✧ push picks #010 ✧
we are so excited to introduce multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator michael hambouz to our tenth edition of push picks! michael is a wonderful friend of push and participated in what was said to the rose, our collaboration with dominique gallery for other places art fair in 2020. please read on and feel enlightened by michael's thoughtful responses as our tenth feature in this series.
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michael's current project
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Wrapping up my first book project (Title TK), taking a close look at the past 10 years of my studio practice, featuring a forward by scholar and author of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings Kathryn Calley Galitz and and interview by artist and curator Courtney Childress; edited by Emily McElwreath. Coming this fall! Very excited!
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Palestine Children's Relief Fund. While all eyes are seemingly on the occupation/war in Ukraine at the moment, children in Palestine (Yemen, Syria, and Western Sahara too) continue suffering sans mainstream press attention, nor any corporate boycotts or unified sanctions and relief from Western nations in support of Palestine. It's important that we acknowledge and stand up for ALL oppressed, suffering, occupied/colonized, and displaced if we seriously want to see fair, equal change/progress globally. Honestly, there are a bazillion organizations that I could share that could use crucial funding, but PCRF is a start towards seeing immediate humanitarian support/results for a people receiving very little attention.
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michael's film of the week
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michael's song of the week
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Another tie: Surrender the Spirit- 'Hard Enough' (old band that I played live drums/toured with--enough time has passed that I've just recently revisited and am learning to appreciate all over again, with outsider ears, as if I hadn't been involved at all) and Corinna Repp- The Shore (met her years ago through friends, and at no point did it ever come up that she was an extraordinarily gifted singer/guitarist...just discovered now. Whole album and past albums are 110% magic).
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"Favorite" is perhaps less accurate than say "most-fascinating-to-me" flower- which is the Titan Arum (Amorphophallus Titanum) AKA the "corpse flower". Its behavior is unique and unpredictable...and its physical presence is mesmerizing to me, perhaps in the same way that I react when seeing a capybara or a giraffe--did nature really truly create this? Was it fabricated in the Jim Henson Workshop? Or did it drop from a portal in the sky to a prehistoric multiverse? Looks so beautifully unreal to me, and reminds me of just how special this world is and how much more I need to see in my lifetime. I was lucky enough to catch a moment of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's titan arum's elusive blooming in 2006. Time lapse video here.
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Damascus Bakery's pita (as a kid in rural Michigan, my father would mail order food from Brooklyn's Zahadi's and Damascus bakery to be able to have a taste of the food that he had grown up with in Palestine. There are fancier and more accessible pita options these days, but Damascus set the reliable, authentic standard for me--and still family-owned and going strong since 1930!
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and a few picks from push...
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be sure to preorder your copy of cake zine -- this edition promises to be extra tantalizing.
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colossal has a feature on ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko and her vibrant watercolor works from the past century.
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clothes as a form of protest
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NPR has a gorgeous multimedia story about how to find your personal style and how to break the rules of fashion after a winter trapped indoors.
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we hope you are soaking up the sun and that you enjoyed another installment of push picks. as always, if you like what you read, forward it to someone or encourage them to sign up. it would mean the world to us 🌎
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