FlutuArte in print
We were sitting in the local paneteria (bakery) today taking a lunch break and a fisherman with a big smile on his face brought us a newspaper with an article featuring FlutuArte. Beaming with pride he told us people have been coming by every day to take photos of his recently painted boat. Word has […]
FlutuArte on GLOBO TV, Brazil
Click on the image above to watch the video Last night we all went to Perola’s house for a party. We played the piano, sang, painted and enjoyed each others company until the birds began to whistle outside and rays of light shined through the cracks in the shutters. At noon today, with heavy eyes, […]
Here are some recent FlutuArte photos for you to enjoy. FlutuArte is a floating gallery that can be seen from both land and sky with the purpose of using art to bring people together. Its mission is to explore the degree to which art in public spaces can transform the community that owns it. Artists […]
Shalak Attack!
One of the best things about organizing big group art projects is getting to meet talented people from all over the place. Shalak Attack, from Montreal, Canada is one of my favorite artists. She came to Rio to paint a boat for FlutuArte, a unique public art project I started with my friend Maxine Nienow […]
The Jungle Palace
Rio de Janeiro, Brilliant amorphous colors shift, undulating with fragments of forming thought. Responsibilities, joys and conflicts circle in organic rotation. Ideas flourish like multi-colored poppy fields. Flashes of vivid memory emerge and disappear into colorful darkness. Gnawing anxiety mixes with utmost bliss in an array of cascading patterns. A bright red ladder towers over […]
The Abandoned Hotel Part 2
…continued (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Alone with a rush of adrenaline, I take a left at the sign to Corcovado. I follow the arrow to the Christ and shortly after I stop short at the gate finding it closed and locked. With a stab of disappointment I am faced with another set of options. I […]
The Abandoned Hotel Part 1
It is midnight. Perola waits for us at the bottom of our hill and five of us pile into her tiny car. The other seven hire a collectivo (communal taxi) to take us up the steep mountain of Corcavado. Near the top, on the way up to the statue of the Christ sits the abandoned […]
Boat Inventory
My eyes are tired from a long day of painting and I have to fight them from closing. It’s 4am and everyone is asleep as I sit on the balcony of my hostel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The lights of the Santa Marta favela twinkle on mountain in front of me and a cool […]
Choose your own adventure: Parque Lage- Part 3
Continued… After the last chant came to an end we sat silent for a time, I opened my eyes with a new clarity and crispness as we all came back from the worlds we had visited. We sat marveling at the nature around us, whispering, laughing and enjoying each others company on the floor in […]
Check out this video about FlutuArte! It’s the next best thing to being here:) Enjoy! Stay tuned for Choose your own Adventure part 3… (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)