In his 1977 Christmas Lectures at London’s Royal Establishment, Carl Sagan described the potential of verbal exchange with extraterrestrials, stating, “Something you’d must do first is to make certain you’ll be able to perceive the message.” Dino Felipe, an iconic, prolific Miami musician and artist who, over the last two decades, has produced loads of works of art and recorded a couple of hundred albums—the majority of which he made in his bed room—has described his output because the manufactured from channeling: This is, he’s the recipient of particular transmissions from more than a few corners of the dream international and varied celestial beings.
The identify of Felipe’s exhibition right here, “Wigs on Timber,” is borrowed from {a photograph} within the display that includes the titular hairpieces dangling from diverse floras in Atlanta. This spell binding, lengthy late retrospective is a voyage during the unconscious made completely and gloriously mindful. A standout acrylic portray, Boy in a Lawn, 2022, illustrates the pleasures of the herbal panorama, amplified by means of the creativeness: The topic, rendered as a beatifically elephantine determine, is surrounded by means of swirling butterflies, curlicues, and vines. Sound Object, 2015, is a hand-crafted software comprising, amongst different pieces, a wind chime, staples, and a plaster spreader, which he used for the making of his 2015 album Symphonica Sufrida. Sketches from dream journals divulge the artist’s oneiric studies as a sentient equation, a dwelling link, and an ant-size creature. (“We’re all liked—so we will have to love ourselves,” he writes in an interpretive observe.)
Felipe leaves no floor untouched. Meta Language, 2022, a hypnotic acrylic-and-ink drawing of sigils in inexperienced, crimson, and black, archives a dream language; the symbols reappear alongside the gallery’s doors and baseboards and serve as as a type of non secular coverage. Along with the most commonly two-dimensional works, Felipe and his mom have painted the boxes of a number of small vegetation, meant to be cared for right through the display’s period. The artist’s interior international can’t be restrained: It’s alive, joyous, and rife with compassion.
