Precious metal at ShockBoxx in Hermosa
Heart of gold Christina Smith’s solo show “Integrated” opens Saturday at ShockBoxx by Bondo Wyszpolski Traumatic events can change a person for the worse and push them into a hole from which they may never emerge. But if a traumatic experience leads one to delve into the essence of who they are, and to explore their self-worth as a human being, the end result may be both self-knowledge and inner strength, not to mention hard-earned wisdom instead of endless self-torment and shame. Or, as boiled down by Nietzsche, What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Which brings us to a young artist named Christina Smith who has confronted her demons and now is more centered for having done so. Her personal story underlies an exhibition called “Integrated” (better understood as “disIntegrated”) that opens Saturday at ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beach. Smith is quite uncomfortable about sharing it, but the need to do so overrides that. As I tell her during the course of our conversation, she’s a courageous person. Most people would bury and then shy away from revealing their hurtful, intimate stories, but fortunately in the present era women (and yes, men, too) are speaking freely and frankly in the…
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