Born in Italy, grew up in London

Practice: Writer (painter, poet, calligrapher, muralist)

Founder of Interowriting© Jamigraphy© and the Walking Wall©

Alice’s purpose is to translate and stimulate interoceptive* signals through the rhythm of writing and propose an alternative framework to the western traditional concept of writing.

_{*Interoception:} Interowriting is highly influenced by the theory of interoception, which concerns how we interpret signals coming from both inside and outside the body. It is a neuroscientific term that refers to the sense of the internal state of the body, encompassing the perception and interpretation of physiological signals such as heartbeat, breathing, hunger, and temperature regulation.

 It plays a fundamental role in bodily self-awareness, emotional processing, and homeostasis, enabling individuals to monitor and regulate their internal conditions. Recent research in neuroscience and cognitive science highlights interoception’s impact on decision-making, perception, and the mind-body connection, positioning it as a key factor in both physiological and psychological experiences. Since each individual interprets these internal signals differently, writing—when understood through the lens of interoception—becomes a unique and personal expression of perception, leaving an impression, a trace of one’s embodied experience.

Statement:

We have forgotten WRITING.

We have been taught to think of writing as information. As utility. As data processed by machines.

We have been taught to be smooth, painless, and silent.

But writing was never painless.

Graffiti remembers this.
Tagging remembers this.
They bring the body back to writing.
A tag is not a name—it is a signature of life, a mark of presence in a world designed to erase us.
It is a shield against forgetting. It is territory claimed, not as property, but as existence.
This is my line. This is my gesture. I am here.

Graffiti is not chaos.
Tagging is not noise.
They are disciplines.
They are rigor and training, drill and repetition.
They are the body prepared to act, to move, to write itself back into the world.

THEY ARE CURSIVE

We live in a society that seeks to smooth away every edge.
A world that doesn’t accept mistakes, pain.
But without tension, there is no form.
Without discipline, there is no freedom.
To write is to struggle.
To write is to challenge your world.

Writing is agon.
Opens up the possibility to meet the other and ourselves.
Where we stand our ground, where we defend our being with the simplest weapon: THE LINE
Not to harm, but to hold space.
Not to destroy, but to protect what must not be lost.
Presence.
Transformation.
The body, in movement, becoming word, becoming the world we’re in. 

This is INTEROWRITING.
The trained hand, listening to the signals within, responding with disciplined motion.
The line that arises from breath, from heartbeat, from the tension of being alive.
Writing that does not serve systems, but serves life.
Writing that does not obey, but witnesses.

Every mark you make is a stand.
Every action you train is a defense against disappearance.
Every line you draw is a door back to the world.
And the world needs your hand.

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Why does writing matter to me?

Writing has been my way of healing, my safe space, at times my only way to communicate or process informations.

I was a very shy child, terrified to communicate to the outside world, petrified by confrontation. 

When I learn how to write I used to write my mum letters to express my deepest feelings, even if we were living in the same house. I’d spend nights just writing. It was healing. I could be whoever I wanted to be.

No judgement. 

Writing is present.

At a young age I discovered graffiti, they were everywhere and I was fascinated. They were my inspiration, my navigation. I found in the intricate letters written on the walls the same feeling I had when I was writing. The power of the letterform. That’s why I think Graffiti have a pivotal role in the evolution of writing. When you write your name on the street you can be whoever you want. This writing of one’s name in the public realm has happened across history and doing so means that you are no longer invisible. You exist. Graffiti and lately the Hip Hop culture was my first love.

My second love was Typography. I studied typography went to all possible conferences while working in an advertising agency in London until I discovered my third love: Calligraphy

I quitted my job at the agency and apprenticed with Paul Antonio Scribe studio in London. I was catapulted into a mediaeval world, surrounded by quills, vellum and old manuscripts. I was particularly interested in the history of writing, its origins and how it developed independently in different parts of the world. In 2017 I opened my calligraphy studio AmpersandAlice where I developed my practice further and grew my client base (which came to include the British Royal family, Montblanc, Oasis and the Royal Academy of the Arts to name a few).

The love to research and study brought me back to my first love: graffiti this time passing through philosophy and Quantum physics studies

She joined EDF crew, a muralist crew from Tuscany, IT in 2022 specialised in ‘Arte Sociale’

Alice lives in between London (UK) and Tuscany (IT) and works in between painting, performing, muralism, calligraphy consultancies and commissions. 

She writes a series of articles on Interowriting for a lettering magazine called BLAG. Check out the Interowriting articles here

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