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Do you know what it takes to be so free that you can improvise instrumental music with other musicians for hours? Will you let that conversation vibrate with every cell of your being, rattle your consciousness and alert you to the possibility of the present moment? Have you ever listened so hard that you could hear yourself smile? Could you open up your heart to a room, and then make that room the world?
Sep 23, 2024
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so peaceful
Feb 8, 2024
I think if I like, really had to think about it, free jazz is the pinnacle of music.
I wish I could dedicate my life to jazz.
watch this sun ra performance. you’ll feel the same way
Mar 30, 2024
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It elevates the mundane to the sublime
Jan 21, 2024
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My grandma’s word for word response when I asked her if she had any advice for living a long life. She lived to be 99 years old. Rest in Paradise Donna.
Dec 8, 2024
I am obsessed with this Art Deco Extraordinaire, a Polish-born painter whose glamorous figurative compositions came to life in 1920s-30s Paris. Influenced by Cubism and Neoclassicism, her works—especially her portraits of women—blend beauty, strength, modernity, and a timeless cosmopolitan flair. After leaving Paris, she continued her career in New York, Hollywood, and Mexico. Now on view is her first American retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco until February 9th.
Jan 5, 2025
I've been doing a lot of live drawings at shows, this one is of Juvenile and Mannie Fresh when they played at Brooklyn Bowl to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Back That Azz Up." They had a live band with them and the energy was so hype! His son messaged me "My dad love the painting" and got my email so I'm hoping this ends up in his house one day :) Musicians are my main muses. I sell the drawings as fine art prints and because they are ink on paper, the replicas look pretty identical to the OGs. Live drawing is a practice I've devoted myself to out of not having a studio and living out of a storage unit and it's made me brave and remember that MFA degree and Art World aside, art is about curiosity, creativity, openess, innovation, and being present to the beauty in front of you. It is the conscious action to make marks, to trust the ancient technology embeded in our bodies, to allow a picture to reveal itself, and connect to some kind of truth on the daily.
Oct 14, 2024