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Mazzone, as it happens, comes from the streets. Homeless as a teen – family life had gotten a “little bit rough” – he took sleep were he could: downtown Grange Park; a Scarborough movie theatre; a subway train; a mall restroom, with his head on a toilet. The world of finance neither made him rich nor happy. He took up art – a long-abandoned fantasy of his as the son of an art-teacher mother. But as an adult trying his hand again at art, he was discouraged. Stick to business, friends and co-workers told him, something realistic.
Undeterred, Mazzone tried – and succeeded – with a style inspired by his mother, who worked in stained glass. He collects old newspapers, comic books and pop-culture ephemera, which he works into his intricate, eye-popping likenesses of everyone from George Washington to JFK, Audrey Hepburn to Frida Kahlo, Nat Turner to a mug shot of Mick Jagger. The mosaic snippets on their faces represent, in Mazzone’s words, “the stories of their lives.
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