Alleys & Ruins no. 153, Boom! (2020, Miami, FL, 8pm)
A short behind-the-scenes video is available here.
Alleys & Ruins no. 153, Boom! (2020, Miami, FL, 8pm)
I was in Florida doing an art show and scouting locations to shoot, when I found this amazing abandoned building on the outskirts of the Wynwood district in Miami. A couple graffitiartists, trek6 and ishmael, had turned it into a giant boombox! I knew light painting their work would make it glow and come to life in a beautful and different way.
The Wynwood neighborhood in Miami might be the coolest place to visit in the city - most of the buildings are covered with stunning murals. But its a bit of an island, surrounded by rough neighborhoods, so the location went from happy touristy, to sketchy very quickly as we worked into the night.Apparantly this building was painted as other boomboxes in the past. Scroll through the slideshow above to see them
The Alleys & Ruins series is a "masterpiece"
The New York Times
"Nuez scouts American cities for solitude and decrepitude [and] finds inspiration in derelict sites"
Washington Post
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