RETNA, born Marquis Lewis in 1979, is a Los Angeles artist who built an original script from the meeting of graffiti and the world's calligraphic traditions. Drawing on Egyptian and Arabic letterforms, Hebrew, blackletter, and Indigenous American typographies, he developed a lexicon that reads as ornament and language at once, addressing multiculturalism, spirituality, and his own African American, Spanish, Cherokee, and Pipil heritage. His inclusion in Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011 and the installation Para mi gente at MOCA in 2013 marked his passage from mural practice into the institutional frame. His work is held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOCA, and The Broad. The piece shown here distills that script into a single charged field of marks.