Waiting with Hope end of summer Luau Fundraiser

I hope everyone gets a chance to join us for Waiting with Hopes end of summer luau fundraiser. We will have great musical performances from Kahanu'ala (sweet hawaiian ambience) as well as hula dancing, a custom car show from the 25th street rider collection, and polynesian art and apparel from Ploynesian soul.
We will be selling raffle tickets (one for $5 and 5 for $20) for baskets including but not limited to prizes such as free hairstyle, avon products, cognes and perfumes, tattooes, chopper apparel, DVD's, dinners, lunches and much much more... We are also offering polynesian style food as well as hamburger, hotdogs and drinks as part of our fundraising efforts.
This event will slao include activities for the adults and for the children so please feel free to bring the kids. Wewill have a bean bag game, volleyball, and playground availible for everyone as well as several fun competitions such as hula hoop, and best hawaiian dress to name a few.
On behalf of my wife and I personally I want to thank everyone who has donated time, services, and gifts for this event. You are our backbone and I'm very happy we are able to make such an event possible.....5.....

Bad Girls Club Season 5

This August both my self, Kazilla and several other south florida artists will be featured in the bad girls club house in Maimi. There will be a Waiting with Hope fundraising event / Bad Girls Viewing Party on August 3 where Artist 5's artwork, that was featured in the bad girls house, will be auctioned off with a precentage of the proceeds going toward www.waitingwithhope.org Keep in touch for more up to date information on this event and others.....5.....

"ACHATES" June 2010

"Achates" is the first peice I have produced useing my new process of development. Achates is not only an abstraction useing paint and stencils like before. It is a assemblage peice as well useing such found objects as golf balls, furniture fasteners, bottle caps, and misc. bolts and screws. It also incorporates a section of wheatpasted flyers and photos that have been layers and torn to represent age. The process begins with the use of 60 1.5"X36" strips of reclaimed wood turns upright and attached together showing the detailed textures and patterns of the ply wood and the prior used surfaces that bleed over into the plys. The stencils, wheatepaste and painting where then applied and the assemblage objects place upon completion. The title came from the term achates which means loyal friend. The work was commission by Sean and Melanie Cutler, Sean and I have been friends for the last 23 years and this peice represents that longevtiy and understanding of that friendship. I requested both Sean and Melanie to complete a 5 question questionaire that has 5 answers to each question. Questions such as which 5 symbols represent you best? Some of those answers were then incorporated into the peice. sections such as the flor de lis in the clock, and the faint images of celtic knobs surrounding the clock. In the wheatepasted face there are band flyers from when Sean played in several local Florida band, such as Num. Another interesting aspect to this process is the installation of these peices. They will be installed useing a steel track that runs above and below the peice. The peice will then be attached from the bottom and the top. In the future this will allow me to attache several peices together to form one large work 8'X8', 10'X10' or even larger. This new process incorporates alot more detail then the works prior and responce to the new work has been extremely good. Some have said they can't stop looking at it because they see neww elements each time and some just enjoy the mixture of techniques and the composition. Never the lease this new and exciting process with open new avenues of expression and communication in the near future while creating and great size to work with. Peace.....5.....

"Erratum" definded is an error in writing or printing. A book with a blank page, a news letter with several missing lines. In current day there are clearly defined instructions to how a person must scan a page to a computer to obtain the entire page. If done incorrectly parts of the page with be missing and the scan copy leaving it incomplete. What if some of the most prollific authors and stories of our time and before are missing the instructions and somehow left out a line or two, a page or two, or more. How would this effect our culture as humans? Would it change the direction of our society if we found out that some of our history as incomplete. You wonder what authors or stories could cause such a dramatic change if found false. Would the Declaration of independence being incomplete change things or even more universal the Bible. What kind of affect would this draw into our communities. Who made the rules? Who is wrong or right? Who says that fate is not the governor and those missing words or lines or pages were mean to be.

"Erratum" 24"X48" acrylic, aerosol, wood stain, and sticker applications on wood Sold to the Kyriakioles Family.

Good or Evil?????

For my very first blog I figured I would throw out some of my personal concepts on this life in which we all lead. I came across a friend of mines website http://www.okanom.com/ and noticed a brief interaction he calls “balancing of the shades” I really appreciated the concept and I wanted to expand on this a little with my own thoughts. Okulus Anomali states that there is no good or evil that is it a concept developed by man. Now for starts I could have a completely different view on the subject it’s just my expanse, two this expanse is mine it’s not political, religious or such so if you start to get upset you should probably take a step back and think about it more.

Are good and evil truly opposites or is one just more defined in our culture then the other? In history many thing have been set as evil do to the lack of knowledge on the subject then at a later date reborn as positive. Clearly by definitions good, or light or better defined then evil or dark by more then 60%. Why? Is it because it’s easier to swallow? Or is it because one has to put less mental work toward the conclusion? So clearly if this is the case then there may be some things classified as evil that may not be based on lack of information and there may be something classified as good that may have wrong information guiding it. There is a fine line between exploration and descending into the information that may be evil. Sometime this exploration or descending can cause more damage then bringing sometime new to light. But how would we know without this exploring? How far is to far if no one tests it, hell tee art was square till someone sailed it. Two cups are cups, less defined. One may be filled with poison and one with water but until tested they remain two cups no matter what there contains.