Manuel Antonio is lush– a refreshing departure from dusty, hot Jaco. Except, to be honest, to me it looks like an Americanized, tropical, outdoor mall....
I was told by several people that Jaco is the place to go in all of Costa Rica. It’s the closest beach town to the international airport in San Jose. There’s...
Every morning in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica, a variety of colorful birds come to hang out in the tall, wiry tree in the front yard. The regulars consist...
In Costa Rica, I already feel more relaxed, a pressure lifted from me. The kind of pressure that, while in New York, brings me to tell my friends that...
Each night here I lay awake with my mind in overdrive. Sometimes it takes me hours to fall asleep. I am on the Pacific side of Costa Rica, in Playa Hermosa....
Peru! I am here!
I’ve wanted to travel to this country for so long. It is one place that I’ve felt has called me. Peru is endlessly fascinating...
When was the last time you painted?
The last time you thought about your dreams?
I’d like to invite all of you to the upcoming HotW East Village exhibition...
I am back in NYC getting settled again after our long, winding Hearts of the World India Tour. Here’s a look at some of the newspapers that wrote about...
On our way home to NYC from India we have a layover in Turkey.
The plane lands and we fidget, antsy… waiting for everyone to exit the plane. We...
During our last week in India, we were invited by Bachpan Bachao Andolan to host one last Hearts of the World program in India with children rescued from...
The Hearts of India event-exhibition for me was an exciting three hour blur of color, laughter and art.
After three months in India with 12,000 road km...
We’re back in Delhi, we’ve moved to Hauz Khas Village for the time being to get ready for the upcoming Hearts of India event.
We moved into an apartment...
We are back in Delhi! We’ve come full circle, having traveled over 12,000 km over the last three months. Along the way we’ve hosted twelve Hearts of the...
Last week I learned from my family on the other side of the world, that my brother, my dearest companion had died. I’ve spun a thousand prayer wheels in...
The world around me is a blur.It moves fast at an unattainable pace. I feel frozen. I’ve received the unbearable news from my family that my brother,...
We duck into the tiny arched doorway and enter a spectacular, labyrinthine world of rock-formed curiosity.
We’re in Chandigarh, India’s first...
For our 12th workshop in India, we traveled north to the mountainous city of Dharamsala, the home of the Dalai Lama to work with students at his school...
This is Jamyang.
We met him while walking around McLaud Ganj looking for monastaries to invite to do the Hearts of the World project.
He offered to help...
On our way to Amritsar we learned that the The Harmandir Sahib or “Golden Temple,” an impressive 400+ year old sikh holy site offered a free...
We held our largest workshop to date yesterday. 400 students at Sagar Manni High School in Sirsa, Haryana explored their life purpose and expressed their...
The Taj Mahal is one tourist attraction we have not seen in India,
We were driving through Agra at night on our way from Delhi to Kolkata and couldn’t...
There are many questions about the meaning of the painting below. One theory is that the woman on the right is the mistress of Henry the 4th and is pregnant,...
Kerala, India. Land of lush, green abundance and cool winding backwaters. Land of the prawn tali and fish molee. The least corrupt state in all of India,...
Today I taught the girls at Crescent Orphanage the basics of painting and invited them to explore their unique purpose and dreams for life.
“My dream...
We leave the hot roads and impressive temples of Madurai and set off for Kerala. The drive will be long, over 10 hours, many of them at a slant, as we...
Shalev is the seven year old daughter of the founders of Sadhana Forest, a sustainable community who’s driving mission is to reforest 70 acres of...
“I want to help preserve the endangered Tamil language,” said P. Pattarasan, during our Hearts of the World workshop at S.S.S.P. orphanage in Tambaram,...
What’s in your heart?
Sundarban Orphanage in West Bengal was our third Hearts of the World workshop of the India Tour.
My favorite response was from...
Meet Pankaj Bishnoi! He’s our driver, translator, videographer, Hindi teacher and new friend. Pankaj will be with us for our entire 105-day journey...
“No foreigner has even been there,” said Gangaram, the president of Jhilimili who will be our guide. Another guy who frequented this region....
