As a first generation Salvadoran-American, historical collective memory is the prime influence and inspiration for my work. Every face, every voice, and every hand holds a story. Through art one can rediscover what has been […][…]
The objects we keep are a testament to the depth and breadth of being human and loving. The objects we keep are sacred containers. This body of work seeded itself 15 years ago when the […][…]
Bio I was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1989 and spent an influential chunk of my childhood in Southeast Asia. A big turning point for me was living in Jakarta, Indonesia and being evacuated to […][…]
Gaia Alari, also known as Marie-Esther, is an entirely self-taught artist from Milan, Italy. Since 2009, she has dedicated her free time away from her medical studies and work to improve her skills in the field of […][…]
This spring, a nine-year-old dream came true: to direct a live collaboration with an orbiting astronaut on the International Space Station. Co-Sponsored by BELLA GAIA, this ‘StarJAM’ was an improvised musical performance between BELLA GAIA […][…]
“I’m an object. An object dirty with blood. That creates other objects…” – Clarice Lispector, Augua Viva It is the best of times, it is the worst of times… It is the time of fulfillment, […][…]
Most of my paintings are representational and abstract, quite unlike this group. I began painting them while in psychotherapy. The Perpetrator Series came about expectedly. One day I had the urge to paint from my […][…]
In my earliest memory, I was laying heavily sedated on a hospital bed at three years old. In the four hours prior to that memory, my heart had been cut out from chest and my […][…]
For the past couple of years, I have been working on the Fear Project, which explores other people’s fears through their words and my visuals. The fear themes run the gamut and include failure, losing […][…]
I enjoyed drawing, as all children do. Understanding my surroundings was still far away, but there were smells and feelings, huge rats and headaches. It was another life strongly influenced by nature. I had been […][…]
