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> >> THIS TIME ON BROAD & HIGH, A LOCAL ARTIST PULLS FROM HIS HERITAGE TO CREATE MODERN HIEROGLYPHICS.

REKNOWN CHILEEAN ARTIST COLLABORATES IN OHIO.

AND GO BEHIND THE SCENES FOR UNIQUE SAND SCULPTURES.

THIS AND MORE RIGHT NOW ON BROAD & HIGH.

> >> WELCOME TO BROAD & HIGH.

I'M YOUR HOST KATE QUICKEL.

PUBLIC ART HAS AN IMPACT LIKE ALMOST NO OTHER MEDIUM.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE MEET TWO ARTISTS WHO ARE MAKING CULTURE AND PERSONAL CONNECTIONS THROUGH THEIR ART PRACTICE.

IN OUR FIRST SEGMENT, WE TALK WITH COLUMBUS ARTIST ADAM HERNANDEZ WHO IS AN ARDENT PROPONENT OF THE LATINE ARTIST VOICE.

ADAM WHO IS BRONX BORN BUT NOW CALLS COLUMBUS HOME TALKED ABOUT CONNECTING AND ILLICIT EMOTIONS IN HIS WORK.

>> I DUBBED IT MODERN HIEROGLYPHICS WHERE I INCORPORATE MODERN TECHNIQUES.

MOST SPECIFICALLY, TECHNIQUES AND IMAGERY BORROWED FROM GRAFFITI.

I HAVE A KIND OF PHILOSOPHY AND GRAFFITI ARE ONE IN THE SAME.

LEAVING MESSAGES ON THE WALL.

HIEROGLYPHICS ARE IN MUSEUMS AND GRAFFITI, FOR SOME FOLKS, KIND OF LOOK DOWN ON IT.

BUT YOU KNOW, I JUST WOULD CHALLENGE THEM THAT WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

IT IS PEOPLE CREATING ART.

TELLING A MESSAGE.

ASKING FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER SOMETHING.

FOR ME, IT IS KIND OF DRAWING THE COMPARISON AND PARALLEL AND INTERPRETING THAT IN MY OWN WAY.

BORROWING FROM ANCIENT HIEROGLYPHICS AND BRINGING IT TO MODERN TIMES.

I LOVE TO USE BRIGHT COLORS.

THICK BOLD LINES.

THE 90s, I LOVE CARTOONS AND COMIC BOOKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO I THINK THAT IS KIND OF AN INFLUENCE DEFINITELY.

A BIG MOTIF IN MY WORK ARE THESE CHARACTERS I CALL GOD MASKS.

THEY ARE KIND OF INSPIRED BY A MASK YOU MIGHT SEE LIKE A SHAMAN OR SOMEBODY WEARING LIKE A CEREMONY.

THAT IS SOMETHING TRUE ACROSS SO MANY CULTURES THROUGH MOST OF RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY.

YOU KNOW, AS SOMEBODY WHO STRUGGLED WITH MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES, A LOT OF US DO IN LIFE.

KIND OF TO ME IT IS THESE MASKS, KIND OF CHANNELING THAT POWER FROM WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOR YOURSELF.

WHETHER IT IS FROM YOUR HERITAGE OR YOUR FAMILY.

OR FROM THE NATURE THAT SURROUNDS US.

FOR ME IT IS CHANNELING THAT ENERGY AND PUT MYSELF OUT THERE.

SO, AND THEN, AGAIN, BEING PUERTO RICAN, THERE IS A TRADITION OF MASK MAKING SPECIFICALLY CALLED VEJIGANTES WHICH IS INFLUENCED BY SPANISH AND AFRICAN ROOTS.

DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN ALL OF THOSE CULTURES CULMINATED IN PUERTO RICO.

MY PAINTINGS ARE INSPIRED BY THAT AND MORE RECENTLY I HAVE BEEN DABBLING IN MORE DIMENSIONAL MASK MAKING.

THIS IS A PRINT I MADE A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN I WAS VENDING AT FESTIVAL LATINO DOWNTOWN.

IT IS IN MY SIGNATURE STYLE YOU KNOW.

IT IS A GOD MASK INSPIRED BY ALL THE THINGS.

BUT YES.

THE SPECIAL THING ABOUT THIS IS THAT IF YOU SCAN IT AND IT AUGMENTED REALITY APP CALLED ART REVIVE IT COMES TO LIFE.

IT IS SOMETHING I HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

THIS IS THE FIRST ITERATION OF THAT.

