I am writing the Covid chapter of My Life in New York /October 8, 2026 by Mirena Rhee

On May 26th 2020 someone took a picture of me making my installation on Times Square and texted it to me.

Essays

NYC Garbage

I was kicked out of the Armory Show for making Art

All of my work in New York was about New York

I Identify with the Cosmos

Why Paintings are Beautiful

The Couch

What Is It to Have

Great Art vs. Bad Art

Death Entertainment (written April 22, 2020)

Giant Hands Installations 2018 - 2021 — Giant Hands Installations

Themes

Mark My Words

Turned off animations on my android phone - like time travel, saved years of my life watching spinning circles.

According to Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans - they were all mass murderers except for Cicero and Demosthenes, and not a single woman in there.

The corporate state apparatus obfuscates the individual through the generation of bonding and domestication rituals, labeling and enumeration.
The purpose of my installations and performance is to create art state machines that oppose and redirect the corporate state machine by creating spontaneous creative rituals.

The universe is the ultimate art-making machine and the ultimate art protocol.

Art is long form. Short form is decoration.

Hand Drawn Archimedean Solids

A series of Archimedean Solids pen and ink drawings, 8 x 11 inches, 2019

Featured

December 8, 2020

Hands Electric New York City

December 8, 2020

Digital Animation, dimensions variable, 2020

Watch high resolution video here:
https://www.mirenarhee.art/electric-nyc-animation-mirena-rhee.mp4

Hands New York City is a series of animations created during the Manhattan lockdown and inspired by New York City and its people.

With Hands Empire State Building. I have been watching the heart of New York City beat on top of the Empire State Building, I watched the moon rise over it.

A city electric and luminous with many people, we are all so different and we live in peace.

December 8, 2020

Memory Replacement World Trade Center Performance

Ingredients of a Subway CarPerformance and Installation with pen and Ink Drawings — Ingredients of a Subway Car

Ingredients of a Subway Car -Heterochromia

Ingredients of a Subway Car - animation and simulation with pen and ink drawings

Japanese Gardens: A Journey Into Zen Kindle Editionby Mirena Rhee (Author, Photographer and Poet) — Japanese Gardens: A Journey Into Zen Kindle Edition
by Mirena Rhee (Author, Photographer and Poet)

Books to read before you die. Imagine how incredible our lives are today - we can listen to the greatest minds of humankind in the bathroom

Leonardo da Vinciby Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL — Leonardo da Vinci
by **Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL**

Steve Jobsby Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL — Steve Jobs
**by Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL**

Einstein. His Life and Universeby Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL — Einstein. His Life and Universe
**by Walter Isaacson - borrow from NYPL**

The hero with a thousand facesby Joseph Campbell - borrow from the NYPL — The hero with a thousand faces
**by Joseph Campbell - borrow from the NYPL**

The Masters

Best of Humanity

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Songwriter: John Winston Lennon

The Best Websites on the Internet

Edge.org

To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

And my favorite question - but make sure to check out their last question as well:

WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN?

and

https://gutenberg.org/

Just books.

Mirena Rhee

Multiplanetary Artist

I am writing the Covid chapter of My Life in New York /October 8, 2026 by Mirena Rhee

Essays

Themes

Mark My Words

The Masters

Best of Humanity

The Best Websites on the Internet

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