An interview with John Felix Arnold about his latest solo exhibition Time as a Sanctuary at Anchorlight Gallery. Interview by Olivia Huntley John Felix Arnold’s solo exhibition, Time as a Sanctuary, investigates concepts such as death, belonging, place, memory, & time. The exhibition hosts a wide range of media, including abstract painting, graphite drawings, video, & sculptural installation. With aesthetic nods to artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, & David Hammons, Arnold has created an environment born out …
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I wrote Why Charlotte’s East Side is known as the ‘Salad Bowl Community’ for The Charlotte Observer. The story is about what immigrants do with when white flight leaves areas impoverished and abandoned. There was a lot of other components that I wished I could’ve incorporated, like the gentrifying of the Black Belmont neighborhood, especially after some Black Charlotteans were displaced in the 60’s and 70’s because of the urban renewal program. The wealth discrepancy among whites and Blacks and …
Released at the tail-end of 2018, there is much to revisit on Ritual Mystik, Zion I’s album of deep-soul bangers. Unfairly aligned with the West Coast’s hyphy movement, Zion I, in fact, has practiced a far more poised discipline in his work. Sourcing from material like the I Ching and philosophies like Sufism and Taoism, the LA-based rapper has explored his fair share of life’s more arcane matters in his proliferating rhymes. Best-known for his work with producer AmpLive for …
Humancloud Abandonment dropped on January 22 and even prior to the release, people were pre-ordering the 7″. They were enjoying D.D.B. and the title track that came as an insta-download after purchasing the vinyl. To see the amount of people that copped the vinyl was incredible. Only 100 vinyl pieces are in existence. When they’re gone they’re gone and heads are continuing to support the project. A lot has been going on this past week. People have been reaching to …
From the reissue of my record, Humancloud Abandonment, pre-orders for the limited addition 7″ of the single D.D.B. are now available. The B-side is the title track. There will only be 100 copies of vinyl in existence. For more details, All the tracks are remastered by Uncommon Record‘s label head, rapper and producer, Nasa. “I’m gonna have a record on vinyl” is me letting it sink in. This record is almost 20 years old. Man, I’m hype to see this …
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