“Namaskar!” Says thirty little voices in unison, greeting me to their classroom. The meaning of Namaskar is ‘I greet the god in you.’...
A shirtless man with a joyful face dressed in a lungi hands me a coconut he’s just chopped from his yard with his machete. His wife sits in the room,...
Varanasi is magnificent. I wanted to experience “the holy city” in its state of waking up and so, being more of a night owl than a morning person, I stayed...
Orien, Pankaj (our driver) and I said goodbye to our new friends at our favorite juice bar in Delhi and left for Varanasi in the early evening after gathering...
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Fifteen long hours after leaving Delhi, between the dust clouds and Tata trucks she finally appeared… the oldest active city in the...
Today we went to Hauz Khas Village to meet with the gallery who will be hosting the Hearts of the World India show on June 20th, after we return from the...
Indian truck art is a tradition, a culture. The drivers of these trucks spend so much time in them and giving them fantastical paint jobs makes the mundane...
In India, rarely is there a straight path to what you are seeking.
My partner Orien and have just arrived in New Delhi and are in India to embark on a...
We stepped out of the airport into the thick early morning mist of New Delhi. A cacophony of horns serenades us as I stare out the window of our taxi,...
The 4 Aces, our next portals project in Vienna opened yesterday with an unveiling event at the Albertina Museum. I could not be there as I had some things...
I’m in Budapest for a spell, and today, I’ve learned some new things.I learned that the word Citadel refers to a fortress built on top of a...
Today I explored the Gellért Hillin, a church built into a series of caves, also called “Saint Ivan’s Cave.”
The place is really amazing,...
In our last days in Europe Orien and I decided to check out Budapest. We snagged an inexpensive ride from Vienna on Carpooling. It is the first time I’ve...
The Natural Art History Museum or the Kunsthitorisches Museum in Vienna is packed full of gaudy golden goodies. Really, so much of it. They love their...
Check it out! I am so excited that the cable car I painted in Chile is featured in the new Global Street Art book: Concrete Canvas. It is filled with large...
I wanted to write a little update about the “4 Aces,” the project I have been working on here in Vienna with fellow artists Pérola Bonfanti...
I finally made it over to the unusually funky tower that graces Vienna’s skyline. It turns out it is part of a larger building which is decked out...
A story of the power of art~
Summer 2012 I started FlutuArte (with my friend Maxine Nienow), a project in Brazil that transformed the rooftops of sixty fishing...
It seems silly now in retrospect, that it would be a Disney artist at a mall that would begin my interest in art. But I realize now it was not the content...
I am so inspired today after going to Ernst Fuch’s house which is now a museum. Fuch’s, often referred to as the father of visionary art was...
Underneath St. Stephan’s Church is a catacombs bursting at the seams. It’s filled with more bones than I have ever seen before. Bones from...
Interactive installations are one of my favorite forms of art. I love it when the artist shares an extended experience with the audience bringing them...
Museums are a great way to get inspired and at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna there are many wonders…
A new view of the Venus of Willendorf
I...
Austria,
I was thrilled when our 4 Aces collaborators ARS Electronica invited us to their annual gala.Last Friday my friends Zel, Bruno, Cosima and I hopped...
I was in Linz to attend the ARS Electronica Gala and after the event we crossed the Danube River to the ARS Electronica (Art and Technology) Museum to...
You are using the internet right now I imagine, and so am I~ You might agree that the internet is our most powerful tool to unite people and to build a...
Vienna, Austria~
A child plays under the Flaktower (Nazi gun tower)
Two friends talk on a bench
Augarten flowers and the Flaktower
Leaves are falling
We...
Today I found this little treasure in the subway in Vienna. The double headed Eagle represents the Hapsburg family, the rulers of throne of the Holy Roman...
I found it, I am so pleased. I found what is probably the best flea market in Vienna. Up until now, I was going to the Noshmarket near the center of Vienna...
I just read that the number of children with autism has gone from 1 in 5,000 in 1975 to 1 in 68 today – THAT IS CRAZY and is prompting me to write...
While I was in New York this Spring I had the pleasure of painting a Hearts of the World mural on Rockaway Beach Boulevard for Beautify Earth. This organization...
