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Stephen Arboite Dreamscapes: The Metaphore Has Shifted to Healing

Stephen Arboite, Untitled, 2020, coffee, charcoal, mixed media collage on paper All images are courtesy of N'Namdi Contemporary, Miami.

By Heike Dempster

Oringal post Art Districts Magazine – Florida

With “Dreamscapes: The Metaphor Has Shifted to Healing,” artist Stephen Arboite presents a series of soulful and spiritual works focusing on a metamorphosic journey, inviting viewers along on an emotional and introspective path to self-discovery and healing.

The paintings are representative of the past 10 years of Arboite’s artistic practice and are as much rooted in the present. They are continuations of investigations he started to pursue while a student, when he first discovered coffee as a medium. Initially chosen based on a lack of resources, the coffee soon led the artist on a powerful journey to explore his Haitian heritage and various discourses on the Caribbean diaspora.

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