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New York Said

The Philosophy of JoDo the Bee

A Conversation by Amon Focus

by Amon Focus
November 10, 2020
in Talking to Artists
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I first started this show with the mission to converse with folks expressing themselves in the street. Over the years I’ve managed to speak to a little bit of everybody in New York but I never lost sight of the original mission.

It took a minute but I tracked down JoDo to recorded an episode but with one caveat, they did not want their voice known so I had to modify it. Truth be told, I’ve been wanting to do an anonymous type of an episode for a few years now and I just recently figured out how to do it.

This episode was recorded back in March right before COVID smashed the city.

See you next week,

Amon

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Photo Provided by Jodo
Photo Provided by Jodo

 

Artist Biography

The JoDo bee is not a biological bee is a “Spiritual Bee” that connects and brings messages to the humans from “The Gods”. JoDo the bee is a communicator – a symbol of the power of psycho-geographical pollination in our environment.

Photo Provided by Jodo
Photo Provided by Jodo

Inspired in part by the artists time working within the Mayan communities in the jungles of Mexico near the ancient ruins of Coba. At Coba, the highest temple Nohoch Mul, was created as a shrine to communicate with the heavens the god of the temple is The Descending God or God of the Bees, that connects heavens and earth, a divine creature represented throughout ancient mythology, symbolic heraldry as seen in the work of Bernini in Vatican City, and most importantly the personal stories in the artist childhood that inspired the works of art.

Photo Provided by Jodo
Photo Provided by Jodo

Like art itself, JoDo searches for the instigation of the viewer to be trigger in thought and ideas. The Bee is the scream of the artist to exist, to be heard, to be inspire and inspire others. Each bee made is not the representation of the same one but it adds to the hive. Since its inception JoDo has created thousands of artworks around the world touching corners of cities like Moscow, St Petersburg, Asilah, Malaga, Cadiz, Ek Balam, Mexico City, Playa del Carmen, Miami and of course the center of the experiment and Mecca of Graffiti New York City.

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Photo Provided by Jodo

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Show Notes

  • Finding the local art
  • Creating a symbol
  • Observing the bigger picture
  • Vatican City
  • Making an Army
  • It’s a Bee Hive
  • The Communicator
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Art is Art
  • Performance Piece
  • Geographical Project
  • Lower East Side
  • Nobody Knows You
  • First 12 Bees
  • Family Crest
  • Gods and Humans
  • Hermes
  • Krink
  • Ink on Paper
  • Rules of Graffiti
  • Pops is Getting Up
  • Being Invisible
  • The Bee in Russia
  • Existentialist
  • Creator and Thinker
  • The Intention is Artistic
  • AKASIX
Photo Provided by Jodo
Photo Provided by Jodo

 

“JoDo the bee is a communicator – a symbol of the power of repetition. Every time the artist goes out and paints, it’s like a performance, a ritual intention that manifests into wings and eyes. Graffiti artists are the ones who wonder and wander by night, scrawling their symbols on the city walls.” – T.K. Mills

 

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Photo Provided by Jodo

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