It’s the end of a long night of listening to Beirut and painting. Here’s a teaser of the Ace of Coins one of the “gates” for the...
What is your passion? Do you know it?There was a time in my life where I completely lost sight of mine.
I want to share with you a bit of the bumpy road...
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And then, in the midst of nebulous fear, I had a pivotal moment of clarity. I had a thought that changed the rest of my life and it...
I am living in Vienna, just blocks from the legendary old-time amusement park Praterstern which makes for a lovely walk home through the fun.
Old school...
We decided to make a visit to the Secession Building near the Noshmarket in Vienna to marvel the Nouveu architecture and to learn more about it. But the...
I grew up on an island.
The day I turned 18, as a message to myself (and my mother) that i was now free, I went to the tattoo parlor and got inked with...
Before coming to Vienna, I had the presupposition that it would be uptight, much more so than New York. And to be fair, there certainly are things about...
Vienna, Austria
Today I woke up to a great commotion outside my window. I leaned out to take a peek and my eyes widened and my brow furrowed to see paddy...
Vienna is full of surprises.
On our way home one night Orien and I bicycled past a garden and heard the waves of an incredibly enchanting soprano voice...
Today I went to the Museum of Technology in Vienna (the Technisches Museum) and took a trip through time. For 10 Euro you get quite a spectacular walk...
Vienna, Austria-
With our new bicycles we can see the city fast. Orien and I cruise through Augarten, a huge gorgeous park in Vienna’s 2nd District....
Vienna
We purchased a couple used bikes at the flea market for 70 Euro each and set off for the Donaukanal, an offshoot from the Danube River.
The canal...
I’ve been asked a lot lately what this project “4 Aces” is about and so I want to explain it a little here.
This project, by Pérola Bonfanti, Zel...
The airplane descends. The slight shaking from the turbulence and the extra light from the lifted windows wakes me up and I look out across the land as...
Kona, Hawaii
“Wake up! Wake Up!”
I pry open my jet lagged eyes. It’s seven AM and my brother is standing over me with a cup of coffee.
“It’s...
I touch down at Kona International Airport on the Big Island of Hawaii late at night. The Big Island is the largest and most southeastern Island in the...
Pérola and I have been painting the portals for our Vienna project, now a collaboration with three other talented people, Zel Nonnenberg a video artist,...
Jardim Zoológico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oh what wonders are there to behold at the Rio Zoo? My boyfriend Orien and I pay our ten real each (approx $5...
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In this excursion my phone, despite being sealed in a plastic bag for safety, dies a watery death destroying my photos, so you will have...
Niteroi, Brazil
We sit to the side of the bridge and take turns blowing up the air mattress, 20 breaths at a time. It takes a total of one hundred and...
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, every Saturday there is a Feira (farmers market) on Rua Paulo Barreto (see map below). In fact this market moves around to different...
It’s our last day in Ilha Grande and we pack up and head to the next little town. It is surprisingly close, only about 5 minutes from where we camped....
I awaken in the tent, hot, sandy and sticky. Orien and I pack all our things and head out to find the Blue Lagoon. But first, we must cross the bay. The...
(continued) Ilha Grande, Brazil-
We take off down the trail and encounter many wonders including an old, crumbling aqueduct. We circumvent a distressed,...
For years I’ve heard about Ilha Grande, a tropical island off the coast of Brazil with one of the richest ecosystems in the world. There are no roads,...
We venture across the water, taking the ferry to the New Jersey of Rio, Niteroi. Niteroi is known for its contemporary art museum, which looks like a spaceship....
The singing increased as the night pressed on. I sat cross legged on my mat next to Orien, on his. Being his first time drinking the brew, naturally he...
When my friend Zel told me of a group who held Ayahuasca ceremonies in the jungle of Brazil I signed on instantly. I have consumed the brew of the “Spirit...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It’s another sunny day in Rio and Orien and I decide to go to explore the caves, or cavernas (in Portuguese) rumored to be...
