An anthology of East City Art's most compelling writing of 2017

Confluence: Two Rivers, One City 

An anthology of East City Art's most compelling writing of 2017

Anticipated Publication Date: February 5, 2018

150+ pages
Including full color images
ISBN 978-0-9861529-4-8

Over 20 Articles including reviews, features and artist interviews

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It's all good!

Gee folks! I posted Invictus a few days ago and all of a sudden people are emailing me asking if I'm OK - it's all good, and no worries.

I learned that poem some time in my teens... around age 13 I was hit by a speeding car crossing Atlantic Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. It made me sail from Atlantic to the middle of Eastern Parkway and it broke my left femur on impact with the ground, and my hip.

The car kept on going - hit and run.

I spent several months in a body cast at Brooklyn Hospital - not fun. 

Incredibly enough, considering my Fridamania, I had never noted this parallel with Kahlo until someone recently mentioned it to me.

Anyway, someone read that poem to me while I was in the hospital all those months (my father and mother came every single night, and my mother brought me dinner every single night, as I hated hospital food, while my father scarfed up the hospital food).

I now equate Invictus with hospital stays.

No worries.

She caught me

I literally tooks almost a thousand photos of people taking selfies in front of my artwork... in this one, one of the two girls caught me doing it! They told me that they loved the work!

@contextartmiami #contextartmiami

Invictus

Spent all this week in the hospital - not a happy experience, but certainly an eye-opening one, where I re-learned the power of words (in a sense) - what happened did not happen, but had to be accepted as happening... Invictus is the only thing that comes to mind as I rest in an empty room.

Out of the night that covers me, 

      Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods may be 

      For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance 

      I have not winced nor cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance 

      My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 

      Looms but the Horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years 

      Finds and shall find me unafraid. 

It matters not how strait the gate, 

      How charged with punishments the scroll, 

I am the master of my fate, 

      I am the captain of my soul. 

And no worries, all is good - final Miami art fairs report coming soon!

Art Scam Alert!!!

Beware of this scammer:

From: Roger Cox rogercox407@gmail.com

My name is John muller  from Washington DC was looking for some artwork online and i found your contact while searching.

I will like to purchase some of your work for my wife as a surprise gift for our 20th anniversary.

Please kindly send pics and prices of some of your art which are ready for immediate sale within price range $500- $5000

I hope to hear a lot more about any available piece in your inventory ready for immediate sale.

Thanks and best regards,

John!!

More on the curious case of the artwork and the selfie

This just kept happening 100s of times a day at the Context Art Miami fair... I have 100s of these photos....

Art Scam Alert!

And yet another asswipe trying to rip off artists:

From: David Morton samdavid.morton01@gmail.com

Subject: Interested in your Artworks.

My name is David Morton from Brownsville TX was looking for some artwork online and i found your contact while searching. I will like to purchase some of your work for my wife as a surprise gift for our 20th anniversary. Please kindly send pics and prices of some of your art which are ready for immediate sale within price range $500- $5000 I hope to hear a lot more about any available piece in your inventory ready for immediate sale.

Best regards!