Services 2 — WACsmash: The Third

CYCLES

Creator: Simon Chernow

Collaborators: Bishop Freeman (Vocals)

Medium: Film Photography, Videography, and Original Music Composition

INSPIRATION

So much of our identities can be traced back to our environment and ancestry. I have witnessed first hand how hard it can be to break from the cycles that run through our families and how easy it is to repeat them. This piece juxtaposes the nuances, challenges, and complexities of family cycles with the functionality and mechanics of a bicycle by using it as a vessel to think about how identities, traditions, and trauma travel through us.

Bio.

Simon Chernow is a Jewish American artist that uses different mediums of art such as dance, music, and photography to tell stories. Born and raised in Boston, MA, his identity has been heavily influenced by the environment and culture that he grew up in. Simon strives to create outside of the binary and believes that it is necessary to connect everything that he makes to the societal context that surrounds us.

We would like to acknowledge the Tongva peoples as the traditional caretakers of the land UCLA stands on. We are grateful and pay our due respects to ancestors, elders, and relatives past, present, and emerging.