Dakota Kim

Decoding Joema

The musical chameleon, from Slash to puppet shows.

JOEMCA IS a musical Rubix cube. Flip him one way, and he's a groupie-inducing rock star with a brooding onstage persona and a resoundingly deep voice set to catchy electronic beats. Flip him another, and he's a pensive, classically-trained violinist and pianist. Flip him yet again, and you'll find a composer of Chinese opera music who scored his own quirky music for puppet shows. No easy puzzle to solve, Joemca is a hybrid of his diverse artistic and personal influences, from Slash to Dylan Thomas, Jeff Buckley to Sam Cooke.

Decoding Joema

The musical chameleon, from Slash to puppet shows.

JOEMCA IS a musical Rubix cube. Flip him one way, and he's a groupie-inducing rock star with a brooding onstage persona and a resoundingly deep voice set to catchy electronic beats. Flip him another, and he's a pensive, classically-trained violinist and pianist. Flip him yet again, and you'll find a composer of Chinese opera music who scored his own quirky music for puppet shows. No easy puzzle to solve, Joemca is a hybrid of his diverse artistic and personal influences, from Slash to Dylan Thomas, Jeff Buckley to Sam Cooke.

Professor Clown

How Rob Lok is changing the face of buffoonery, one gag at a time.

Photographer Gregory Costanzo

RIDING A MOTORCYCLE on a steel high wire, leading workshops with Serbian and Albanian children, and performing his one-man show on the Cultural Revolution, Rob Lok is igniting his own revolution in the art of clowning.