Painting my name
I did my first graffiti piece in 1993 when I was fifteen years old and it brought a real passion for creation into my life. As such, I count the first day of my artistic career from this moment. First, I chose the name SPLASH, then it was CAKES, because “Cák” means splash in the Czech language. Three letters is too short of a word for graffiti, so I extended it to Cake, then finally it became CAKES. Afterwards, I looked it up in the dictionary and found what it means in English. I was disappointed, but it was challenging at the same time to give another meaning to this word for my work as a graffiti writer. I have been doing graffiti for more than two decades, I traveled the world, and painted all kinds of locations with all kinds of surfaces. It was amazing to create and have the theme set all the time – CAKES in a different million forms. I’m amazed at how long I stuck with it until I changed my letters to POINT realizing these letters had much more meaning universally and experimented with different techniques. Until I left the graffiti letters for good to find universal language of abstraction.
![Rio De Janeiro 2005](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cakes.brazil.jpg)
Rio De Janeiro 2005
![Rio De Janeiro 2010](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2010-RIO-cakes-scaled.jpg)
Rio De Janeiro 2010
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Palmovka, Praha 90's
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![Playa Carmen 2016](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2016-Playa-Carmen-Cakes-scaled.jpg)
Playa Carmen 2016
![Sri Lanka 2012](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Cakes-sri-Lanka-bus.jpg)
Sri Lanka 2012
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Praha 2007
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![Shanghai 2010](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Cakes-Shanghai-day-2010-scaled.jpg)
Shanghai 2010
![London 2015](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2015-London-Cakes-scaled.jpg)
London 2015