This is a painting that has sentimental meaning to me, I put a big piece of my soul in it and buried feelings of regret within the oil and acrylic strokes. It is a representation of a an older being, could be man or woman who has the power of life or death upon the soul of a child. The orb of power and decision which floats between the body of the child and the hand of the being rests in the control of the elder. I will say no more. I made it for an old friend of mine who is a med for the Navy.
This is a video of an Art Battles event where we used ladies as the canvas...check me out my hairs on mad man status it looks like a bomb blew up in my face!!!
ART BATTLES- The concept of Art battles has been going on for a long time, however I must credit to a man out of New Jersey for giving it this name and promoting this idea. His name is Sean Bono (holy music and chimes aaauuuuu) along side of Max Bode, two Pratt students who had their first battle on a Waverly St. apartment in Brooklyn NY back in 2000. Since then it has gained much interest and public attention. MTV even had a battle in which the winner was a good friend of mine, Anthony Brown, known to the scene as Concep (check my myspace top friends-www.myspace.com/mrmetro5fm) also a b-boy/house dancer, clothing designer and international sneaker junkie. Sean Bono should have his website up soon www.seanbono.com no relation to Cher's husband at least none that I know of.
The Painting -So this I did at an Art Battles event at Galapagos, a club in Williamsburgh Brooklyn. It was probably one of the biggest Art Battles I ever been to. I mean the spot was packed. Mad heads chillen vibing to music and watching artists on stage doing their thing. It is really nice to see something like this grow and get attention. Visual Art needs love too! Anyway you basically got an hour to make a painting and people route for who they like best. In my opinion there are no winners or losers in a thing like this. competion is for chumps if you walk out with or sell a beautiful piece of work and had fun promoting yourself and gaining exposure then yo win .period. but they did like the other guy better...lol ...also a good friend of min Ben Angotti..just google his name if you want to see some dope ass work...he also does animal portraits so if you want your pooch painted by a pro get at him...he hates doing that shit by the way but hes damn good at it.
This is a painting of the reed flute caves in Guilin, China. To me this was the best place I visited in China. It has a warm jungle like climate and beautiful scenery and landscape. The caves were immense and colorful the mountains are some of the most gorgeous I have ever seen. I think they showed the mountains and river in that kung fu flick crouching tiger, hidden dragon. The town was awesome and so were the people. It was like a big ass market. I wouldn't mind living there. Id make the caves my home if I could.
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