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way that I could understand, it wasn’t bright and breezy, it
wasn’t rainbows and unicorns, it was raw and honest and
brutal and that environment allowed me to fully explore my
own truth, it fueled my expression.
I love painting murals, the experience is so completely
different from creating studio work. I don’t prefer one over
the other, studio work allows me time alone. Half the time I
spend in studio is spent staring, silently deciding on the next
slow dance, like ballet, bleeding feet wrapped in satin.
When I am painting murals, I am uncomfortable in a
different way, I’m using a medium that is not natural for
me, the challenges are different, there is human interaction,
my mistakes are on public display so I paint fast in an
uncontrollable environment. I love collaborating with the
elements, being outside, it’s brutal.
The mural took 2-3 weeks, it was during hurricane season so
we lost about 5 days due to rain.
There is absolutely no way that I can try to put that emotion
in words. This had been the one of the most challenging
experiences, from hoisting scaffolding up the side of the
theatre, to building the scaffolding on a pitched roof, then
discovering on the third level that I was in fact afraid of
heights. Having to overcome that fear as well as the fear of
the enormity of this project, trying not to let anyone see how
was not creatively ready for… I spent many silent mornings
alone up there, growing, I learned a lot about myself during
that experience.
“City light moments,
Heart beat silenced
Breathing interrupted by the dream of a thing…
Each night till the morning,
Repeat.”
-BB
I have a solo show coming up Feb 8th at Station House in
St Pete, the video is being worked on and will be released
and will be a representation of what 2017 meant for me as
an individual and also as an active member of the human
species. I feel the climate has been a dark and confusing
one for most humans on so many levels, politically,
emotionally, the chaos has been exposed through nature,
hurricanes, landslides, mindless murder, there are shards of
all this inside of my own person I need to release and in
maybe even understanding, through the creative process.
during the festival. Myself, Cam and Whitney are also in
talks with the Rialto Theatre about doing a Reunion show,