by Charles WSIR Johnson
August 15- October 30
Rhythm & Blues Gallery
Opening Reception , September 18, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

“I try to be music not just play it”…Wsir Johnson An exhibition of art that makes music and music that makes art.

The organic elements: earth, water, fire and air has been a passion for my creativity. Each completed creation is two art forms: visual and resonance. Building unique earthen hands drums, Bamboo Fula flutes and ceram-a-Saxophones (out of earth) is a lifestyle passion. I design, create and play, what I conceive, whether around forests, on stage or recording for film, working with nature’s elements is more than a notion; it is a testament in world harmony and peace. Blending African Diaspora Interdisciplinary design with a modern presence, is my fine ART……

Each creation is hand built: one coil, one slab and one thought at a time, using various earthenware base materials. Ceramos hand building gives me the improvised freedom to move in an organic, holistic, unpredictable art expression. Comparable to the most provocative, and innovative improvisational world jazz. Hand building, by means of “earth” and contemporary techniques, gives me a spiritual and cosmological cultural connection, my ancestors practiced many centuries ago on the continent called “Africa”. – Charles WSIR Johnson