NOW I HAVE A TOUR AROUND TOWN WHERE PEOPLE CAN SCAN SOME OF MY MURALS AND THERE'S LIKE A WHOLE IMMERSIVE GAME THAT INVOLVES AUGMENTED REALITY IN MY WORK.

INNATELY EVERY BODY IS DRAWN TO ART AND CREATION SO TO BE A PERSON WHO GETS TO THAT EXPERIENCE FOR PEOPLE I THINK IS LIKE A MAGICAL THING.

JUST THE FACT I GET TO MAKE THINGS AND SHARE IT WITH PEOPLE IS JUST VERY BASIC BUT IT IS A REALLY SPECIAL THING FOR ME.

>> TO SEE MORE, FIND HIM ONLINE AT AHERNANDEZART.

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> >> FOR CHILEAN ARTIST ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ, BETTER KNOWN AS MONO, ART HAS BEEN A LIFELONG JOURNEY.

HE BEGAN WITH STREET ART MORE THAN 60 YEARS AGO.

IN CHILE, HE SEES WALLS AS EMPTY CANVASS RIPE TO EXPRESS HIS POLITICAL VOICE.

HE SHARED WITH US THAT TO HIM, ART IS EVERYTHING.

[ SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH ] >> TO SEE MORE, FIND HIM ON INSTAGRAM AT MONOGONZALEZCHILE.

> >> NEXT, WE SEE THE REALTIME CREATION OF THE COMMUNITY MURAL THAT ADAM AND MONO FACILITATED AT BRIDGE PARK IN DUBLIN.

WHILE THEIR ART IS SIMILAR IN MANY ASPECTS, ADAM EXPLAINS THE SENSE OF URGENCY AND SPONTANEITY HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE IN MONO'S STYLE.

MONO SHARES THE IMPORTANCE OF SUCH CULTURAL EXCHANGES.

>> MONO AND I COLLABORATED ON A MURAL CUBE.

IT FEATURES, YOU KNOW, SOME SIGNATURE CHARACTERS FROM HIS BODY OF WORK AND SOME KIND OF MORE SIGNATURE WORKS FROM MINE.

OUR STYLES ARE PRETTY DIFFERENT BUT I STILL THINK THEY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER PRETTY WELL.

AND WE DIDN'T HAVE A REAL GAME PLAN UNTIL THE MORNING OF THAT WE ACTUALLY STARTED THE ACTUAL PAINTING OF THE PROJECT.

WE HAVE BEEN CORRESPONDENTS ONLINE AND STUFF.

BUT HIS KIND OF STYLE WAS A LOT MORE GO WITH THE FLOW, BE IN THE MOMENT.

WHICH I APPRECIATE THAT AND I TRY MY BEST.

AGAIN, IT IS A LITTLE BIT OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE BECAUSE A LOT OF MY STUFF, WHEN I DO SYMMETRICAL DESIGN STUFF IT IS REALLY PLANNED OUT AND SKETCHED SO TO BE SPONTANEOUS IT WAS LIKE GOT TO COME UP WITH IT ON THE SPOT.

THE COLLABORATION WITH MONO WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN HOW I NORMALLY WORK.

BECAUSE I NORMALLY WORK BY MYSELF GOING SOLO.

SO IT WAS DEFINITELY KIND OF PUSHED ME OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE.

NOT ONLY WAS I WORKING WITH HIM, BUT WE BROUGHT IN A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WELL.

WHICH IS REALLY COOL.

I THINK IT IS BECAUSE, IT IS EXTRA COOL.

SOMETHING I TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT I GET TO MAKE ART EVERY DAY AND MOST FOLKS DON'T.

SEEING HOW EXCITED THEY WERE, YEAH.

PICK A COLOR.

SOME HANG WITH US.

>> AND IT WAS KIND OF COOL ALSO BECAUSE WE BOTH DIFFERENTLY DEFINED WHAT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION WOULD BE.

LIKE, KIND OF EVEN JUST HOW WE LET FOLKS PICK THE COLORS FOR EITHER SIDE THEY WERE WORKING ON.

THAT SORT OF THING.

BUT IT WAS COOL.

AGAIN, I JUST KIND OF LEARNED.

HE WAS LIKE GETTING GO, LETTING PEOPLE DO THESE THINGS.

WE KEPT JOKING AROUND CALLING EACH OTHER MAESTRO WHICH IS BOSS.

CONDUCTING.

TO SEE THIS GUY WHO HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME.

