Happy New Year, drinking my first coffee of the year on my fire escape, barefoot ! #happynewyear #happynewyear2019 #firstdayoftheyear #sun
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And Happy New Year from Memory Replacement !! Happy New year, thanks to ever amazing adventures and most of all people who helped me create - hope to be ever more unknowledgeable, ignorant and unsuspecting of things in 2019
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This is how I see the world - a radiant ball of consciousness, it is the ultimate artwork of the cosmos to create a blue and highly spirited planet.
Bulgarian style Christmas Eve in New York, 27 dishes my new home has a wonderful tree so I decided to dress the table
#home is where I am
Mirena Rhee, Hands of God - acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 inches A Giant Hands of God painting, It's a kind of a puzzle actually, a hand conversation.
I took a rhizomatic view of Michelangelo's hand of God, almost a Tesseract.
In other words nothing here is an accident and there are no 2 gestures the same color.
We hold the world in our hands, we can create we can destroy, it is only about the other side of the hand, the mind. The mind can gesture things into Oblivion or conjure miracles, especially today with the press of a button.
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Pushing paint around, it gives me the kind of adrenaline rush which is inexplicable. it's a natural high, a byproduct of producing single wavelength of color with your fingertips. I think Dali talked about this in the past that the high of making artwork is so intense that really can't be matched but taking any drugs - not that I've ever taken drugs it's just I feel intensity about anything in the world without any external means
Blue Planet 2, the out of this world documentary voiced by our favorite David Attenborough... which is surprisingly a show about our own world, can be had for ten bucks on youtube and honestly this is the best thing since they discovered that penguins can fly: .
Blue Planet can be watched here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsaqQmH6Sw&list=ELDiEnf4inTk2z-c3sGkD6vw
Penguins can’t fly. But they can get airborne. The secret technique that penguins use involves wrapping their bodies in a cloak of air bubbles – and it turns out to be the same technique that engineers use to speed the movement of ships and torpedoes through water from r/Awwducational
and george - I am usually wary when anyone is negative of America but you know what - sometimes a laugh is worth it.
We don't want to be replaced but we want to be changed.
The soft touch of a wing, The light touch of a brush and a light stroke. The word of a friend, the whisper of a soft fold on a wing. A nod to a future with beauty, a reflection on color and gesture of goodness and friendship. A soft stand against violence. We draw brushes and our holsters hold paints.
Happy Thanksgiving!! I am thankful for all of you who painted and for all of you who will paint on the 200x. I had a bit of a calm this thanksgiving to think and plan and as always reflect on what was and what is coming. One of the greatest insights I had in the Silicon Valley is that reproducible work, even work of the highest quality, diminishes in value very quickly. One of this things I wanted to do is work that is highly irreproducible. A mix of materials, quality, process, ideas, actions and results that may not be easily reproduced. Even work of ephemeral nature which requires a special set of circumstances rises in value owing to its rare nature. I am very grateful for that insight, as well as for being able to follow up on these ideas, and which I have been able to further with the graceful and generous participation from all of you. Thank you.
Memory Replacement - Roaming Installation and Performance with Public Participation at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York city. Making of Leftovers.
Memory Replacement - Roaming Installation and Performance with Public Participation at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York city - Final look of the Dress
x200 soon
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Memory Replacement Roaming Installation with Public Participation, Sunday, November 4th, at the World Trade Center site ! The best day of my life, I was humbled and touched !! Thank you! x200 soon
Visit the project's website here!
Thanks to Kenneth James for the incredible photographs and for being a great partner at the World Trade center site.
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I know in my heart that one day we will be among the stars, just the way we witness all the incredible miracles at the palms of our hands today and think, boy, how did Plato manage without a phone. Just kidding - he did just fine, it is not about the technology, it is about the people. I believe that violence takes so much of our focus and energy as species, it is almost like we carry a heavy sack of tumors on our backs. We spend so much time and resources on things like security, prisons, guns, fences, locks, .. and so little on building ourselves a better future.
It will take a set of very determined people to change everyone's mind, just like it took a lot to change our minds on all kinds of things like slavery, women's rights, gay rights, basic freedoms, democracy. It will not take a state but a person or several that will not stop until it is changed, I do not know if these people were born yet but it is coming. It will take for a strong person to say "enough" and turn humanity around.
I believe one day we will use the freed resources to spread among the stars, to travel further into unknown galaxies, to venture into black holes, to cross unfathomable distances and push unthinkable boundaries. It will be so much fun I think, and I have a good time contemplating that future - it will be so much fun to be among the stars with incredible machines and inventions that will keep us safe and traveling into far horizons, zipping among gas clouds and super novas, and swirling down wormholes into unexplored neighborhoods.
We will deserve this future once we outgrow our basic natures, once the enlightened politicians are born, once humanity realizes it is simply too costly to be violent.
I had such a punch in the stomach at Delacroix at #TheMet , I will be coming back many times, truly felt the super powers of art. Incredible one in a life time exhibition, and I have never been a Delacroix fan before. The most important thing an artist have to tend to in their career is their heart and soul.
Today is a windy day in New York city and i am not doing the installation I planned, it is going to be essentially kites blowing in the wind day. So it is back to basics day, i go over some ideas, i look into my favorite philosophers, art history and think about the ideas and the books and the work i will make.
Artwork is being wrongly described by medium – art is the heart and the soul of the artist coming through a medium.
Throughout history artists have been involved in some sort of shenanigans, whether happenings, parties, studio 54s and factories, down the rabbit holes, insane asylums, Pacific islands, ideas, ideologies, fights for freedoms and rights, there’s always some sort of writhing which always accompanies the gardening of the soul. Transcending reality just like escaping gravity, needs super power of some kind, a burst, a bomb, a will, and a lifetime of all of the above.
Here in this Delacroix self-portrait you can see said power for yourself.
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