My love is in Brazil visiting me. His name is Orien. He is a wildly creative artist and craftsman with a great sense for adventure and good tmies. We have...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I’ve been back in Brazil for just a few days and let me tell you, I found the spot. Up until just recently I didn’t...
Manhattan, New York~
Alaska was another world. Where survival seems to have been the driving force for ages. Dog sleds still have their place, hunting,...
My mother has been training for the Iditarod for four years and this will be her third race. We arrive in Willow, on the frozen lake bed from where the...
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Willow, Alaksa
My mother stands on the main dog sled and i sit inside it. Her friend Cindy is trailing on the back in another sled…...
Alaska
I wake up to the sound of howling sled dogs once again. It’s the early morning rooster crow of Willow, Alaska. Today is a special day. It...
(Continued) Picking the brain of vetran Iditarod racer, Bob Chupack on why he loves this race.
He continued, “not to sound kooky or anything… but I feel...
When my mother first told me that she was training to run the Iditarod, I have to admit my first thought was why??
Why run the Iditarod? Why spend so much...
Anchorage, Alaska
I am in here to send my mother off on her third Iditarod dog sled race and also have the exciting chance to ride in her sled during the...
Willow, Alaska
I wake up on the couch to the sounds of sled dogs howling in the yard. I’m sweating in front of the wood stove which has burned all...
Vintage porcelain dishes, colorful plastic trinkets and toys, worn miniature playing cards, embroidered turkish clothes, big, warm fur coats, and people...
I am on my way to Anchorage Alaska to ride in my mother’s sled at the ceremonial start of the Iditarod. The Iditarod, called “The Last Great...
After days of overcast, the sun breaks triumphantly through the grey bringing with it a crisp, blue sky. Perola and I, after hermiting ourselves up in...
I am in Vienna until Wednesday and then I will board a plane to go to Alaska for a once in a lifetime opportunity to ride in a sled for the ceremonial...
After several days of staying mostly inside, painting and having meetings about Aces of Perception, ( our new “portals” project for Vienna),...
I am excited to be in Vienna and to be working on our next project, The Aces of Percepion, an evolution of The 13 Portals project, a public art experience...
It’s my third day in Vienna this time around and today Perola and I went to Palmenhaus restaurant to meet with some lawyers. I ordered the sea bass...
After a very long journey, from Rio, Brazil to Houston to Washington DC, I have finally arrived in Vienna. Perola and our friend, a talented video artist...
We go to Leme, because it is one of the cleanest beaches in Rio. The famous Copacabana is overcrowded as are many others in Rio. Leme is populated, but...
After a few days in Rio, Perola and I decide to take a trip to Mangaratiba, where her family has a beach house. We can begin painting the portals for our...
Before I begin writing about new adventures in 2014, I want to wrap up 2013 with a summary in pictures. It was really an amazing year, full of inspiration,...
Up up in the air again. I write you from the sky, somewhere in between NYC and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am off to meet up with my Brazilian friend and...
I am having a wonderful time painting a city tram in Napoli. My friend Jade Fusco and I are collaborating on it, merging our styles and vision. She is...
Hearts of the World is an ongoing collaborative art project involving children and adults from all over the globe. With a special emphasis on children,...
We wake up early and take the train out past the city limits of Napoli. We roll by palm trees and Italian vilas. Streaks of yellows, corals and greens.
Mt....
Napoli, Italy
These days are sweet.
I wake up to the transcendent drones of Nam myoho renge kyo filtering up the spiral staircase from the downstairs living...
Today I begin painting one of Napoli’s city trams!
The tram is one of the few remaining vintage trams left in Napoli. Most of the ones in service...
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Over the fence we go! And as soon as my feet land on the other side I can’t help but think that we shoulda brought the cheese that we...
We are on the road to Tuscany to see the long awaited Tarot Garden of Niki de St. Phalle. It’s only when we are about halfway there that we check...
We leave Napoli and set off for Tuscany to visit Niki de St Phalle’s Tarot Garden, a magical place I’ve wanted to visit for years~
Destination...
In the blue shadow of a old church I sit on a stone bench in the Center of Napoli eating my first slice of Italian pizza. They call it Portafoglio, which...
