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“All of the only been COVID,” ex for those de creation of showcased For the last t pieces mea mental illne giving you t that strange through. It could be m member.”
As Esposito drive from BLANK SLATE Gallery in W “I have these three silhouettes that turn into a of protest movements. There’s a sound comp the sounds of decades of protests. It’s a statem
Esposito is proud to consider himself an activist ju dealt with the opioid crisis. He crafted giant s pharma and others who contributed to the a Blank Slate is a progression from those stateme health was a root cause for the massive depen works in with Blank Slate he’s hopeful it might he
This history of activism is what originally brou attention. Owner Rolando Chang Barrero said for activism that ties into contemporary issues. T work that will be identifiable to everyone from
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isolation and loneliness that people feel has exacerbated over the last year because of xplained artist Domenic Esposito. This concern ealing with mental health issues led to Esposito’s his new art exhibition Blank Slate which will be d at The Box Gallery from March 6 through 29. ten months Esposito has painted and sculpted ant to convey empathy for those suffering from ess. “I have these sculptures hanging waist high the feeling they’re looking for you. It gives you e feeling myself and people I know have gone allows people to step back and realize this me suffering through this, this could be a family
packed his artwork in the trailer to make the his home base in Massachusetts to The Box West Palm he described his art in further detail. a megaphone that represent a hundred years ponent to it with a directional speaker playing ment on how activists sometimes get it right.”
ust as much as an artist. His last major exhibition spoons and placed them in plain view of big addiction and deaths of so many. He believes ents. Our culture’s lack of concern for mental ndence on opioids. By mixing a few of his opioid elp a few gallery visitors make that connection.
ught Esposito’s artwork to The Box Gallery’s d, “I opened the gallery to be a cultural center This work fascinated me. It was museum quality young people to the elderly.”
y in West Palm Beach. Artist Talk: March 20, 2021, 7-9PM
by Tim Moffatt Science equates time and stress as pre-requisites for diamonds; Bogus Bones, is the offspring of time + stress / creativity. Julian Cassanetti, formerly of The Lot Six and Drug Rug, poured himself into lockdown song writing and invited some friends to help. The result, The Long Way Home, is a pastiche of arrangements via close friends; Twenty three to be exact. The experience is a journey evoking much more than the aural medium: a musical painting? A cinematic mind scape? It’s certainly a fun record from a hive mind on their own planet. Here’s what Julian had to say about the process: Would you say The Long Way Home is the penultimate pandemic statement? It’s dreamy at times, evokes longing at other times, and has a nostalgic feel; that seems pretty spot on for 2020. “100% it took a pandemic to make the record, some songs are new some are old. What we got out of the pandemic was time, being locked at home gave us that. Some of the lyric’s pre-date the pandemic, but somehow, they fit. Pepper is very pandemic y, but it pre-dates the pandemic and the lyrics are spot on. Remote recording has been available for a long time, but time is really what we needed to explore ourselves inside the house rather than outside.” How does time and isolation reflect on this record? I know many of the players were somewhat estranged friends, how did that play into the songwriting process? “Before the pandemic you go to band practice, you show band mates parts; now it was more like here’s the song, see what you can do to make things fit. Everyone has their shot and it is what it is in the end, it’s like a painting, every stroke is permanent. Isolation is helpful in letting the songs be themselves without any sort of hand holding. Being genuine is important and I was at the whim of people who could collaborate and what they would do, I felt less isolated and I think my friends felt less isolated because of the record. People sent their parts in and mutated the songs into something completely different. It was wild.” Were most people game to contribute? “I had 100% no expectations for anyone to show up, but everyone was down, and some wanted to be a part of the whole process; technically and beyond. I haven’t talked to some of these people in over a decade, but certain people just make you feel like you’re suddenly on the right planet. We share a bond and it was an excuse to rekindle that bond.” What happens next for Bogus Bones? “I won’t do this again the same way, I want to make the process harder! I don’t know what the next thing is going to be, but I have ideas for whatever it is. The whole process is an experiment, I can’t recreate. I asked one person and it grew to 23 people, it became a huge thing!”
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The pair date their friendship and collaborative e then residing in Roanoke, invited Strawn to join his the band disbanded, Strawn relocated to NYC i Blacklist and getting involved with a few other m
On reuniting for this project, Strawn likens the com like contemplating the abyss while staring at a Orleans apartment” – which is where he curren South Florida. “Funny enough, the same house F is my studio now.”
