even a vegetarian circus has a clown /February 11, 2025 by Mirena Rhee

Said by me in a note to myself circa 2016

To the Stars!

Augmented Reality Art Installations

White Room Art Installation - I asked people to Paint Anything

Giant Hands Installations 2018 - 2022

My Favorite

My favorite artist of all time - Salvador Dali.

My favorite binge - kilo of bananas in one sitting.

My even more favorite binge - 2 kilos of apples in one sitting.

My favorite new word - blazar.

My favorite movie - Perfect Days.

My favorite production design for a recent movie - Dune 2.

My favorite production design for a recent series - Shogun.

My favorite recent series - Halo.

My favorite little TV show - A Cat's-Eye View of Japan.

My favorite sushi - Unagi hand roll.

My favorite art gallery - the New York City sidewalk.

My favorite way to drink coffee - in the morning with lots of milk and sugar.

My favorite elders book - Everyday Saints and Other Stories.

My favorite language that I do not speak - Japanese.

My favorite quote - The beautiful is as useful as the useful…Perhaps more so (Hugo).

My favorite egg-throwing targets - men with crowns.

My favorite delinquents - men throwing eggs at men with crowns.

My favorite random social place - the corner laundromat.

My favorite corner laundromat random question - is this your underwear?

My favorite line from a song - dynamite with a laser beam.

My favorite subreddit - r/whatstheword.

My favorite human right - free speech.

My favorite fact about the human body - 10 percent of our atoms are as old as the Universe.

My favorite weird feeling about the above fact - I feel it.

My favorite speculation about the above fact - we are older than the universe.

My favorite line from a book I read - since there is only one electron field, only one up quark field, and only one down quark field, you and I, dear reader, are connected to each other. Each of our atoms is a ripple in the same cosmic ocean. We are one with each other, and with all of creation (Harry Cliff).

My favorite obsession - space.

My favorite ability from science fiction - folding space.

My favorite rule - never optimize a part that shouldn’t exist in the first place (Elon Musk).

My favorite thought on return on investment - you have to estimate total cash generated from now to eternity, and discount it back to today (Buffett).

Favorite word pronunciation - basiliscine bas·i·lis·cine [bas-uh-lis-in].

My favorite meta place in NYC - the NYC subway.

My favorite quote from a movie director - I shoot my movie on paper before I even begin (Ridley Scott).

My favorite movie quote - Every weapon has a manual (The Fifth Element).

My favorite website - gutenberg.org.

My favorite NYC institution - NYPL.

My favorite place in NYC - Central Park.

My favorite US institution - NASA.

My favorite draftsman of all time - Leonardo da Vinci.

My favorite planet outside of Earth - Mars.

My favorite colors - Red, Blue and Yellow, Orange too.

My favorite period in history - The Renaissance.

My favorite Renaissance artist - Michelangelo.

My favorite city outside of New York City - Rome.

My favorite food - fish, salad, apples.

My favorite seaside - Costa Brava.

My favorite mythologist - Joseph Campbell.

My favorite dream of the future - interstellar travel.

My favorite science fiction writer - Arthur C Clarke.

My favorite painter from history - Rembrandt.

My favorite contemporary artists - Christo Yavashev and Jean Claude.

My favorite public appliance - water fountain.

My favorite philosopher - Henry David Thoreau.

My favorite activity outside of art - walking.

My favorite thing to do while walking - thinking.

My favorite movies person - David Attenborough.

My favorite contemporary scientist - Carl Sagan.

My favorite science fiction book not written by Arthur C Clarke - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

My favorite spaceship - Rama.

My favorite movie growing up - Star Wars.

My favorite obsession that I know nothing about - quantum physics.

My favorite contemporary non-fiction writer - Walter Isaacson.

My favorite aesthetics - Kyoto Zen Gardens.

My favorite crappy food in NYC - dollar pizza.

My favorite technologist - Elon Musk.

My favorite event in history - The French Revolution.

My favorite art making - drawing.

My favorite art style from history - Surrealism.

My favorite creative discipline I stalk on the internet other than cats - engineering.

My favorite subjects outside of art - science, astrophysics.

My favorite occupation other than artist - astronaut.

My favorite Egyptologist - Bob Brier.

My favorite countries from history - Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt.

My favorite comfort food - Korean food.

My favorite landmark in the US - Golden Gate Bridge.

My favorite road to drive in the US - Highway 1.

My favorite church - St Peters in Rome.

My favorite museums in the world - Vatican Museums, Uffizi.