Our last day in Venice was full of great art~
We visited many other pavilions at the Biennale.
The Russian Pavilion was provocative, thoughtful, participatory...
Now in its 55th year, the Venice Biennale is made up of avant garde art from all over the world.
With that said, understandably, the art was all over...
Wake up! Venice is in front of us!
With a jolt of excitement I spring up from the back seat of the car. We have just driven four hours from Vienna to...
My last days in Vienna were filled with exploration and coffee. Perola and I walked everywhere marveling at the architecture, impressive statues and ornate...
Austria.
We arrive at Mauthausen, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps in Europe. My stomach tightens and I start to feel a little ill. I know I...
Vienna and the hunt for magical doors continues…
Perola and I wander down another hundred streets in search of portal locations for our next interactive...
I wake up in the “City of Dreams.”
Vienna.
It is very early and still dark. It’s my first day here and a buzzing anticipation ignites...
NYC/Vienna (photos courtesy of inhabitat and Sunboe.com)
I am off on another journey~ I will be gone five weeks; spending one week in Austria scouting...
Out and About in the East Village
In this weekly feature, East Village-based photographer James Maher provides us with a quick snapshot of someone...
Soon I am heading back to New York after spending 3 months traveling abroad in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Brazil. Spring is by far my favorite season to be...
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So you follow the rainbow down the street, around the corner, across the road, around the block, down the way,...
To protect the innocent and/or the guilty, the following may or may not be true~
The Art Explosion cracked open a door in my mind. It showed me that with...
I was thrilled to randomly find this beautiful image of the cable car I painted in Valparaiso Chile in Viaje Mais Magazine. I picked up the magazine because...
Portal 5 in the 13 Portals project is Expression. The 5 symbolizes the beginning of the game; man playing and experimenting with the material world, the...
Art Explosion was developed by the Free Art Society and I in 2010 and involved blasting one city block with concentrated, site specific street art overnight...
Portal 5, Expression. The Joker.
Perola and I have begun painting Portal 5 of the 13 Portals project. The number 5 represents expression, language, technology,...
Perola Bonfanti and I have created a page for our 13 Portal project on Facebook. "Like" us to find out when the project officially launches~
Check...
Take the Fort! is # 10 on my list of Top 10 “Road Less Traveled” things to do in Rio because Forte Tamandaré, found on a tiny island at the...
As libererating as it is to be standing before the Cristo Rendentor statue at 6am with no tourists around and as close as you might feel to God sitting...
#8 of my Top 10 “Road Less Traveled” Things to do in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is visiting the Escada de Selaron.
Lapa is Rio’s Quintessential...
If you have ever been to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil you have noticed the giant rock with the flat top, shaped something like a rectangle from afar. This is...
#6 out of my top 10 “road less traveled” things to do in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a picnic (or any kind of visit) to the Reservatório do...
#5 Explore the grounds of Parque Lage
Parque Lage is a gorgeous public park full of lush green tropical plants located in Jardim Botanico in Rio de Janiero,...
Seeing Cristo Redentor sans tourists is #4 on my Top 10 Things to do in Rio de Janeiro
The Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue is the symbol of...
As promised, here are the first three picks on my list of Top 10 “Road less traveled” things to do in Rio de Janeiro.
#1 Dance until the sun...
A friend recently sent me this National Geographic travel article featuring an image of Ascensor Artilleria, the cable car I painted in Valparaiso Chile...
A few days ago Perola and I received word from Chris Flash, a local East Villager and the founder of The Shadow magazine that Portal 1 had been vandalized....
Portal 3 was a big challenge. Carnival happened, the heat got out of control, I got sick, Perola painted an entire dragon and then, in an instant, white-washed...
There are many sides to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Perola, born in Rio, is totally over it and many Cariocas (people from Rio) get out of the city for...
Time is lost somewhere between midnight and morning as I sit looking out my bedroom window feeling deeply peaceful. The natural beauty around me is breathtaking....
Portal Two is the embodiment of the great paradox.
It’s lesson is the same of the yin yang and is a very important...
I’ve been in Rio for less than a week and I need to write about the colors of Haiti (from where I’ve just come) before they fade.