In Afterlife, Strawn’s vocals, synths and saxophon conveys the splendor of cinema and environm relaxation, indicative of the musical cleanse Kolo and demons,” Kolosine said. “Inspirationally, of co also old Nat King Cole and Jim Reeves in a twiste
The LP, released last October, suffered minor d transparent inner sleeves, is a beautiful object. A die-cut revealing the crimson vinyl. The absent of a man contemplating a skull – save for the b mystery of anonymity and voyeurism holds.
The duo is anxious to perform again and are fina the new geographical norm for musical creation. through all this, not just the joy of making art but re limited-edition vinyl is available at theredwindow
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ere’s something menacing buried in the opening thesizers, drums and vocal taunts of “Afterlife,” title track for the Red Window’s debut album. that sense of foreboding that creeps over aracters in a horror movie who know their end is ar. And then the saxophone kicks in.
e Red Window is a renewed musical collaboration Joshua Strawn, a writer, producer, and multirumentalist known for his work with experimental etal outfit Vaura and electronic project Azar an, and South Florida synthpunk pioneer Jeremy
energy to the turn of the century when Kolosine, s dream pop/shoegaze band Shakespace. After in 2004, forming the gothic rock, post-punk outfit musical projects.
mpositions to Leonard Cohen songs that “sound ceiling fan at 4 a.m. in a dark, sweltering New ntly resides. Kolosine, on his end, has returned to Futurisk began in ‘79,” he said. “My old bedroom
one parlay Kolosine’s guitars and keys. The result ment. Danceable, sure, but also for reflective osine underwent. “I purged my personal angels ourse the usual and obvious Bowie, Ferry, Eno but ed way.”
delays during production due to a shortage of dark black outer sleeve features a windowpane label makes way for a Giacometti-like drawing band’s name etched into the runoff groove, the
alizing their follow-up. The band is nonplussed by . “Creative work has been a saving grace for me einforcing my support network,” Strawn said. The w.bandcamp.com.
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by Abel Folgar In times of turmoil, art is a powerful
tool. Be it as a coping mechanism or as an agent for change, the arts provide a therapeutic release for both practitioner and beholder. For PB County artist Juan Carlos Badia Cabero, his portraiture practice would take a turn into therapy after the social unrest events of 2020 and a fortunate scroll through his Instagram feed. Born in Honduras to Spanish parents, he’s been an artist since he was 20 years old. Beginning as a muralist and faux finisher, he’s worked with glass, wearable portrait miniatures and beading. Throughout his practice, he has gravitated towards natural and feminine motifs as a way to express his emotions. “I started working on this painting from a frustrated mood,” he tells PureHoney about “I’m Still Here,” one of his most recent portraits. “I was outraged over the discrimination that was going on, not just here in the U.S., but all over the world.” After exercising through a palette
of pigments to match his mood, Badia Cabero came across a photo of Oxana, an albino model from Milan, Italy. Fascinated by her story – dealing with the cruelty of internet trolls and the like – and her awareness activism for albinos, he felt a connection to his frustrations. “I couldn’t help but paint her, I immediately felt her frustration with the human condition,” he said. In “I’m Still Here,” he populates the tableau with his familiar themes as inspired by the strong resolve of his subject. Numerous flowers and plants surround her as a stylized, almost art deco lamp hangs behind her above an ominous square shape. Her blouse devolves from neo-epaulettes into an M.C. Escher-like active beehive – far from unsettling surrealism, she refocuses the painting beyond the sum of its parts. “Her quiet energy is like a self-meditation energy and her beauty is unique,” he says. “I’ve used symbols in the painting that reinforce that and help tell her story.” The square represents the discrimination of “squareminded individuals” present in today’s society, the lamp’s cover prevents the light to shine on her but she’s still radiant and the beehive is a shield protecting her from society. Creating the painting helped him navigate a tumultuous year, equipping him to face a world struggling to be better. Whatever tomorrow brings does not matter to him, he’s ready to take it one day at a time. “My obligation as an artist is to respond and interpret the world around me,” he said. “It’s our job – my job – as a creative individual.” IG: @jbadialaberinto