IT WAS COOL TO HAVE THAT KIND OF CONFIDENCE TO LET GO.

BUT BE CONFIDENT WITH THE FINAL VISION WOULD BE.

SO BY THE END, LIKE, WHEN WE TIE IT TOGETHER AND CLEANED UP ALL THE LINES I THINK IT CAME OUT REALLY SWEET.

BIRDS ARE A MOTIF WE BOTH USE IN OUR WORK KIND OF DIFFERENTLY.

I CAN SPEAK TO MINE.

IT WAS KIND OF MY INTERPRETATION OF A GREAT BLUE HERON.

OBVIOUSLY, WE WERE RIGHT THERE BY THE RIVER WHICH HERONS ARE FREQUENT VERY OFTEN.

WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO OHIO, I HAD NEVER SEEN A HERON IN PERSON.

WHEN I SAW ONE, WHAT IS THIS HUGE THING?

TO WORK ON SOMETHING RIGHT BY THE RIVER, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A COOL THING TO FEATURE.

THE TREE HIS HERONS ARE COMING OUT OF, HE DESCRIBED IT AS A DROP OF WATER.

THE RING COMING OUT OF IT.

IT IS IN REFERENCE TO THE WATER AS WELL WHICH I THOUGHT WAS PRETTY NEAT.

AND THEN, THE OTHER CHARACTER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MINE IS KIND OF A GLYPH.

AND, THEY ARE KIND OF, THE GOD OF THE SUNSET.

FEATURING THAT GLYPH OF A SUNRISE.

KIND OF INCORPORATE OUR OWN VOICES INTO IT.

THERE'S A LOT OF COOL LITTLE MOMENTS WHERE WE JUST SHARED AND ALWAYS COOL TO MEET NEW FOLKS BUT THINGS THAT KIND OF STOOD OUT, TWO THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT.

BUT ONE WAS HE TRAVELS WITH HIS SON WHICH I'M A DAD, TOO.

BUT HE IS A GRANDFATHER SO HIS SON IS A LOT OLDER AND MY KIDS ARE ONLY FOUR AND ONE SO IT IS A COOL BEAUTIFUL THING.

I HOPE MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY KIDS CONTINUES TO GROW.

THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO TRAVEL AND MAKE ART WITH ME.

ANOTHER THING I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY COOL AND INTERESTING IS KIND OF HIS APPROACH TO MURALLISM AND PUBLIC ART IN GENERAL.

KIND OF HOW HE CREATED IT.

HE DESCRIBED MURALLISM IN CHILE FROM THE BOTTOM UP.

HERE IN THE STATE FROM THE TOP DOWN WHERE YOU ARE COMMISSIONED BY MUNICIPALITIES OR BUSINESSES.

THERE, THE PEOPLE IN THE STREET CREATE.

THAT IS FROM THE SITUATION OF THE WORLD HE GREW UP IN.

I THINK ESPECIALLY KIND OF IN THE DIGITAL AGE.

THOUGH WE ARE MORE CONNECTED, SOMETIMES WE ARE MORE ISOLATED, IT'S A FUNNY BALANCE.

BEING FORCED TO BE IN ANOTHER PHYSICAL SPACE WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND VERY SPECIAL.

I THINK MAYBE WE DON'T DO IT AS OFTEN AS WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US YOU KNOW.

SO, YEAH.

SO IT IS JUST IMPORTANT IN THAT.

IT ALSO JUST CAN BE AN EXAMPLE.

THE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAVE DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS CAN COME TOGETHER AND CREATE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER.

SO YEAH.

THAT IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT.

>> TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS MULE CUBE PROJECT, CHECK OUT DUB LISTENARTS.

ORG/MONOGONZALEZ.

> >> LAKE COUNTY IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE OF LAKE ERIE.

IT'S TOURISM BUREAU WANTED TO BRING ART OUT INTO THE OPEN AND FOUND THE PERFECT WAY TO DO IT.

PROFESSIONAL SAND SCULPTOR CARL JARA TOOK TO THE BEACHES CREATING FOUR INCREDIBLE WORKS THAT HAD VISITORS STOPPING IN THEIR TRACKS.

WE GO BEHIND THE SCENES TO SEE HOW THIS PROJECT TRANSFORMED PARTS OF THE SHORELINE INTO OPEN-AIR ART GALLERIES.

>> I HATE THIS MATERIAL.

I HATE SAND.

I HATE IT WITH A PASSION.

