love.live.life.proceed.progress
Charles Browning, Blackface, 2005, oil on canvas, 30” x 24”
FROM NOAH “40” SHEBIB’S NEW FADER FEATURE:
“At the time, Drake was living partially at Shebib’s bedroom studio. ‘I would be there every night and I hated going home,’ he says. ‘I was deep in debt with my family. We were fighting every night. I had spent a lot of money at trying to succeed at music with these poppy songs like ‘Replacement Girl.’ Trying to be famous and trying to do it with a hit. I remember I had this vicious fight with my uncle on 40’s balcony. I had never said such cruel things to anybody; I had never had such cruel things said to me, especially by a family member. 40 could tell I just needed to say something about it. He made me this beat. I wrote the first verse in his bedroom, which is where we used to work. He gave me an opportunity to vent about my serious family situations. That was a definitive moment in my career. That was the first time I had ever said anything like that.’” [READ MORE]
Sebastiaan Bremer / Schoener Goetterfunken I, ‘A loving father must dwell’ (Muss ein leiber Vater wohnen), 2010 / unique hand-painted chromogenic print with mixed media / 10 x 10 inches
Exhibition Ultrasonic VI : Appropriate, Sep 10 – Oct 22, 2011 at Mark Moore Gallery




