ALdezyn and Usury of the Heart

ALdezyn is the pseudonym of Alain Laforestrie. He was born in the Bronx in '71 and moved to Queens at age four. Said ALdezyn, “Like most youngsters in those years we collected comic books, but I was more interested in more than just the action. Those drawn out super hero's were my fascination, so I traced out the characters and made up my own heroes.” He moved on to graffiti art, dropped in and out of “regular” college, and then attended the School of Visual Arts and is currently making the kind of art we see today.


This piece is called “Bathed in Red” and we’d usually get all literal and pair it with “Waiting Beds” but we’ve been to that well too many times, so let’s go to another sexy song, “Usury of the Heart.”



If you'd like to check out more of ALdezyn, go HERE: www.wix.com/aldezyn/aldezyn

Death takes a Halliday

Forgive the pun, but after posting several recently passed artists, we're happy to have something from the very much living David Halliday. We're mixing his "House en Hamme" with "Usury of the Heart." I don't know why. Maybe the cobblestone effect of his piece brings to mind the bounciness of Usury.





Says Halliday:

Hamme is a small town outside Antwerp in Belgium. I lived there for four years with my wife. We lived on a square. There was a church not more than 20 metres from our house. We had little money. On Saturday evenings we would open our living room window and listen to the organist in the church practice. He would play Bach on this huge pipe organ.

As far as art is concern, I liked a quote by Man Ray. He said,
“I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.”

Find more Halliday at http://eyesofh.wordpress.com/