GUN HILL ROSES - IMMORTAL FLOWERS

“ Gun Hill Road Roses - Our Immortal Growth “ A heavenly reminder “ We’re not the product of our environment, We’re the Growth of It “💐‼️

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We did something epic 🤓💐🌹🖤🔥‼️

This installation was made with the purpose & substance to lay down the ground foundation of the Immortal Flowers that represents us ALL 🌳🌼🌷

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As my main red rose 🌹 symbolizes the blood of our ancestors, our elders, peers & youth As a whole. That’s constantly outgrowing any force or being that threatens our soul. Because in the longevity We don’t Be(lie)ve, WE KNOW our truth. The fact that there’s so many beyond talented GENEISES in our hoods that if you can place them within any genre on life & we’ll suc(SEED) beyond imagination. Lightbeings who SHINES like that tends to get overshadowed by the constant focus on the negative thats cast over our hoods 🌘

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So in the spirit of it all I wanted & needed to add some real beauty & quality to my environment. Also to shed light in honor of our ancestors, the ones we lost here along the way too soon to see their true bloom, & to us geniuses that’s here & willing to forever keep GRO(WIN)G 🤞🏿🏆💐🖤

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Want to acknowledge the elders who came and saw the sun before me especially my mom & elders Madame HB & Eele , & all the amazing creators plus the ones in the wild styles era they put me on too ( in the 70s, 80s, 90s ) with pure quality artwork they only showed & expressed 🏆

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Uptown Love you know how we Grow

About BUM

Justin Gilzene (CLUB BUM ) residing from Gun Hill Rd in the Bronx, NY.

As a Contemporary Visual Artist, my style incorporate the use of Acrylic Paint in the building of textures & Hand crafted sculptures within my work. Pop Cultural & Historical references are some key visuals that are incorporated. As well as having a Culinary Arts degree & 8 years Teaching experience working as an Art teacher for Harlem Children Zone & ( The D.O.E) from teaching pre-k all the way to high school. I also mix in the science of culinary into the craft of my art.

I focus on the miseducation & the misconceptions within our culture & of our people ( individually/collectively ) dealing in the past, present, & future. With the purpose to help reconnect back what's been distorted beyond reality within our herstory/history.

The Re-memory & extensive studying of ancestral knowledge & information are all themes focused within my work.

The origin around my misconception Art style is about mastering the art of self control & detachment 💫 The textured distortion which I build up/sculpt with thick acrylic paint. Represents how much society distorts our love, intelligence, power, grace, dominance, elegance.. the list goes on. Even dealing with ourselves we go so many emotions & experiences and having to balance it all out. Nonetheless, throughout all of that we still remain intact within ourselves and culture and turn out beautifully.

I also incorporate my hand crafted acrylic roses that’s a key signature within my work. The red roses are mainly key because of the embodiment I put within it. The red flowers represents - the blood of our ancestors, no matter which generation or time we will forever blossom and outgrow anything within our soils.

The meaning behind my CLUB BUM is  every single one of us is a walking Billionaire Under Manifestation. When you take into account in how much we value ourselves individually and collectively as a whole.