Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book He worked as a brothel

He worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter

moving from photography to film to multimedia installation

the beating wings take on a majestic quality

Whiskey cocktail

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Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides book He worked as a brothelRawles transcendent, hyperrealistic paintings of Black bodies in water reckon with the legacy of racial injustice Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction and the cultural and historical symbolisms of water, Los Angelesbased artist Calida Rawles (born 1976) creates unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with bright, mysterious bodies of water. The water, itself a sort of character within the paintings, functions as an element