My Miami: Typoe

The biggest strength every artist has is using their own life experiences to make their work. Typoe started making art with materials found laying around his room, putting them together with a special relationship to objects already in his life—rather than purchasing traditional supplies like brushes and paint.

In this profile, Typoe discusses his gunpowder paintings—a series about destruction, beauty, and life, using something made for destruction to create something beautiful.

The video captures a moment of community engagement: artists coming together at Jose Diego Middle School in Wynwood, which didn't have enough funds for an art teacher. A group of artists created murals and held an auction to help raise funds.

On Miami's creative scene: "Right now Miami is really exciting because there's this Renaissance happening. I call it the young Renaissance. They're accepting of new things coming in and new things happening, new culture. There's just so many collectors moving here and musicians and fashion world people. Everybody's working really hard to kind of bring Miami up. It's very new and it's very right now and it's very exciting."

Typoe also shares his Miami favorites—the Pérez Art Museum for its energy and architecture, O Cinema in Wynwood for underground films and documentaries, and Gigi's in Midtown for their daily rotating rice pudding flavors and tiny ice cream cones.

"My main hub will always be Miami and I'm definitely dedicated to staying here and working here. Very young, it's very now, it's what's happening. There's just a lot of movement and that's what I'm about."