''Art in Miami' with Brandi Reddick, Wednesday, February 17 (*please note date and lecturer change)'

''Art in Miami' with Brandi Reddick, Wednesday, February 17 (*please note date and lecturer change)'

Learn to live and let love

I complain a lot about business in Miami and it's lawlessness, particularly in the realm of Art . I have come to accept that about this city and have decided to move on, grasping tirelessly on the beauty that lies within.

Seeping through the cracks of a plastic exterior is a city that has a grand history and a beauty to be captured in the nature by many great artists. I came to Miami for that reason, as I have been given a challenge to find that beauty and exploit it for my own means. I will do it with love, respecting its nature and give it proper credence. I have been given some citrus, and I must squeeze out the juice...and drink it.

I will be focusing my sculpture on the journey of finding Miami's history and creating a love relationship with the land, and history of its people. (In regards to current people, I am only see them as temporary skin on the surface, interwoven weakly and all shredding away to reveal the underbelly, seeping through the holes.) The history here is so diverse and the land so altered that there needs to be a more humane contingency to represent it. So, exploit it, I will not. I will simply reveal it for what it is to me and maybe more people will share that beauty.

Our work is love.