“Weighted down by the duffle bags on my eyes, I’m up again at the crack of dawn. One leg in front of the other, I trolley myself to a place of communion. I pass the sturdy oak table, holding a spread of old, half-eaten food; empty fry boxes, damp cups of sticky Dr.Pepper, twice-folded take-out containers, and a structurally sound pyramid of noodles. Reaching out towards the espresso martini grain cabinets, I grab my striped apron freshly stained with grapes. Two knots above the hip will always do the trick. The stench of crisp, burnt oil still lingers from the nightcap, becoming stronger with every click of the gas stove. I should make something simple, I think to myself, placing a cast iron directly to the flame. Somewhere along the line, I lost the beauty of knowing exactly who I am.”
homegrown
organic Imports
homegrown organic imports marks ICONIC’s first collaboration with Shareon “Bhare” Blenman, a visual artist whose practice moves between traditional and digital mediums, writing, symbolism, and self-narrative. Drawing from his background in hospitality and his lifelong relationship to food, Bhare uses the kitchen as both subject and metaphor. Across the collection, fruit, figures, domestic space, handwritten fragments, and layered fields of color become vessels for memory, care, exhaustion, abundance, and cultural inheritance.
Comprising nine artworks, each released in an edition of five, homegrown organic imports explores food as a motif shaped by spirituality, identity, and consumerism. The series marks a return to the kitchen for Bhare, not simply as a place of preparation, but as a space of reflection and reclamation. Collectors of each digital work will have the opportunity to acquire a corresponding physical print, creating a direct relationship between the digital composition and its material form. Together, the works offer an intimate, textured meditation on home, hunger, heritage, and the rituals that help us remember who we are.
ABOUT
homegrown organic imports
I’ve always been a chef. The tireless planning, precision crafting, and whimsical plating of a dish whose memory seemingly lasts longer than a Polaroid. I made food to learn how to care for my body and claim ownership over my allergies. I aimed to heal a part of myself, constantly sinking into my chair, watching my schoolmates enjoy something as simple as a pizza party. Though as time passed by, the vigor I once felt slowly diminished in lieu of convenience. I dragged myself to the table, stuffing my face with whatever was the easiest to come by. I was consumed by the freedom of choice and the luxury of not being hungry. If I worked hard enough, I could just buy food. No more burn marks or endless prepping. No more love put into my meal.
Homegrown organic imports reinvigorated my culinary spirit, allowing me to explore aspects of food that currently shape my everyday. Food as motif with spirituality, identity, and consumerism. Those aren't three arbitrary subjects. There are some of the most loaded lenses a person carries in their life. For the first time, I embrace my culinary sensibilities in one of my favorite artistic mediums to date. After years of being a chef, I’ve returned to the kitchen, expanding my palette tenfold.
ABOUT
Shareon “Bhare” Blenman
Shareon “Bhare” Blenman paints from the places where memory gathers: the kitchen, the table, the body, the room. His works are assertive, emotionally crowded, and populated by a recurring cast of figures, symbols, written fragments, and bold geometric forms. Born in Queens, New York, in 1998 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bhare is a self-taught visual artist working across traditional and digital mediums. His compositions turn ordinary life into something stranger and more revealing, using color, line, language, and character to move through the highs and lows of daily existence. As a Black first-generation American actively investigating and championing his Barbadian ancestry, Bhare uses painting to cross-examine identity, belonging, inheritance, and what it means to exist between cultures. His paintings do not resolve those questions. They stay with them.
Bhare studied hospitality at Johnson & Wales University before committing fully to his self-taught visual practice, and his culinary background continues to shape how he thinks about composition, preparation, layering, and material instinct. In 2023, he completed In my snakeskin boots, I’m traveling west to Texas, a 40-foot commission installed at the Spectrum Center in Addison, Texas. In January 2024, Artnet spotlighted his solo exhibition Building a Happier Home at Colonna Contemporary, a body of 29 works tracing personal evolution, identity, and mental health, and named him among five standout artists to follow on its Gallery Network.
With homegrown organic Imports, his first collaborative release with ICONIC, Bhare brings his culinary practice explicitly into his art for the first time. Food operates here as three interlocking lenses: spirituality, identity, and consumerism. None of them are arbitrary. All of them are loaded. It is a return as much as a debut.
Digital + Physical Editions
Collectors of homegrown organic imports will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase a matching hand-signed and numbered print, rendered on museum-quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper.
Print Details
Paper: Museum-quality Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature & Edition: Signed and numbered by Shareon “Bhare” Blenman
Print Sizes:
Square: 18 x 24 in. / 45.72 × 45.72 cm.
Landscape: 18 x 24 in. / 45.72 × 60.9 cm.
Portrait: 24 x 24 in. / 60.9 × 60.9 cm.
Numbering: Your homegrown organic imports print edition will match your homegrown organic imports digital edition number
Print Claim Closes: June 27th, 2026
Following the NFT release, Iconic will open a print claim portal where collectors can purchase their matching hand-signed and numbered print. Print claims will close on June 27th, 2026.
Buyers are responsible for any applicable import duties or VAT on their print purchase. Please allow up to 10 weeks for your print to arrive.
homegrown organic imports by Bhare
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Release Date & Time
Wednesday, May 27th at 12PM EST
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Collection Size
9 unique artworks, each in an edition of 5
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Purchase Price
$650 USD (0.31 ETH)
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Print Price
$500 per print paid via ETH or credit card
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ICONIC Art Pass Holder Presale
May 25th to 27th
Available works
the commodification of service (Edition of 5)
spotlighted on oak (Edition of 5)
simple table games (Edition of 5)
the usher (Edition of 5)
overpriced fast food (Edition of 5)
price of imports (Edition of 5)
bread and welches (Edition of 5)
the luxury to not be hungry (Edition of 5)
fruit, tea and sugar cane (Edition of 5)
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