure typography. The letters aren’t decorated with anything beyond their own geometry and the shadows that define it, which puts the entire illusion on the line: there’s no image to distract from whether the depth reads correctly.

It sits within a small cluster of recent studio originals — pieces like “Prismatic Bond,” “Trust,” and “Beware” — that show Odeith increasingly comfortable working at gallery scale and price points, a shift from murals that could stretch twenty meters up a building face to works built for a single wall in a private home. Several of these pieces carry the same anamorphic display note: their illusion depends on being viewed from a specific angle and eye level, a instruction that would have been meaningless for a wall piece meant to be encountered by pedestrians from any direction, but matters a great deal once the same technique is compressed onto a fixed rectangular canvas meant for a living room.

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“Static Depth” is listed as an original work through Odeith’s official store, priced at €4,500, shipped worldwide in a protective box with a certificate of authenticity and the artist’s signature. It’s currently the only piece of its kind — a one-off original rather than a limited-edition print — meaning once it sells, this particular composition won’t be reproduced in the same form. Collectors interested in the style at a lower price point can look to Odeith’s rotating selection of limited edition prints, which periodically includes smaller-format works using similar 3D lettering techniques.