Alan David: Waiikiki, the Journey Abroad of a Nomadic Artist.

Alan David doesn't paint to decorate; he paints to PROJECT. His life, like his brushstrokes, flows without following straight lines. It moves in spirals, in motion, like someone daring to seek something deeper with each step.

Painting and traveling with a backpack, and finding oneself, is no simple task.

Listening to Alan's story is like unfolding a map of changes, quests, and decisions that inspire. He hasn't always called himself an artist. He has come to recognize himself in each experience, in every color, in every conversation with the street, with the world.

It's true that finding oneself isn't easy. Recounting the early years of an artist—until they can call themselves one—are transitions worth writing about, because they inspire and transcend borders, showing us where the path to creative freedom can begin. For many, this might be frightening; for others, it's the greatest purpose of their lives. How does that transition happen? Alan David shares a bit of his story.

Originating from Buenos Aires, Argentina, at just 19 years old, he began his nomadic spirit, thanks to a first trip with school friends to Brazil. His mindset then embraced the sense of EXPANSION, as it was his first journey—the one that shows you life is more than our known zone. Working temporary jobs that didn't fully satisfy his creativity, at 21, he decided to go to Búzios, near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where he began learning to travel light with a backpack, charting new routes through Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador. These were gentle nudges toward the journey of self-discovery of his purpose... to PROJECT messages through art. Each country taught him something. But it was a book—The Teachings of Don Juan—and a health experience that pushed him to the limit, introducing him to a new level of consciousness. Unintentionally, power plants appeared in his life, connecting him with an ancient, intuitive spirituality that would change his perception of the world at 23.

Burning bridges isn't easy when the soul carries its own compass. Alan David knew that growing also means letting go, and in each farewell to his homeland, there was an intimate return to himself. Amid comings and goings through Latin America, theater crossed his path as a revelation: it gave body to his voice, presence to his shyness, and taught him to inhabit the stage as one inhabits life—with courage and purpose.

Was everything artistically colorful?

In the theory of color and light, white represents the presence of all colors, while black symbolizes the absence of light. What would a work be without the darkness of black?

We spoke with him briefly about that winter stage he lived in Patagonia, Argentina. Alan David went through an inner winter. The loss of a friend marked a silent break—one of those that aren't announced but change everything. Some griefs leave invisible scars, and in his case, it was also the threshold to a deeper awakening. Astrology and tarot came as beacons, as symbolic languages to begin understanding what hurts and can't be named. Because sometimes, only the soul has the key to open certain doors that connect us on other levels.

Thus, Alan David began to deeply connect with his most intuitive and reflective stage. That inner calling led him to embark on a solo journey to northern Brazil for three months. There, as if the universe had aligned the encounter, he met his painting teacher: David Arrañado, who not only taught him to paint but to touch and care for a brush as if it were the magic wand of his life.

He returned to Bariloche with a heart full of purpose, ready to integrate his three great languages: theater, astrology, and painting. During the pandemic, no longer stage-frightened, he shaped his personal brand. Since then, he has dedicated himself to content creation with an astrological focus and social service guided by his vision as a tarot reader at the "Plutonian instinct" an ideal space for those seeking a welcome to their self-discovery process with touches of unconventional psychoanalysis.

And it was precisely in that deep integration of body, mind, and spirit where another truth began to bloom: art as a tool for social transformation. Alan David, now Waiikiki, with his identity more reinforced, found in walls a new way to name the world—a way to belong and, at the same time, to liberate. As if each stroke were guided by a language that doesn't always need words but resonates.

"Waiikiki," which in Hawaiian means "spouting fresh water," also names that moment of revelation: when an image becomes a message, and the message transforms into a seed, perhaps into a beautiful flower. His murals aren't just planted; they germinate. And in them, if you look closely, the color purple often appears—that high frequency of the spirit—as an echo of the conversations that inhabit the shared psyche, where the flower of life isn't just sacred geometry but an internal pulse.

What was once introspection now manifests as a public offering. Waiikiki ritualizes every space she intervenes in. With the precision of someone who knows how to wield a brush like a magic wand, she honors the astrological, the ancestral, and the social. Each of her works seems to say more than what is seen… like certain connections that don’t need to be explained to be felt.

Sometimes —between a flower, a symbol, and a gaze— we find ourselves there, where art not only transforms the world, but also those of us who witness it together.

The purpose of a flower is much like the present — it cannot be held onto. No matter how much you try to protect it, it will eventually wither. And that doesn’t make it any less beautiful. On the contrary, it’s precisely its fleeting nature that makes it sacred. Because its value doesn’t lie in how long it lasts, but in what it awakens while blooming by your side.

The flower teaches us to be here, now. To honor what is, without wishing it to be eternal. It reminds us that love, beauty—even inspiration—are acts of the moment. And that the only real thing is the time we share, the air we breathe beside what we love, before it turns into memory. Caring for a flower isn’t about preventing its end, but about being grateful for its presence.

Waiikiki and the Flower of Consciousness

Sometimes, the name "Waiikiki" doesn’t seem to carry the weight of his work. There’s something about it that slips away, that sounds more like a wave than a root. But behind that name is an artist who has chosen to bloom. It’s no coincidence that flowers and birds are drawn to him: in their symbolism, in their colors, in their silent language, he finds comfort and meaning. They accompany him as symbols of transformation and freedom, as maps toward a more conscious life. Violet—the color of transmutation—surrounds him like an aura, pushing him to reinvent himself.

Since arriving in Mexico, Waiikiki has begun to forge a new version of himself. This country has given him more than just new landscapes—it has offered him new perspectives on life. For the first time, he has felt both the urgency and the desire to rebuild himself with different tools: muralism, public art, street spaces that breathe truth. It is here that he has started planting the seeds of his story, stroke by stroke, like someone who has decided to stay—to journey through Mexico and amplify the message.

Waiikiki doesn’t always realize it, but his presence has something therapeutic about it. Being near him is being close to a purpose in motion. Each of his paintings is an emotional challenge, a conversation between color and experience. There’s weight in his words, because each word is also a brushstroke of life. Painting becomes a form of alchemy—everything he does is connected.

He transforms wounds into symbols, silence into color, grief into life. Waiikiki paints because it’s his way of saying what the soul intuits. In his murals—just like in his life—there’s no fear of the process. There’s only the courage to show up as you are, without masks. Through his art, as with his words, Waiikiki invites us to recognize our own strength. And in the end, he leaves us with a single truth: art isn’t what you look at, it’s what you live. And in that living, we find the magic of being ourselves—a powerful reminder worth pinning on the fridge.

If you’d like to dive deeper into Waiikiki’s world—his murals, his inner journey, and the life that unfolds behind each brushstroke—don’t hesitate to follow him on social media. There, you’ll discover more about his art, his creative process, and how, through each piece, he invites us to see beyond the obvious. And if you have a creative project, a business, or a home that you’d like to fill with his essence, feel free to reach out—he’s always open to new collaborations.

Follow him to be part of his story, to share his journey, and perhaps, find a piece of your own along the way.