Lionel Pratt was born in 1972 in the Pyrenees region, France. A self-made artist, he develops his creativity early, with a preference for technical drawing and letter painting. Driven by his passion for music, he constantly incorporates it in his work. In the 1990’s, he becomes familiar with photography and serigraphy techniques and meets Dutch photographer Marcel Couwenberg with whom he works for two years on street photography. But his enthusiasm for graphic design which he will use later in photographic works as well as in drawings and paintings is really triggered by his meeting with Californian illustrator and graffiti artist Yem. Always in pursuit of innovative techniques and elements, he begins working with tea in 1999. This seems to bring him back to the primary note, to the origins of sign. He then creates urban structures with vegetal consciousness, what we could define as a kind of urban utopia. He says about his works that they are “the scenery of a society tainted by regressive behaviours. Music seems to be the individual’s moral movement.”