ART SHOW: ART & ALE @ THE TEMPE TAVERN, JULY 19TH

i will be showing select pieces from my new series of illustrations called HOME: INTERGALACTIC LANDSCAPES at the tempe tavern in tempe,az next week on july 19th. custom pieces from my jewelry line JUNKERJEWELS & my accessory line DOOMBLUMEN will be available for purchase as well, you can catch a preview of the illustrations & check out the wearables at: http://www.kafkavodkalovesyou.​com/ 

FB EVENT PAGE HERE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123627514391285

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FREE Group Art Show at TEMPE TAVERN on the North/East corner of McClintock and Apache in Tempe, AZ. Conveniently located across the street from Metro Bus and Light Rail stops.

Tuesday, July 19th at 8:00 PM

WHAT TO EXPECT: A diverse and highly talented group of local artist's, live music and/or DJ's, lavish libations, and a whole lot of inspiration!

::CONFIRMED ARTISTS::

BUNNY

CANO

DEBRA LEE MURROW

EDGAR CANO LEYVA

ERIKA JAYNES

GEOFF GILDNER

HEATHER EDGAR

JAMES B. HUNT

JAMESON LINGER

JEAN-PAUL MANZANARES

JULES DEMETRIUS

KAFKA ZVEZDANA VODKAA

MATT CRUX

RAY RIVAS

SAM NELSON

SEAN DAVID WRIGHT

SINCE DAY ONE

STEVE CABALLERO

TRACY PERDUE

::MUSIC::

CECILA SATORI - opening acoustic set.

DJ ALEX HINTZ 

DJ BRADLEY RODGERS

::INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION/VENDORS::

ELENA THORNTON - Arizona Consortium For the Arts.

KATIE DIGAN - hand made jewelry.

KERI MOSIER - hand made jewelry.

TAYLOR GRACE - Tarot readings, crafts.

pre-sent presents of the dream-reality-matrix

HOME SERIES, illustration number five // ELECTRIC OCTOSKY in progress.

full size on twitpic: http://twitpic.com/2js2j5

at the halfway mark, going for 10 in this series.

and a handful of deadly delights from my Junker Jewels and Doomblumen lines, should have pics of the first batch of bows up for sale in a few days but until then:

DOOMBLUMEN: Harmonic Convergence Hairpiece

DOOMBLUMEN: Madame Déficit Hairpiece

                                  

JUNKER JEWELS: 018 Karmic Absolution Necklace

jump on over to www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com to check out all the updates, new merchandise and purchasing information.

in other news, the Wunderkammer has been out on the road peddling enchanted wares, multidimensional curiosities, epic hair bows, tarot readings and more....here it is in action, lime green tent and all :)

stay gold, my hearts <3

love, kafka

boys and girls, boys and bows.

pretty monsters, beautiful creepers.

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STREET ART/installations.

Impact point, soul star: a splattering of interglactic tidalwaves & braindance sonatas

mmm, brains.....hungry yet? :p

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

now available on www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com

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MORE NEW NEW NEXT LEVEL SHIT!

WELL.

I've been keeping busy lately and I'm excited to tell you my new website is up at www.kafkavodkalovesyou.com!

Its part resetcouture/fashion work but also includes my new jewelry line JUNKER JEWELS, my new series of wearable toxic flowers DOOMBLUMEN (both are up for sale now too so head on over and pick up a gorgeous neon explosion of toxic blooms!)....plus lots of other fun things like drawings and illustrations. Soon enough I'll have even more epic madness which will include a shitload of raging electro tracks and videos for you filthy pretty things! But until then check out this teaser of one of my up and coming music projects:
Two previews of album artwork from my next level electro dj/performance duo project with my homeboy Spencer, who is also IDM artist Ersatz Modem. We're called ICONOPLASTIX and we make skanky filthy basslines. The end.

Preview #1: Ninjas vs. Velociraptors

Preview #2: Fluorescent Facades Slutty Money re-fix

Comin' straight at you from the dirty south, you can expect our demo and mixtapes to drop before the month is over. Your ears are safe until then!! 

Love/Light xoxo

-Kafka

New Jewelry and Accessory Lines: Junker Jewels & DOOMBLUMEN

Project 1: DOOMBLUMEN

This is my new accessory line.

Flowers of Doom: A series of wearable, perilous perennials from the apocalypse. 

Flowering toxicity with blossoms of circumstance and pockets full of paragons!

DOOMBLUMEN Groupshot

Nonpareil Paragon Pin

Junglechrome Syndromes Pin

Effloresce Medusae Hairclip

Currently available in two styles: Hair clip/Barrette and Pins.


Project 2: JUNKER JEWELS: A Meditation on Opportunity and Potential

This is my new jewelry line.

These pieces are made mostly from found objects. What began as making cute "junk necklaces" turned into so much more: a question on the nature of value, an elaborate meditation on mental illness and a dialogue on the emotional life of attachments. 

  

Counterclockwise from top:
Junker Jewels 011: Mystical Vertebra and Junker Jewels 010: Prophetic Capacitor with Earthbound Repeaters Hairclip from my accessory line DOOMBLUMEN

Junker Jewels 0 0 3: Medusa Labyrinth Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 8: Redemption Uninhibited Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 5: Mainframe, Multidimensionality Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 2: Release Current Necklace

Junker Jewels 0 0 1: Monarch Project

Hoarding is "a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire (and failure to use or discard) a significant amount of possessions, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary."

My mother is a hoarder. 

With every trip to her house over the past few years I began to collect bits and pieces of her "collections." Hoarders seem to create their own value systems, one where a rusty old paperclip or a beat up sweater have just as much value as objects socially accepted to be valuable. Discount outlets, thrift stores and television shopping channels are havens for compulsive purchasing; not because the items are actually needed but because they are on sale or a good deal.

I wanted to question this idea of "value" and how these alternative systems are created. Here I create my own system but one where the objects live up to their inherent "potential" (although subverted). Where is the line drawn between "usefulness" and "excessive"? I sought to question the nature of emotions and possessions: how a mother could deprive a daughter of natural emotional development but attribute emotional lives to objects otherwise incapable of experiencing them? When you grow up with mental illness, everything is backwards. There is no normal. My mother's ownership and possession issues have extended beyond a house full of stuff into a full blow other world built around the emotional lives of objects. Its a delicate dance between these worlds...and I ask you: Where's the line drawn between beauty and squalor? Treasure, trash, its all perspective. Where's yours?

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More photos and information on both lines can be found on my site: Junker Jewels Official

and 

DOOMBLUMEN Official

Love and light,

Kafka Vodka