My favorite house - Salvador Dali house in Port Ligat.

My favorite seaside town - Cadaqués.

My favorite planet with rings - Saturn.

My favorite thing to read and watch youtube videos about - space.

My favorite mystery - the multiverse, whether we are a simulation.

My favorite secret comfort - re-watching sci-fi and action movies.

My favorite bad behavior - pirating.

My favorite art medium - pen and ink.

My favorite physical activity - hiking in nature.

My favorite living things - trees.

My favorite idle activity - looking.

My favorite construction object - ladder.

My favorite commercial activity - construction.

My favorite machines - robots.

My favorite character from Star Wars - R2D2.

My favorite actor that never got an Oscar - R2D2.

My favorite vehicle from Star Wars - AT-AT.

My favorite joke - The Higgs boson walks into a church, and the priest says, “I’m sorry we don't allow particles in here.” And the Higgs says, “Good luck having mass without me.”

My favorite time of day to wake up is no longer 11 am.

My favorite season - summer.

My favorite fruit snack - bananas.

My favorite vehicles to ride - boats.

My favorite place to swim - shallow water.

My favorite place to watch the sunset in NYC - Chelsea Piers.

My favorite discussions where I am completely ignorant of the subject - philosophy.

My favorite underrated museum in NYC - Rubin Museum of Art, The Morgan Library.

My favorite way to kill my own food - fishing.

My favorite vegetable - tomato.

My favorite way to get to places - speed walking.

My favorite window shopping activity - trying perfume.

My favorite things to hate - handbags and diamonds.

My favorite thing in my room - the floor.

My favorite appliance - my mac.

My favorite video on youtube - Pale Blue Dot.

My favorite non-fiction book - The Power of Myth.

My favorite speculation - aliens.

My favorite documentaries - Baraka, Planet Earth series of BBC.

My favorite TV show growing up - Cosmos.

My favorite way to spend an evening - party.

My favorite party - gallery openings, art shows.

My favorite way to spend a day - in nature.

My favorite alcoholic drink - beer.

My favorite sport from the last Olympics - skateboarding.

My favorite ancient philosopher - Diogenes.

My favorite three-letter word - yes.

My favorite top three three-letter words - yes, you can.

My favorite adventure in NYC - people watching.

My favorite adventure I have been on - Camino de Santiago.

My favorite crappy outfit - worn out T-shirt.

My favorite outfit - my painted shoes.

My favorite ideologist of the 20th century - Buckminster Fuller.

My favorite idea by Buckminster Fuller - Spaceship Earth.

My favorite website on the internet that I donate to - is no longer Wikipedia.

My favorite stories to read - ancient mythology.

My favorite letter - The Letter from Chief Seattle to the President.

My favorite sci-fi short story - They’re Made Out of Meat.

My favorite superpower - teleportation.

My favorite kind of action movies - are no longer kung fu movies.

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.

All 12 Hands of Memory Replacement

Hands of Memory Replacement

Hand of Memory Replacement Election Day 2020 - 1

Hand of Memory Replacement Election Day 2020 - 2

Giant Hands Installations Book

Read my book on Art, Life and Video Games

2020 and My Covid Diary

My Covid Diary, 2020

Hand Drawn Archimedean solids

Hand Drawn Archimedean Solids

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

Hands Electric New York City

Featured

Dec 8, 2020

Electric New York City

Dec 8, 2020

Digital Video, dimensions variable, 2020

Animation about New York city created during the Manhattan Lockdown, inspired by New York City and its people.

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

Dec 8, 2020

Performance

Ingredients of a Subway Car

Animations and simulations with pen and ink drawings

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

Book I wrote -Japanese Gardens: A Journey into Zen

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)

Book to read before you die. Imagine how incredible our lives are today - you 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 Website 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:

Mirena Rhee

Multiplanetary Artist

even a vegetarian circus has a clown /February 11, 2025 by Mirena Rhee

To the Stars!

Augmented Reality Art Installations

White Room Art Installation - I asked people to Paint Anything

Giant Hands Installations 2018 - 2022

My Favorite

Mark My Words

All 12 Hands of Memory Replacement

Giant Hands Installations Book

Read my book on Art, Life and Video Games

2020 and My Covid Diary

Hand Drawn Archimedean solids

Hands Electric New York City

Performance

Ingredients of a Subway Car

Animations and simulations with pen and ink drawings

Book I wrote -Japanese Gardens: A Journey into Zen

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

The Masters

Best of Humanity

The Best Website on the Internet

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