Domenico Barra, better known as Domì, is an Italian artist, poet and singer. He was born on the 9th September 1982 in the ancient Greek town of Neapolis know today as Napoli. It was a sunny morning the day his extraordinary life began, perhaps one of the few in his life because of course for most extraordinary beings.. everyday is stormy.After roaming the streets of Napoli for many years, he eventually moved to England at the age of 19. Since then he has been conducing a bohemian life-style studying art, reading philosophy and psychology, writing poetry and joining the band Echoing Green, of which he is frontman and lyricist.Domì Barra first approach to art happened at the very young age of four when his father, ex card-carrying member of the Italian Communist Party, hanged in the living room a copy of the famous painting of Pablo Picasso ' Guernica'.Since the early age of eight, D. Barra felt the need of expressing his feelings about alarming world's issues through the media of drawing. He was very often inspired by the works of the photographer Oliviero Toscani and the political cartoons of the artist Giorgio Forattini which were printed on the pages of the weekly supplement 'Il Venerdì' of the Italian newspaper 'La Repubblica'. At the time of the first Gulf War, D. Barra depicted pictures of the battle he had seen on television for a school project part of his art class.D.Barra also had a brief experience as graffiti artist between the ages of fourteen to eighteen. During those years he had the chance of meeting many urban artists and shared with them ideas and techniques which resulted very important for D.Barra as his school studies were mainly focused on literature and economy.The first (1924) and second (1929) Manifesto of Surrealism and the surrealist movement and revolution became the major inspirations for art practice and life style since the age of twenty-two.The portfolio mainly includes automatic drawings and photographs which are then enriched of details with photoshop and then printed on canvas or poster. The artist has also experimented with clay, plaster, installations, film and video, photography and printing. At the moment the main focus of work are the subconscious, automatisms and dreams. The techniques mainly used are coulage, collage, grattage, decalcomania, suruatomatic, automatic painting and automatic drawing.Although a year of art studies and practices at the Leeds College of Art and Design and art classes at school, Domì Barra declare himself as a self taught artist.