COffi is an artwork built around one of the most constant presences in my life: coffee. I am Italian, so of course coffee is not just a drink to me, it is ritual, identity, rhythm, excuse, medicine, addiction, and daily ceremony all at once. In this piece, I depicted the moka in my MK23 style and placed beneath it the formula “+ water - coffee”, which turns the work into both a joke and a warning. It is playful on the surface, but underneath it carries a very clear thought: coffee is powerful, and power always asks for balance.

What interests me here is that coffee can feel like fuel, clarity, comfort, and acceleration, but it also has its cost. So the phrase under the moka becomes almost moral and philosophical. The real friend is not coffee alone, but water beside it. Not the high without the ground, but the ritual with its counterweight. In that sense, the face in the work becomes a symbolic face of depletion, as if coffee had pulled something out of the body and left behind the need to restore it. The piece is not anti-coffee at all. It is almost the opposite: it comes from love, but from a love that knows excess has consequences.

That is also why the mood of Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes felt close to this work. The film circles around obsession, ritual, conversation, and the strange chemistry of stimulants, and one of its lines says it very simply: “Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination.” That sentence has the same bittersweet irony I wanted here. COffiis my own version of that tension: devotion and critique in the same cup, pleasure and discipline in the same gesture, the moka transformed into an icon of both desire and measure.

So this piece becomes a small manifesto about consumption, habit, and awareness. It takes something deeply ordinary and turns it into a reflection on how we feed ourselves, stimulate ourselves, and dry ourselves out chasing energy. Through MK23, the moka is no longer just a domestic object. It becomes a character, a philosophy, and a reminder that even the things we love most need a counterbalance.