#aliajhane

Photo recap from June's 2nd Friday in the Chicago Arts District at elee.mosynary gallery. Words and photos by ELEE X.

20 year old Hyde Park native, Alia Jhane, was our featured artist. Alia exemplifies what the elee.mosynary gallery is all about; she's both a self-taught, multi-disciplined artist and teaching artist; she's an entrepreneur, community oriented, a seeker of enlightenment and protector of peace.

Her work reveals a deep spiritual connection with the universe and interest in sexuality, culture, and youth. Alia shamelessly bares it all in her art, whether it be with her raw multimedia aids or under the alias of Idiomatic as a versatile storytelling femcee and poet.

She is also the founder of SoulFree, a developing community initiative that currently hosts an open mic, peace circle and psychedelic party for the youth.

You will be able to follow her evolution with us, as she will be partnering with the elee.mosynary gallery in the future.

For more information on the artist, visit her sites:

This is my homie, Supah. I'm really proud of him. When he first told me that he was making music, I was like- WHAT? LET ME HEAR! and he was really dope. Im glad that he is digging deep into it as well. This song was also on the radio- which is really important because the radio play a lot of negative songs.

Something Spiritual talks about the special sexual connection between a woman and man. As you know, most songs that play on the radio or period are about lustful sex, male superiority, and degrading women. This song is different because it's not only appealing to the sound that people like but, the chakra connection based on sexual intercourse which the majority of people don't know about (when you have intercourse you're giving your whole energy that is interacting with the other person's spirit and they collide into one), also speaks about generations progress on religion, spirituality, metaphysics, and emotional intelligence.