Here’s two beautiful pieces from one San Francisco’s talented young artists on the rise Matthew Palladino.
… growing up in The City, you see a bright red bandanna and you think Norteno. So I painted this kid with corn rose I had seen a couple weeks previous from memory. I was also obsessed with covering faces in sweat and tears and saliva. So I added that. And I’m looking at it, and see it makes a perfect half heart, just by chance in the way I painted the profile and the placement of the bandanna over his mouth. So, of course, I have to complete the heart, right? So I repainted the image and made them black, a crip and a blood, and for the sake of visuals I made the other face the exact same, with the exact same placement of sweat and tears. And suddenly it was this powerful but mysterious image, like a new symbol. Like a contemporary Romeo and Juliet. But more like Romeo and Romeo….
-Matthew Palladino via Fecal Face
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