The Roonie Roon Show Magazine Mar 2025

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Spring March 2024 ISS# 2

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Documenting

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Culture Painted by Adel © 2024 The Roonie Roon Show. All rights reserved.

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WELCOME In honor of the human spirit and the importance of connection. Nostalgia is at the heart of my work, and these paintings are no exception.

My Retro Art is inspired by vintage aesthetics and the warmth of memory, my painting captures a moment that feels both familiar and surreal.

The soft glow of retro

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hues and the textured brushstrokes invite the viewer into a world where time stands still—where the past

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lingers just long enough to be

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savored.

bridge between eras—a reminder that art can transport us, evoke forgotten dreams, and re-imagine the

My creative process is

beauty of the past in a new

rooted in storytelling. I begin

light.I hope it sparks a sense

with a loose sketch, allowing

of wonder in you, too.

the

-Rosie Wick composition to take shape

organically. Layer by layer, color and emotion intertwine, building a piece that is as much about feeling as it is about form. This painting, like much of my work, is a

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Chnl.Art Dreamscapes of Desires: Between Fascination and Discipline Pg.14-19

Chnl.Info Interview W/ Mia Avila Pg.16-17

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SNEAKER SIGNAL

by Arrun Palacio

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Doc Talk: Dreamscapes of Desires

by Arrun Palacio

Episode 4 of the RoonieRoon show had me travel to San Francisco where I met up with painter Rosie Wick (Mia Avila) to discuss the topic of art.

Specifically, the elements and themes that appear in her paintings. With this production being my first travel shoot I was excited as well as nervous. Not only because of the difficulties of traveling with so much gear but to approach the topic of art. My reasoning is art has such a prestige and elitism which at times makes art feel unapproachable. With that in mind, I dived head first being guided by Mia Avila hoping not to drown under the sea of research notes I paddled through.

Finding the young painter's illustrations transformative having you reflect on the nostalgic atmosphere while evoking a change in maturity. At the heart of our conversation is Human Connection the glue that holds this episode together.

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“

Creating a Painting is A Meditative State”

Pictured here is painter RosieWick holding our inaugural issue.-by Arrun Palacio

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Dreamscapes of Desire: Between Fascination and Discipline

by Arrun Palacio

Mia Avila's brush commands desire as a landscape. Her work—intimate yet bold— invites viewers into a world beyond our own.

Her desires take shape in layers of oil and acrylic paint. Her paintings live at the intersection of nostalgia and modernity, where vintage television sets flicker in oil-painted stillness, and classical realism. As a full-time artist and art teacher from Oakland, California, Mia’s journey is one of passion,

Photograph of Rosie Wick by Arrun Palacio

defiance, and self-discovery. In a world where artistic pursuits are often met with skepticism, she carved her own path, turning childhood doodles into a fully realized career.

Painting, for Avila, is more than a medium—it is a means of selfexploration, a way to channel emotion into something tangible. In this conversation, she delves into her

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creative process, the allure of oil and acrylic, and the themes that haunt her canvas, shaping her signature aesthetic.

Love Sick, Rosie Wick, 2024 “A deeply rooted fear of losing what was never mine to begin with”

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“crea�ng art and taking an experience or an emo�on and visualizing it for other people to v connect to. a very medita�ve state”

The rich texture of Avila oil/acrylic paints enhance the sensuous qualities of her subjects.

Her work is imbued with a tangible softness, reminiscent of human skin, rendered with cloud-like qualities. Her canvas has an alluring sheen that evokes the nostalgia of a child's first time in a candy shop–a moment of wonder sparking fascination. The use of pastel hues hints at a transformation of nostalgia into an uncomfortable familiarity with Avila themes of intimacy, control, longing and liberation, passion and power. Leaving her audience suspended between fascination and the kind of unease that breeds a promise. Creating a tension that hints at the possibility of transformation or discovery.

Mia Avila explores this tension by delving into the vulnerable exchange of emotions, passions and dreams that drive intimacy, sensuality, romance, and companionship.

Avila's skillful control over her brushstrokes

Passionate Pixel, Mia Avila, 2024 From her collection “Passionate Currents” capturing vibrant emotions with a stunning color palette.

put her at the reins of this exploration.

In her Painting titled "Passionate Pixels," the artist Avila navigates the many color swatches of desire. With vibrant strokes of

This visual could suggest an invitation to

pink and powder blues, the artist portrays a

peer into the subject's dreamscape of desires,

striking image: a portrait of a male finely

possibly a portal, not merely projecting desires

dressed in a black suit with a striped tie

but inviting the viewer to step into the

culminating with a television atop his head

subject's private dreamscape.

depicting a provocative illustration of cherry red licking lips.

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What might we discover in this DREAMSCAPE? this realm, many desires coexist, Capturing the tension between fascination and responsibility of the unease in pursuing that connection. In her portrayal, Avila challenges us to recognize that desires, while natural and

Home at Last, Rosie Wick, 2024 “Our perspective on the world is shaped by our internal states of mind”

compelling, demand careful navigation. She clothed her illustration in traditional suit and tie attire, evoking a powerful symbol of

Through her swirling strokes and evocative

responsibility and discipline reflecting an

imagery, she invites us to examine the

individual's commitment to professionalism,

boundaries between intimacy and control,

structure, and the principles to balance desire

longing and liberation, passion and power.

with autonomy. Avila underscores the dangers

Fulfillment, she suggests lies between

of forgoing discipline in a pursuit where

Fascination and Discipline. Mia Avila's

surrendering autonomy can erode one sense of

paintings remind us that autonomy isn’t merely

responsibility.

the ability to choose but the responsibility to navigate the landscape of our desires without losing ourselves.

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INTERVIEW W/ MIA AVILA

by Arrun Palacio

H o s t : Hello, Mia Avila. Welcome to the Roonie Roon Show we're here to document and define everything culture. It's a pleasure for me having you with us today.

Q : Mia, if you could just give us some background information of who you are?

A : My name is Mia, and I am from Oakland, California. I was born and raised in the Bay Area, and I'm a full-time artist and art teacher.

Q : Where does art sit in your life?

A : I would say that art has been at the center of my life for as long as I probably can remember, ever since I was very young. And I believe the first time I realized that I wanted to become an artist and pursue it as a career, I was just about to enter high school. So I was probably about 14 or 15, and I realized, I want to be an artist.

Q : At that time, did you know what genre of art, what medium of art did you want to pursue, or did it all kind of fall into your lap?

A : I definitely stumbled, I would say, into the passion, I would say. At first, it was just, I love drawing. I would just be drawing all the time, filling all my notebooks with all sorts of doodles and sketches and all sorts of things. Straight A's in art classes in high school, and not putting as much effort into the other ones, but that's just because the passion was there. I would say it's been at the center of my life for quite a while, and in high school, as I started learning more and more about art, I realized that I loved animated movies, and that being a part of that, creating an animated movie, I thought that would be just amazing.

Q : What was your home life like, in regards of, was it walking of art? Was it discussed? Did you guys go out to museums, exhibits?

A : I think at first, especially when I was younger, my parents were very skeptical of me expressing that I wanted to become an artist, and that makes sense, simply because it's very difficult to become an artist, and it's a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication. My parents, no fault of their own, they had an expectation of me that they created in their own minds of what they wanted for me, and it was okay. When the day came that I expressed to them, like, hey, this is it. This is what I'm doing.

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