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“HEREKE BOMB” | TAPE TRACING in collaboration with Odabashian’s archives.
This time it was an antique Hereke rug, woven in the city of Hereke (Turkey) more than 100 years ago, that provided the inspiration for an ambitious color study. The contemporary composition celebrates the traditional art of oriental rug making, by bringing back color and life to the front while leaving a glimpse of evidence of its origins.
More images here.
Lotsa tapebomb-splash-a-fun during Sobe Local’s launch event at the Freehand Hotel (Miami Beach).
More about this amazing locals group here.
Ze girl in action avec les tapes pour ze Tape Bombing du Buena Vista Deli à Miami | “COLOR STUDY IN 45”
How patient of them… Them being the usual life-loving hungry customers of the area’s unpretentiously hip meeting place, the Buena Vista Deli. The went with their conversations, daily newspaper readings, IM chatting and more while I repeatedly made the exact same sound with my Tape Bombing gear and got closer and closer to them as I tried to reach every inch of that pistachio colored fence.
Worth it.
Too bad tonight has been pouring like crazy.
A daytime vampire after an intense good ol’ Tapebombing session | “TEMPO”
Street Art installation for GRAMPS Bar in Wynwood.
“D” day, as in Defolding day. Having finished painting all the faces that the geometry of a folded origami envelope allowed me to reach, I took a huge leap and decided to open them all.
As it usually happens to a spoiled kid who gets too many presents in Christmas I indulged in the process of, though not so much in the “toys” themselves. I bolted out of my studio as fast as the Road Runner! It was too much, too fast.
“PROCESS” began as a personal record to document the creative (repeat title) that took the most basic and understated materials (inches and inches of color tape) into an hedonistic, fantasy-futuristic, extravagant, impractical and unnecessary pair of fashion accessories.
This video documentation ended up being a relevant (if not the most) one-third of the triad that conforms “PROCESS | EVIDENCE”, the pieces created for the Wolfsonian Museum’s Visionaries Anniversary Gala, suitably themed The Art of Illumination.
Ten Miami based architects and designers were invited to be part of The Art Illumination challenge. Among this buncha talented heads was mine. Such an honor.
Green over turmoil
Such commotion!
Over what?
Green steps up
Annihilate. Right side panel comes alive
(Come to think, in the middle I still laze, conversation kept alive)
Watch your step, you’ll trip over your own face
Are those strings holding me up?
Or, do you duck behind the color I cast?
The R word and its very blurry lines…
THE JOY OF THE UNFINISHED WORK.
The word unfinished is usually related to the lack of progress, to laziness and the inability to follow through. In the past few months I’ve been able to observe myself closer than ever and I’ve finally begun to understand what my drive is: PROCESS.
A “finished” painting fails to deliver the excitement of the half-way-there one that lays to my right waiting for more.
It is recently that I understood that they will never be finalized. Knowing this, if anybody were to walk into my studio looking for some color-on-paper experience to take with him(her) home there would be plenty of options (on multiple stages) ready to go.
A sense of creative freedom like I’ve never felt before didn’t take too long to invade me after realizing this.
Mainly-red painting on its first stages with a long road to go ahead (or not).
*Special thanks to my dear friend Erwin Georgi for taking as much joy in improvising around this city as me.
Colorful promenade around town.
*Special thanks to my dear friend Erwin Georgi for taking as much joy in improvising around this city as me.
Like lightning, flashbacks of my fashion designing days came to me last week. My very dear friend and Editor in Chief of En Boga Magazine, Vicky Lujan,invited me to the Custo Barcelona show that took place during the annual ADS (America Developing Smiles) fundraising event.
In between doing some shopping and some chatting, Custo Dalmau gave us a very warm welcome backstage. It wasn’t too long ago when I used to show my handbag line in this organization’s sought-after Fashion Bazaar.
The day couldn’t be over without my bumping into old fashion friends like Haute fashion jewelry designer from MIMA jewelry from Puerto Rico. Good times!
Currently, AMERICA DEVELOPING SMILES consists of more than 300 trained volunteers, helps more than 1,500 children in Latin America, and works directly with 3 community outreach programs in South Florida, as well as 3 educational centers in Puerto Rico.
