Coined by Puerto Rican artist Franscisco Rivera Rosa in roughly 1995. He continues to make a living painting and sculpting with coffee. He called this technique Arfe which is the combination of the Spanish words for art and coffee. Arte and café. Thus, Arfe.
Talented husband-wife duo Andrew Saur and Angel Sarkela-Saur, artists of the above art piece have an extensive gallery here.
Arfe is what linguists refer to as a portmanteau. Said like port – man –to. It’s a word blended of 2+ words or morphemes and their meanings. A morpheme is the smallest component of a word holding semantic meaning. However, that doesn’t mean all morphemes stand alone to form the concept of a word. We are getting in too deep. Story for another time.
Photograph of artist Sunshine Plata by Rolando Ng
You can find more info on her website along with the option to buy original works here.
New York Times article “About New York; Double Mocha with a Shot of Watercolor” go on to describe Mr. Rosa as “embracing a self-referential realism” in naming.
Credits and Sources: The New York Times "About New York: Double Mocha with a Shot of Watercolor” by David Gonzalez. The official Arfe website is in Spanish so if you can read Spanish, great. But they have an extensive portfolio which is awesome here. Photograph by Rolando Ng on Coffee Club Network "Philippines Artist Perks up Paintings with Coffee." Bottom two photographes here and here .
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