The Haitian street markets...
A well worn snakeskin and folded Brazilian flag lay nestled aside a large mound of wild tobacco on a brilliant, red silk cloth which is laid on the wicker...
I just received word that my mural in NYC’s Grand Central Terminal is featured for the April page of New York’s beloved pizza pioneer Two Boots....
What are the children like who grow up in the face of abject poverty? What is in their hearts? What are their dreams?
Cité Soleil, Haiti
We drive down...
Twas a long day~~~
Here are some photos of a Tap Tap I finished painting today in Haiti.
Tomorrow I travel to Rio ~
:)More soon…
Haiti
I step off the frigid air-conditioned airplane and step out onto the tarmac of the Port au Prince airport and into the hot Haitian sun.
Usually...
There is not a lot of art on the street here in Haiti. In the week that I am here I would love to leave behind a Universal Heart. On a wall, on a truck,...
My last days in Cuba were filled with adventures and clues to a complex culture that I can only scratch the surface of in the short week I was there. In...
I grab my bag of paint and brushes. I stack the Hearts of the World panels that I recently silk-screened in the backyard of my Casa Particular (guest home)...
My alarm sounds and I roll out of bed with squinty eyes and stumble into the dining room.
People say Cuba is stuck in a time warp and the house I am staying...
I love to paint a moving canvas (while still, of course). Art that moves comes alive and reaches places that a stationary wall cannot. While I am in Cuba...
I have begun another southern journey. I start with a week in Cuba and then move on to Haiti for another week. After Haiti I plan to spend a month or two...
I started the Hearts of the World project in 2010, it’s an ongoing project that I plan to take to the corners of the earth. After painting many stylized...
ROCKAWAY KIDS CARNIVAL This Saturday, November 17, 1pm-4pm
Location TBA shortly! (Get in touch if you know any big vacant lots in The Rockaways.)...
The Free Art Society and I just wrapped the Third Annual Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party. It was a great success, more than doubling in size from the first...
Walker Fee is one of my best friends and one of the most talented and prolific artists I know. He lives and breathes his art. As I type this as I am sitting...
Burning man is approaching. This means it’s time to deck out the school bus my friend Maxine bought to drive across country. She painted the thing...
Portal # 1, the Sun Portal, is finally finished. Perola and I have spent many late nights and all of our spare moments working on it.
It is my first time...
Perola and I are almost finished with the first of thirteen portals we are making for our portal project. The first portal corresponds to the sun. For...
Perola Bonfanti and I are formulating our next idea. It is a collaborative, interactive public street art project that will...
Click the image to watch the video
The ascensor (incline railroad) I painted last year in Valparaiso, Chile appears in the first clip of this video on...
I went to third annual Mermaid Lagoon ocean party at the House of Yes.It was magical, spectacular and so much fun!
Enjoy the photos~
Mermaid Lagoon was...
Here’s a little video of a painting made as an extension of the FlutuArte project.
It was painted by Makatron, Bruno Smoky, Pazitos with help from...
Life is sweet. I am thrilled to be back in New York with my family of friends. Lately we have been taking our golden dragon catamaran our for spins on...
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photos by Tod Seelie
Our gang arrived at Jamaica Bay, Queens and unloaded our freshly painted, sparkly, golden water dragon catamaran,...
Do you ever experience synchronicities in your life that boggle your mind, things that are just too coincidental… just too unusual to be random chance?
After...
It’s all very surreal. Tomorrow is my last day in Rio. We just celebrated the opening of the FlutuArte gallery with a big party at sea. It was indescribably...
I awoke early with bubbling anticipation, kind of like the feeling I used to get as a child on Christmas morning, except this excitement was larger and...
I have so many words to describe the epic party that was FlutuFESTA… but I am exhausted and still decompressing so I will write it all tomorrow...
Tomorrow we float the high seas!
We will make a procession with the art boats and tie them up into a circle in the middle of Guanabara bay. There will...
Things are insanely busy as we prepare for the most epic party we’ve ever planned.
It’s packed with surprises.
Hopefully you are in Rio so...
Ahoy Scallywags and refined Yachtsmen alike!
