When I started creating the work I had all this in mind, but it didn’t really change, the work was evolving, but I don’t think I still feel the same way. I’ve learned to become happy with what I’m doing and how I can help in any situation, but talking about ideas and objects, things of the American psyche, the desire to own a home, have a family, those are very expensive things to have. “The American Dream is just an idea and I know that and I don’t want to be attached to that. So a lot of things are just further out of reach. It’s hard out here financially in Los Angeles particularly. It’s not the same type of life my dad had -not that it’s easier or harder. It just feels like a lot of that stuff is slipping away. It’s not the experience my parents had-even though they were struggling at times, they still made stuff happen. Like at this point I thought I’d own a home. “The ‘dream,’ earlier on for me in my life growing up in America, it really felt like certain things would be doable. On how expensive and unrealistic the American Dream is now, and the hope of creating a new dream to work towards: All this talk about walls and barriers - all these things isolate people. Am I or my friend going to be able to stick around? What is home? When I think about the wall the current administration is trying to build and barriers like these ‘gentrification fences’ and some of them are so tall you can’t even see the home. I’m getting priced out of the neighborhood. It’s like, Damn, where do I go? Rent is so expensive I can’t afford it. So I wanted to speak to them in the show and then also the ideas about gentrification and the foundation of homes slipping away from a lot of people-it’s not so concrete anymore, it’s more like quicksand. I knew there were a lot of DACA recipients and undocumented students there, I just didn’t know how many.
“The Vincent Price Museum is on the campus of East L.A. museum exhibit, America is for Dreamers, in response to the Trump administration’s hostility toward undocumented immigrants and people of color:
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At the time it was about content-more content less filler-but Drake has kind of come full circle and turned into someone that’s just a monster.” I honestly thought he bought it, threw it on the floor … but he still has it up at his place. I wasn’t even trying to show that piece and wanted to buy it. My brother loves Drake and he bangs that shit.
Like, no, I’ve been over that, I’m trying to do other things. People are like, ‘Why do you hate Drake so much?’ Everyone thinks I’m out to kill him, but the photo keeps on circulating and they think I’m putting it out there. My ex-girlfriend still has the first one. “I guess a few weeks after the show opened, Drake’s best friend saw it and brought him over and he took photos with it and he bought it. I did this group show in Los Angeles, and I had two pieces for it, and my friend who was co-curating it came to pick up the pieces and saw Less Drake on the wall and was like, ‘Oh, we gotta show that. So I created this as an inside joke for my now-partner, my ex-girlfriend, and it was hanging at her place. And I’m like, ‘Wow that’s crazy, you’re tripping.’ He was like 21, 22, and at the time I was like 30 or 32. The rice murals of Inakadate village are said to be the largest of their kind in Japan.Īs it is, more than 150,000 eager tourists visit the village every year to catch a glimpse of the famous paddy works.“This was when Drake had his second or third album out and Drake is the best rapper ever alive. The following year, they turned to computer technology for accurate planning and design of the paddy field murals.Īll this effort was not in vain. Hence in the early 2000s, they recreated the woodwork prints of famous artists like Sharaku on an expansive 15,000 sq meters of land. The very first few murals were their own take of Mount Iwaki, which was created alongside the slogan “Inakadate, a village of rice culture.”Īs years went by, Inakadate villagers became more daring and opted for bigger murals. To this end, they used the normal lush green plants along with brown-leaved purple rice types and yellow-leaved ones. The villagers used rice plants of different colors to create the light and shade effects on the mural. The final decision focused on an interesting combination of century-old farming tradition and creative artistry. The tradition started in 1993 when the villagers brainstormed about possible ways to spice up their surrounds. The murals created by these enterprising farmers included pictures of a traditional Japanese warrior as well as Western icons like Napoleon. meters of land which have been reeling in thousands of tourists to their area. The villagers have been creating impressive imagery by planting rice plants of varying colors on 2,500 sq. A small farming community in Inakadate, Japan, has devised a unique tourist attraction as the ultimate makeover for their area – rice murals.
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