Art Basel banana art

BANALICIOUS: Polish Madonna and the forbidden fruit of Art Basel Miami 2019

Plato described the role of an artist as the one who translates the meanings of the cosmic consciousness for the rest of us. But it seems the American public receives only the banana art, funny and meaningless to the crowds of Art Basel, but less so to those in Miami who make $8.46 per hour, the state’s minimum wage.

Encuentro Basura // Meet Trash

Encuentro Basura, a week-long Trash Festival to reflect on the current changing social and environmental climate –popular uprisings, indigenous resistance, the destruction of the natural world, locally and globally. Inspired by principles of permaculture: Care for the Earth, Care for the People, and Fair Share

The immigrant Artist Biennial

Artists who take risks inspire me the most. Risks with mediums, subject matter, genres, disciplines. Artists who explore from the gut, who do not follow trends too much, who are audacious, interdisciplinary, experimental, political, feminist, difficult to categorize, exciting.

You are your own poetry machine!

We can all be poets and linguistic warriors. And if we can win our wars for the liberation of language we can win something else in the bargain: The ability to express ourselves again. Or at least have fun trying.