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Fabian Debora's "La Mas Fina" Chalk Walk Art 2012
Portrait
of Fabian Debora by Salvador
Rojas (Pasadena, CA June 2012)
TITLE: Artist Fabian "Spade" Debora
enters "La Mas Fina" in the 20th Annual Pasadena Chalk Festival
Fabian
"Spade" Debora, our eastside Michelangelo from Boyle Heights competed at the
20th Annual Pasadena Chalk Festival last weekend. It was his second year
participating in the event. The event supports The Light Bringer Project, a
Pasadena-based nonprofit organization whose mission is “to build community
through the power of the arts." His entry called "La Mas Fina" (The Finest One)
was featured on the front page of last Monday's edition of the Pasadena
Star-News.
The colorful chalk mural "La Mas Fina" is an inspiration from the
renaissance period Madonna, transformed into a modern Aztec goddess.
Interestingly, this Second Chance artist is from a part of the City where there
has been a renaissance "awakening" of new ideas and visions. I live in the zip
code next to Boyle Heights, close enough to see for myself the movement that has
produced world-famous graffiti artists and brewed prolific hip-hop camps. Big
Spade was a product of that environment, also; and sometimes was the one keeping
it going. Here he was in Pasadena with over 600 other artists (from all walks of
life) competing for top prizes in the largest art exhibit of its kind (over
100,000 visitors)! The Social Enterprise Clothing street team gave away 100 Join
the Movement shirts to the first visitors.
We only spoke briefly, but it was good to see Fabian out there with his
family- working on this chalk masterpiece and networking with his peers in the
art world. That's what it's all about. Soon, people will realize that he's a
world-class artist that happens to be Chicano (and proud of that fact). But in
no way are his works to be minimized into the Chicano Art category. Spade's art
is People Art. It's about life and the world we live in. Of course the artist's
spiritual nature reflects in his art; that's an universal principle. So that
other spiritually "aware" individuals could also connect with the deeper
paradigms on different levels. One thing is for certain, however, the beauty of
Mr. Debora's art could be appreciated by everyone. On what must have been a long
weekend for the Debora Family, out there showing support, and for myself (and my
son that accompanied me) it was a memorable Father's Day at the Pasadena Chalk
Art Festival 2O12.
FabianDebora.com - Official Site
Palabras por
ESkribe.Uno | Fotos por Salvador Rojas
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