The Unbroken Piece (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478153740)

Antoinette (Toni) Drago, displays a broadly diversified set of talents as a poet, painter, writer, musician, singer, songwriter, playwright, and professional actor. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has written and performed songs in movies and on television and is a member of BMI as well several arts associations. She often integrates these skills in entrancing mixed media expressions showcasing her creativity and love for the Arts and Sciences. With a profound ability to communicate through art subjectively and spiritually, Drago's wide-ranging interests in subjects as esoteric as the Renaissance and Theoretical Physics bloom in her paintings and poetic tributes to the power of science, the essential nature of spirit, humanity and philosophy. Drago has recently returned to her roots working as a professional singer, musician and painter in the resort beach community she had also enjoyed as a child in the Florida Panhandle. She spent more than 20 years in Los Angeles working steadily in the arts and as a freelance writer for newspaper and various other forms of media. She has been recognized for her "unbridled humor and joy" on the stage with a London-born Broadway director, by the Los Angeles Times, LA Daily News, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Major University Publications and many other media including a guest interview on NPR in 1992. Years later she would pick up a paintbrush again and receive media attention as an artist. Her work has been exhibited on both coasts and a 2009 solo art exhibit in Los Angeles featuring some of the visual material presented in this book displays her sense of the randomness and occasional cacophony of life amid the deeper abiding calm of spiritual waters. This sense of amalgamation, fluidity, continuity, and even an ethereal component, are often present either subtly or explosively in both her writing and painting. Her understanding of artistic freedom is attenuated in her thematic usage of flow and flight as metaphors for her non-conformist free spirit and hope and a future for humanity through the further interlaminations of science, soul, and time. Drago's work defies a fixed examination, and wanders through unexpected and unpredictable tracts.