IT GETS IN ALL OF YOUR EQUIPMENT.

IT GET INS YOUR CLOTHES AND HOUSE AND YOUR CAR.

IT IS EVERYWHERE.

IT IS AN OBNOXIOUS MATERIAL.

BUT FOR AN ARTISTIC MEDIUM?

MAN, YOU CAN'T BEAT IT.

I AM A COMPETITIVE SCULPTOR.

I HAVE BEEN COMPETING IN MASTER LEVEL EVENTS SINCE 1997.

NOW I HAVE THIS BURNING THING I HAVE TO JUST GET OFF MY CHEST.

SO, I WILL MAKE PEACE.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

WHAT I STRIVE FOR WITH WHAT I DO IN SAND SCULPTURE IS ESPECIALLY IF I'M DOING A CONTEST PIECE OR SOMETHING RELATED TO WHERE IT IS NOT A COMMERCIAL PIECE SPECIFICALLY, I REALLY TRY TO JUST DESCRIBE THE WORLD AROUND ME.

THERE ARE A LOT OF TIMES YOU GO BACK THROUGH MY PORTFOLIO, YOU COULD PINPOINT THE EXACT MOMENT IN TIME THOSE THINGS OCCURRED BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO DESCRIBE IN A FASHION THE WORLD WITHOUT IT BEING TOO BLATANT AND TOO RAW.

NOT TRYING TO GIVE THE NEW, BUT JUST AN IMPRESSION OF WHAT'S GOING ON.

THAT IS WHAT I STRIVE FOR IN MY WORK.

WITH THE COMMERCIAL WORK I WILL GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.

YOU ARE PAYING FOR SCULPTURE.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR.

THE LAKE COUNTY SAND SCULPTURE TRAIL IS KIND OF A COOL IDEA THAT THE LAKE COUNTY TOURISM BUREAU HAD.

THEY WANTED TO INTRODUCE PUBLIC ART.

I WENT INTO THEIR COMMUNITY.

THEY REALLY ARE INVESTING IN THIS IDEA OF PUTTING AN ARTIST OUT WORKING, TALKING, PEOPLE CAN WATCH.

SO WE DEVELOPED THIS IDEA OF THE TRAIL.

AND, IT IS JUST A SERIES OF FOUR PIECES ALL THE WAY ALONG THE COAST OF LAKE ERIE AND LAKE COUNTY.

OSBORNE PARK OUT IN WILLOWBY IN THE FAR WESTERN END OF LAKE COUNTY.

AND THEN, HEADLAND'S BEACH STATE PARK IN THE MIDDLE, SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST OF THAT.

AND ALL THE WAY OUT ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF LAKE COUNTY IS MADISON TOWNSHIP PARK.

FOR THE FIRST THREE PIECES I DID, I REALLY WANTED THE PIECES TO RELATE TO THEIR GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS.

OSBORNE PARK, SORT OF A CELEBRATION OF THE FUTURE OSBORNE BEACH.

THEY ARE PLANNING ON BUILDING A BREAK WATER AND A PIER AND THAT WILL BUILD THE BEACH FOR THEM NATURALLY.

I INCORPORATED THAT INTO A POSTCARD WITH THE FUTURE CHILDREN PLAYING AT THE FUTURE OSBORNE BEACH.

THE PIECE AT MADISON TOWNSHIP IS MORE ABOUT THE LOCATION.

IN THAT AREA YOU HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATIONS OF WINERIES IN OHIO.

SO WE ARE JUST KIND OF CELEBRATING THAT FACT.

OSBORNE IS VERY QUIET AND INTIMATE.

YOU HAVE TO GET UP AND LOOK AT IT AND MADISON IS THIS HUGE THING THAT YOU ALMOST CAN'T STEP AWAY FAR ENOUGH TO SEE.

THE THIRD PIECE AT FAIRPORT HARBOR WAS REALLY MORE ABOUT KIND OF CELEBRATING THE IDEA OF THE LIGHTHOUSES AND THE LAKE ERIE MONSTER.

THEY HAVE TWO LIGHTHOUSES IN THE AREA.

AND IT WOULD BE FUN TO PLAY WITH THE LIGHTHOUSE.

I FIND ARCHITECTURE TO BE A LITTLE STIFF ON ITS OWN.

I THOUGHT I WOULD ADD IN THE LAKE ERIE MONSTER TO GO WITH IT TO TIE IN WITH LOCAL LORE AND LEGEND.

