Zina Artist

Cally Festival:11

@Caledonian Road, North London

Zina & Masai

Cally Festival 3rd July,

Live Painting with Louis Masai Michel @ Caledonian Road

Louis Masai Michel and his animal skills;

I guess we missed the party..

Louis also painted on the RSPCA wall, a picture of our boxer Lola.

Cosmic Egg @ Upfest

Eros (‘Love’) is the Universal Being, the creator of all individual expressions of life.

"The Cosmic Egg- Eros Phanes"
Med: Gouache on canvas

Size: 35,5 cm x 45cm
Exhibited @Upfest 2011 Bristol

http://www.upfest.co.uk/

Some research if you´re interested:

Eros shines as a great Light—the Light of the Universe. As such he was known as Phanes (‘Brilliant’), the golden-winged god of light. He was also known as Ericapaeus (‘Power’), Logos ('Word' or ‘Wisdom’) and Metis (‘Intelligence’). The Romans called him Cupid.

Eros was the name given by the Orphic and Greek philosophers to the ‘First-born’ (Protogonus)—the first complete manifestation of Divinity. He was described mythologically as the son of Nyx (‘Night’- also known as Aether, the Holy Spirit, the divine Potential—the still, silent potential of all movement, sound, law and creativity.) and Boreas (‘North Wind’), who themselves were derived from Aether (‘Spirit’) and Erebus (‘Darkness’). Eros was born from the Cosmic Egg laid by Nyx and fertilised by Boreas.

Although referred to as ‘He’, Eros/Phanes is both male and female. As he burst asunder the Cosmic Egg, the two halves formed Heaven (Uranus) and Earth (Gaea/ Gaia). All the elements, gods, goddesses, nature, everything, was contained within and emerged from his being. More on: The Story of the Cosmic Egg.

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Upfest:11 Shutter Piece

Zina & Masai

A piece I did on the organic store of the lovely lady that housed us that weekend.

Guess that is the worst shutter you could ever paint on, since its not much to paint on. It was full of tiny wholes, it was basically almost a perfect imprint on the plastic on the back in the end.

Louis Masai Michel on the other side;

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Bird T- Shirt Design

Bird T-shirt Design:

"Out Of the Blue"

reBearth (rooster)

"reBearth"

Details:

Medium: Gouache on Wood

Size: 37' x 21'5(inches), 94cm x 54.6cm, Oval.

show title: "Magic Zoo"

@Village Underground Sun 8th May

Story:

inspiration from a Japanese Pheonix Bantam rooster, decorative ornaments, mythology, symbolism, numerology and the chakra. It's a battle between the ego(solar plexus) and the true self, the machine is trying to control the earth, while the heart and throat is locked and separated not connecting the top chakra with the beautiful roots (feathers).

A phoenix has a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet. (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends) "A mythical bird that never dies (rebirth), the phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our environment and the events unfolding within it. The phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration." - The Feng Shui Handbook, feng shui Master Lam Kam Chuen

Close ups:

Portobello Mural

2011:

Painting with the West Bank London Crew;

Trans1, Ordu, Dlish, False, Masai, Zina.

(10-11.04.11)

Famous film scenes get the graffiti treatment

Kensington; Chelsea Chronicle

And

Evening Standard

Thanks to curator Tommy Blaquiere we had some good times shaking some cans in the sun, close to Ladbroke Grove and the walkway through to Portobello Market.

Im counting on four fingers as to how many times I be playing with spraycans too, keep it coming!