Eltono is an artist who transforms public space, using the city as his support, studio, and inspiration. Born in Paris in 1975 and having lived in Madrid, Beijing, and now back in France, Eltono has been experimenting with color, line and form throughout his 20 year-plus career, integrating his paintings with his architectural surroundings in buildings and cities around the world. His recent paintings at the IDEO office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example, as well as his work for the Facebook Paris, Artist in Residency program, showcase his unique ability to integrate and highlight already existing (but often hidden) elements of each space he works on.

Master Printer James Stroud invited Eltono to make a print project at Center Street when the artist was finishing up his project on the IDEO office building in Cambridge, MA in 2017. In two long all-nighter sessions we were able to craft 7 woodblocks of varying shapes to serve as matrices that were used multiple times to print over each other in various colors and positions. The result was a series of four pairs of unique prints that employed a limited palette and specific position strategies.