NOW, WHAT I'M DOING HERE AT HEADLAND IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANIMAL.

SOMETHING MORE MEANINGFUL TO ME.

ABOUT THE CURRENT TIMES THAT WE LIVE IN.

SO HAVING GOOD MATERIAL IS ABSOLUTELY FIRST AND FOREMOST THING.

HAVING GOOD SAND TO WORK WITH.

SAND SCULPTORS CAN WORK WITH ANY SAND.

WE PRIDE OURSELVES IN THAT.

BUT I HAVE BIT MY TONGUE A FEW TIMES.

I HAD SUCH BAD SAND THREE INCHES HIGH.

IT COULDN'T GET ANY HIGHER THAN THAT.

THE SAND HERE IS ROCKY AND ROUND.

YOU WILL FIND THAT ON ALMOST ANY BEACH.

YOU WILL GET ROCKY ROUND PARTICLES.

SO THE SAND I USE HERE IS A GLACIAL TILL.

IT IS A VERY, VERY SHARP, VERY FINE GRAIN.

ALMOST CRYSTAL IN STRUCTURE.

IT IS NOT ROUNDED OFF.

AS A RESULT, THE PARTICLES CLING MORE LIKE VELCRO.

THEY WILL JAM TOGETHER AND SAY THAT WAY.

SO WHEN THE WATER EVAPORATES I'M LEFT WITH A MATRIX OF MATERIAL, NOT A BUNCH OF FAILING BONDS.

I THINK TOMORROW I BRING AN EXTRA LENGTH OF HOSE.

WE A LITTLE TIGHT ON THE HOSE TODAY.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE AN OVAL.

BUT I WANT TO MAKE AN OVAL THAT WILL EAT UP ABOUT A QUARTER OF THIS PILE SO I'M MENTALLY GOING THROUGH IN MY HEAD AND I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT SIZE.

AND THINKING ABOUT THE THREE SCULPTURES I JUST FINISHED UP BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SAMOSAS.

THOUGH I HAVE DONE THIS FOR 34 YEARS THIS IS THE PART I AM MOST LIKELY TO SCREW UP.

I DON'T CARRY A LOT OF TOOLS.

THE GUY WHO TAUGHT ME CARRIED AN ENORMOUS BAG OF TOOLS.

I REALIZED QUICKLY I DIDN'T NEED AN ENORMOUS BAG OF TOOL TO DO THIS.

I HAVE A COUPLE OF THESE SMALL TROWELS THAT HAVE WORN DOWN OVER THE YEARS.

THAT/REALLY NICE FOR ALL OF YOUR LITTLE DETAIL WORK.

I HAVE LARGER TROWELS TO DO LARGER CUTS.

I WILL WORK WITH A SHOVEL IF I NEED BIGGER CUTS.

IF I'M DOING REALLY TINY THINGS I HAVE JUST A SINGLE TOOL OR TWO FOR REALLY TINY DETAIL WORK.

I FIGURE IF I HAVE MORE TOOLS THAN I CAN HOLD IN ONE HAND, I GOT TOO MANY TOOLS AND THE FEWER TOOLS I HAVE, THE FEWER TOOLS THERE ARE TO LEAVE IN THE PILE.

OKAY.

I THINK WE ARE READY TO GET OFF THIS PILE THERE WE GO.

A MAGIC MOMENT.

THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT'S LIKE, I HAVE TO WALK AWAY FROM AN AREA IF IT'S NOT WORKING.

AND THERE IS ALWAYS A MILLION OTHER PLACES TO STEP ONTO AND WORK.

PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY OH YOU WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN TO BRING ALONG ON VACATION.

NO I WOULDN'T.

I DON'T LIKE GOING TO BEACHES.

I WILL GO TO THE MOUNTAIN, STREAMS, TREES, I'LL GO FIND SOME SHADE.

ANYWHERE THAT HAS NO SAND IS GOOD FOR ME.

>> TO SEE MORE OF HIS WORK, CHECK HIM OUT ONLINE AT ARTCLEVELAND.

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FOR ALL OF US HERE AT WOSU, I'M KATE QUICKEL.

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

[ MUSIC ] > >> PRODUCTION FOR BROAD & HIGH IS FUNDED IN PART BY THE GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL.

CELEBRATING EXPRESSION, FOSTERING TALENT, AND CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY TO COLUMBUS ARTISTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITION, CONCERTS, PUBLIC ART, AND MORE AT COLUMBUSMAKESART.COM.