Favorite piece I saw at Thinkspace…by Joao Ruas
Big thank you to everyone who came out last night:) Such great work at the show, and a lot of money raised for Born Free!
Mixed media with acrylic, wasp nest, red wasps, paint, resin, ink, pencil, trash, and shells… “The Harbinger” for WILD AT HEART, opening Saturday in Culver City at Thinkspace Gallery. This new body of work is called “Bleach” and is centered around the acidification of the oceans, causing coral bleaching. More coming in 2012, but this is the first piece, which was made to raise money for BORN FREE, helping endangered species all over the planet. Made with the plastic equivalent of a years worth of plastic water bottles used by two average people.
Details…. Mixed media with acrylic, wasp nest, red wasps, paint, resin, ink, pencil, trash, and shells… “The Harbinger” for WILD AT HEART, opening Saturday in Culver City…. See the full piece on Friday…
They call it the 17 year cicada, or “Magicicada.” You can hear the roar driving down the highway, screams of millions of males crying for a bride. Think about it: for seventeen years they have been maturing slowly below the ground. While they slumber, wars are started and ended in the world…people get married, have kids, and get divorced…technology climbs over itself, surpassing exponentially every year…new planets and species are discovered….and we as humans continue the daily dramas together and separate from one another. 17 years pass by and they climb out of a cool, wet ground to find a whole new world. They circle the tree that protected them for nearly two decades. They sing for two months, at the top of their lungs, like love-drunken teenagers…because, well, they are. We find it disruptive, “gross,” interesting, annoying, loud, or strange. I find it nothing less than fascinating. That’s why THIS girl was stumbling around under a tree, while semi trucks pulled out of a gas station staring at me, these little animals gathering on me like red-eyed fairies. I didn’t care. I was just glad I stopped for a six-pack on the way home or I would’ve missed being on stage for the opera.
Detail of “HARBINGER”….piece for the WILD AT HEART exhibit, raising money for Born Free USA. More images to come…