Set sail this 29th of June on the high seas with a FlutuFESTA as the Free Art Society celebrates the success...
I have been living in a hostel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the last three months while working on the FlutuArte project. In my time here I have met many...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
FlutuFESTA, our opening party for FlutuArte is approaching quickly and we are working really hard to have everything ready in time....
Rio de Janeiro,
Colorful flags hang festively from the ceiling. Jesus, Bhudda and Krishna, sit flickering with reflected light in front of a dancing candle....
Pamela Castro is a Brazilian artist, activist, teacher, leader, and feminist and the latest addition to the FlutuArte project. Known widely by her street...
Nuvem, the mobile party, photo courtesy of Nuvem
Dozens of bicycles lay propped up against the fence surrounding an old unique statue in the center of...
FlutuFesta is the official opening celebration for FlutuArte, the floating art gallery we’ve
been creating by painting the tops of fishing boats...
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...
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...
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,...
Rio de Janeiro,
Brilliant amorphous colors shift, undulating with fragments of forming thought. Responsibilities, joys and conflicts circle in organic...
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(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...
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)...
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...
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 Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro is an old mansion from the 1800’s that’s been turned into a visual arts school. It sits at the foot of Corcavado,...
I still feel the rush of excitement as I lay in my bed reliving the memories of last night’s trespassing excursion in the expansive jungles of Parque...
I am so moved by words right now that I have no words. I will try to conjure some~
The fishermen inspire me everyday at the harbor. Today the FlutuArte...
Today I took a day off.
We have all been working so hard on the FlutuArte project and in great need of a recharge, so we sought refuge in the jungle.
Dan,...
I am sitting on the veranda of our hostel on a big couch squeezed between two of my favorite people in the world Maxine Nienow, my co conspirator in the...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
After a full and glorious day of painting on top of fishing boats in the hot sun, the FlutuArte team took Maxine Nienow’s...
Rio de Janeiro-
It has been over a month since the birth of the FlutuArte (floating-gallery) project and in this time, despite my shoddy Portuguese, I...
Rio, de Janeiro
Earlier today I was at the harbor rowing around in a little rowboat with my Brazilian friend Ariel, paddling from boat to boat to record...
It’s the end of a long day painting at the harbor followed by an inspiring night in Copacabana.
Finishing a day of painting at the square. ~FlutuArte!
It’s...
Hearts of the World interview in AS-ISN’T
Check out my recent interview with AS-ISN’T about the Hearts of the World project.
Heart painted...
Today I had the pleasure of hanging with the boys from Riot de Janeiro, a local crew of unconventional street artists and video virtuosos. About eight...
In Rio de Janeiro there is so much to discover!
Yesterday after working on FlutuArte, our floating gallery project at Urca Harbor, we took the honey bee...
Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.-Pablo Picasso.
In my suitcase are 80 heart panels that I’ve shlepped...
I come home early in the morning from a late night out just in time to catch the sunrise from Vidigal, the favela where I have been staying with my new...
I am here to stay for awhile!
I gave up my ticket to Columbia to stay here in Rio de Janeiro to immerse myself in this marvelous city and to delve into...
Before I came to Rio de Janeiro I thought that the city would be full of street art. After I arrived, I thought to myself “Where is it all?”...
I am officially alone in Rio de Janeiro after my friends have gone back to NYC. Lately I feel as if I am constantly riding the line between soaring, blissful...
I am writing this from the balcony of my new apartment in the historical and peaceful neighborhood called Urca in Rio de Janeiro. The salty ocean breeze...
I danced in Carnival!
Words cannot express my night, it was overwhelmingly surreal to march down the center of the Sambodramo with thousands of other sequined,...
Yesterday was a perfect day. I began the painting of Jon Silver’s (aka Captain Johnny Boy’s) fishing boat with some help from my friends from...
In Rio de Janeiro, there is so much to paint!
For the last two years I have been on a mission to unite people from disparate cultures by painting the Universal...
Free heART day at Think Coffee
On Sunday Nov 20th I will be giving away 50 pieces of FREE ART at Think Coffee to the first 50 people through the door...