![]() A lot of the symbols deal with navigation and can be read as the sun or moon cycles, but also as hazards.Elaborating on the ornate and abstract visual language of wild style graffiti, Rammellzee decided to create his own Alphabet, arming the letter for assault against the tyranny of our information age. It’s like an assemblage, or an abstracted shipwreck world of a person wishing to go home or thinking about home. The basis for the layout is based on submarine war flags from WW2 and, since I’m from both Japan and the United States, a lot of my personal identity and conflicts are represented in the naval atmosphere of the Pacific Ocean. “I tried to emulate and evolve using patches and the language of Hexology and some other imagery to make these quilts. I found it ironic that this quilt, which represents so much about home, comfort, safety and that is something that carries so much of your heritage, is used to protect the things from your home in transit when moving from one to another.” The idea behind making these quilts – I call them Conflict quilts – is that they are actually packing blankets. “My body of work is called Home from home and the idea is that people understand what does it really mean to say that phrase and how it relates to the concept of ‘home’. The exhibition is open to visit on Saturdays in the city’s Eastern Market district, and the three artists talked us through the work that they have on show. The Red Bull House of Art is a place for the people of Detroit and visitors alike to enjoy the creative scene that the city is building for itself in the wake of turbulent times that came before. The opening night was a packed affair that brought highbrow art dealers and Yeezy-clad youngsters alongside art school dropouts and a particular local elderly couple who showed everyone up on the dance floor. A lot of his formal training as a painter was taken from Thanga, a Tibetan Buddhist style and, although he chose not to adopt the aesthetic of the methodology in animation, formality and functionality are still evident in his process. Kiji is a Japanese-born New York-based illustrator and art director working around the concept of reducing visual language to be a vision. Her work has developed into an interactive dialogue about her struggles with anxiety as the House of Art has given her the opportunity and resources to branch out into new mediums. Ellannah Sadkin works with cartoons as her central point of inspiration, as she feels that they represent simpler elements of society. Tschabalala Self’s work focuses on the female black body and its misinterpretation in society, reiterating that it’s more important than ever that transformative art is being made in the current political climate of suppression and elimination. In-keeping with the contrastive nature of the city, the three artists residing at the House of Art this time around bear very few similarities in neither the nature of their work, nor the process of creating it. Whatever you find in Detroit, it’s sure to churn out the complete opposite in some way or another right before your waiting eyes. ![]() It’s of course the motherland of Motown, but it also gave birth to the contemporary techno scene before it was adopted by a new step mum called Europe. ![]() Yet, you enter the Easter Market area where the city’s art scene is developing to find building after building consumed by murals and a neighbourhood reimagined in technicolour. Endless streets are lined with run-down abandoned houses, and desolate high-rise buildings give a sense of a utopian ghost town. The city became a victim of its own success and as technology advanced and auto jobs moved elsewhere, the city had no back-up industry to step into the big shoes that laid empty.Īlthough the gentrification wheels have started their turning process in Detroit, it’s a city with juxtaposition and contrast hidden in every last nook and cranny. Between the late 50s and the early 60s, the city with an endearing commitment to singing the praises of its auto industry was silenced by an unwillingness to diversify into other industries. ![]() Once the fourth largest city in the states by population, Detroit is the only city to host Red Bull’s House of Art.
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