Divine Alignment w/ artist Harmonia Rosales
It’s every artist’s dream to be able to do what you want to do. International superstar artists, like today’s guest, Harmonia Rosales, are out here living their creative dreams and its inspirational to all the rest of us. Not only has Harmonia been creating her amazing Renaissance inspired paintings, she has recently finished her first sculpture commission with Unbound at the King’s Chapel in Boston. As if that wasn’t amazing enough she has written Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic, a personal retelling of African myths passed down to her from her grandmother. Harmonia talks about all her latest works and we get into other topics like: what is it like in the studio with Harmonia, the good and bad parts about her success and the power of the stories in her high anticipated book. Listen, subscribe and share!
Episode 208 topics include:
maturing as an artist vs evolving as an artist
creating Unbound sculpture for King’s Chapel
lesson learned at the foundry
talking to/ talking with your art
Harmonia’s perfect studio day
artists need encouragement
creating her new book Chronicles of Ori
using mythology and history to connect to your roots
the gift and curse of success as an artist
Harmonia Rosales in the studio
Harmonia Rosales Bio
Since the genesis of her career, Harmonia Rosales’s main artistic concern has focused on Black female empowerment in Western culture, depicting and honoring the African diaspora.
As a young girl, the impeccable skill and composition of the Renaissance masters' fascinated her but the depiction of white hierarchy and the idealization of subordinate women, often falling under Eurocentric notions of beauty, dissuaded her passion. Thus, her message is not to create an ideal or simply to copy, but rather to create a sense of harmony between the struggling dichotomies.
The artist is informed by the ebb and flow of contemporary society where she seeks to reimagine new forms of aesthetic beauty, snuggled somewhere between pure love and ideological counter-hegemony.
Rosales draws on the energy of living life as a woman of color and society's objectification of that identity. Yet her subjects embody something within us all as they serve as conduits to an inner struggle within our society, which she depicts through metaphorical crowns and deities. The primary purpose of her art is and will always be to encourage sympathy, empathy, and empowerment.
See more: Harmonia Rosales’ website + Harmonia Rosales’ IG honeiee
Harmonia Rosales Launches Book Tour For Chronicles Of Ori: An African Epic
Jamaal Barber: @JBarberStudio
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