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#Repost @erincurrierfineart with @let.repost • • • • • • Bowie! This recently completed portrait will be in my solo show Arte y Alma opening Friday 5-7 June 24th at Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Please come!!! Arte y Alma— Art & Soul— are works arising from my lifelong engagement with the intersection of the Arts and Spirit, or ‘Soul’ (‘Soul’ referring to the imperishable: one’s pure heart essence or ‘life force’). The new series of portraits illuminate and celebrate those for whom creative expression, and the deepest place that this expression arises from, are inextricably linked. Arte y Alma posits the possibility of touching upon or tapping into the ineffable through the Arts, Martial Arts, Meditation, Dance, Poetry, and Music. I have always wanted to create a portrait of David Bowie: a personal favorite and considered the most influential musician of the 20th Century. There was no one like him: he was utterly original and unique in everything that he created. In addition to being a musician, dancer, visual artist, writer, and actor; Bowie was a true Seeker: his creative work was driven by an irresistible poetic inquiry. He shared many of my own interests: in Buddhism, Beat poetry, gnosticism, and mysticism, for example. He also leveraged his fame in the service of equality & human rights. For all these reasons, Bowie perfectly embodies the theme of my new series. The portrait is also part of a future traveling exhibition of the love & art & travels— & the teachers & teachings they were rooted in— of my late partner Anthony Hassett & I. All the ‘post-consumer waste’ layered into the background references his life and work: torn rock posters from Berlin and Sydney; storefront fashion offerings from Kenya and Nigeria; empty floodlight boxes left behind from a Buddhist procession in Luang Prabang, Laos. #bowie #davidbowie #davidjones #portrait #savethedate #hunkydory #aladdinsane #manwhofelltoearth #poetry #poet #musician #beats #beat #glam #aheadoftime #arteyalma #rock #creativecounterpower #imagination #ephemeral #ziggystardust #gnosticism #figurativeart #original #unique #musico #poeta #erincurrier #erincurrierfineart (em Radio Tatuape FM) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce2TWw6Ocad/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=