City Boys Ain’t Opps On Gawd
Gerasimos Floratos and Omari Douglin9.29.24 - 11.07.24
What’s a day in the life of a cityboy like?We chillin’.
If only you could move the buildings around the city, like this, the city would be yours.
For you and your boys to build an Empire State of mind.Taking pics of what catches the eye.
I’m the Architect cruising with da bomb bling swing. Blink, I’m chillin’, blink, I’m chillin’. I’m thinking about the city and the city is thinking about me.
Gotta hustle everyday to get it like me.
Putting in work like a motherfucker.
My only competition is me. Sometimes I gotta wear a mask, sometimes I don’t.There’s do’s and don’ts.Theres woos and wont’s.
My city, one sec, let me tell you.
If only you could move the buildings around the city, like this, the city would be yours.
For you and your boys to build an Empire State of mind.Taking pics of what catches the eye.
I’m the Architect cruising with da bomb bling swing. Blink, I’m chillin’, blink, I’m chillin’. I’m thinking about the city and the city is thinking about me.
Gotta hustle everyday to get it like me.
Putting in work like a motherfucker.
My only competition is me. Sometimes I gotta wear a mask, sometimes I don’t.There’s do’s and don’ts.Theres woos and wont’s.
My city, one sec, let me tell you.
You can’t be smiling too much. You might need to have the joints rolled, tote talk low lazy eye brain fried.
The city blinks and all of a sudden it’s sundown.
It’s brick now.
Did you get up with your people? Did you talk shit or talk shop?
Did you hit the studio?Always.
Walking in the city at night, I feel a warm light casting down from a street light.
A slice of heaven.
The streets are watching so I gotta perform.The thought hit me just like that.
I wanna blast some Biggie on these noise cancellation headphones.
I wanna go uptown for a sec just to walk. Get lost in between scenes.
Down an alley, I’m looking up. I’m rising becoming one with the sky.
Structural street smarts get you up, that’s fa sho.
On top orchestrating the bread, more money. The only substance I can abuse is the creative juice.
Streets need it.
The city blinks and all of a sudden it’s sundown.
It’s brick now.
Did you get up with your people? Did you talk shit or talk shop?
Did you hit the studio?Always.
Walking in the city at night, I feel a warm light casting down from a street light.
A slice of heaven.
The streets are watching so I gotta perform.The thought hit me just like that.
I wanna blast some Biggie on these noise cancellation headphones.
I wanna go uptown for a sec just to walk. Get lost in between scenes.
Down an alley, I’m looking up. I’m rising becoming one with the sky.
Structural street smarts get you up, that’s fa sho.
On top orchestrating the bread, more money. The only substance I can abuse is the creative juice.
Streets need it.
Swag’s the uniform. Never been on that that wackshit.
I gotta get fly just for a peace of mind. Nobody has these kicks.
I’ve become the master of object hood. City’s turned me to a headbussa.
On gawd the opps gotta go.
If you’re not with the realness, I don’t feel you.
The asphalt can’t trip me and the wind can’t blow me away. I
’m one with the current and I’ll survive because I’m rooted. Intrusive thoughts are the exclusive thoughts.
A lot of funny styles but they not like us.
I gotta get fly just for a peace of mind. Nobody has these kicks.
I’ve become the master of object hood. City’s turned me to a headbussa.
On gawd the opps gotta go.
If you’re not with the realness, I don’t feel you.
The asphalt can’t trip me and the wind can’t blow me away. I
’m one with the current and I’ll survive because I’m rooted. Intrusive thoughts are the exclusive thoughts.
A lot of funny styles but they not like us.
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Gerasimos Floratos
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Omari Douglin
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17.5 x 27.5 x 49 inches (cart).
Gerasimos Floratos
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Wood, clay, aluminum, glue, oil and acrylic.
8.5 x 8 x 16 inches (sculpture).
Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias.
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Gerasimos Floratos
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11 x 6 x 17inches (sculpture).
Omari Douglin
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Gerasimos Floratos
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Wood, clay, aluminum, glue, oil and acrylic.
11 x 6 x 17inches (sculpture).
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58 x 66 inches.
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Omari Douglin
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Gerasimos Floratos
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Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias.
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Omari Douglin
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Gerasimos Floratos
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Wood, ca clay, aluminum, glue, oil and acrylic.
10 x 10 x 16.75 inches (sculpture).
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Gerasimos Floratos and Omari Douglin
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57.25 x 66 inches.
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Gerasimos Floratos
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Wood, clay, aluminum, glue, oil and acrylic.
10 x 6 x 12.5 inches (sculpture).
Omari Douglin
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Wood, casters and acrylic.
23.5 x 23 x 53.25 inches (cart).
Gerasimos Floratos
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Wood, clay, aluminum, glue, oil and acrylic.
10 x 6 x 12.5 inches (sculpture).
Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias.
Omari DouglinTBT
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Acrylic and oil on linen.
43 x 60 inches.
Gerasimos Floratos
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Oil and acrylic on canvas.
48 x 60 inches.
Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias.
Documentation by Evan Walsh Photography.