After a few mishaps, a couple panic attacks and a blister, I believe that I’m now ready to announce my exciting news! Starting June 6th, the talented Cameron Tiede and myself are having a duo show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in LA!

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“Heart Strings”
10 x 13″
Egg Tempera / Oil on Hardboard

“Bone Orchard”

Exploring the underpinnings, bumps, and anomalies in all manner of historical arcana, Bonni Reid’s subject matter reflects a dark underlying mythos that belies the innocence, wonder, and imagination of a hazy past. Reid combines these elements in a clear, graphic, almost deadpan style, using her own hand-made ingredients mixed from gesso, egg tempera, shellac flakes and oil paint glazing for finish.

“Trees like bones, skulls like fruit, organs like flowers, branches like veins – where live things die and dead things grow. A place that while very real in what it describes, can only be an impossibility when taken literally by its fanciful phraseology. This seemed to be the very place where my images bore their own fruit, further connotating this strange nowhere-land where the similarities of design in nature, resemblance between all organic things, whether anatomical, botanical, or even zoological, come together. “Somehow in this bone orchard everything is both mortal and immortal, yet all the same thing. And within these similarities lie questions, puzzles, possibilities that form playful nightmares, tricks of the eye – a natural surreality. Yet at the same time it convinces me that there can be no deceitful juxtaposition of imagery in this place and that the surreal is everywhere and all around. Because, really – that’s life.”

I often wonder how places like My Space are able to control and censor everything that’s posted and never in a hundred years did I expect that I’d have something removed due to content, but here am writing in defense of myself.

Was it because Anais Nin did wrote erotica? Seems unlikely. I did cover her nipples with pasties in this original painting of her so I’m not sure why it was removed. I was also warned that I might be removed from My Space if I continue posting “nude/sexually explicit, violent” images, but I didn’t think I was doing so to begin with. I’m confused.

How I came upon this ad, I’m not sure -it was one of those”googling one thing and came across another” situations I guess. The site I found it on is called Modern Mechanix and it’s filled to the rim with old magazine clippings  of weird ads, crazy contraptions and all sorts of stuff to do with how our past perceived the future.