I have had this realization for a while now but for me certain death is not being able to create and just throw things out there and mess with various mediums until something new hatches. I have had many instance in my life where I had to go by on $5 a day.. heck, I had done it for months at $2 a day ( hello dollar pizza ) - but I cannot imagine my world without the adventure of art. I can go on without food but without having to use my faculties and writhe my hands into drawings - I can't do.
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Vader Tesseract Video /
Vader Tesseract /
Vader Tesseract is a sculpture I made in Zbrush based on my recent encounter with three NYPD detectives who decided to visit one morning and encountered my vader drawings on the wall, and almost decided to buy one on the spot. No worries not in trouble myself but realized I indeed have a vader drawing on every wall, almost a Vader Tesseract.
10 Hours of Amazing Ocean | BBC Earth /
I am so scared of deep water, but this amazing, unadulterated, unscripted, untouched, unspoiled, uncontrived beauty really makes me want to overcome that and learn how to dive and snorkel. I am dreaming to snorkel the great barrier reef, soon!
The ArtTruck - coming to a Manhattan street soon /
The ArtTruck installation has long been in my head, even before the time I made my cross country drive between Florida and California, about 3000 miles which I used wisely, to think. TheArt truck is special in that it was originally inspired by the American trucking culture I have long been fascinated with. I meant it as a countryside version of an art installation, where a large truck makes frequent stops along highways - at truck stops and rest areas, and out of the cargo hold come art materials. Primed canvas is stretched over the truck and then a quick and impromptu painting happens with people that happen to be there.
To make it work in Manhattan I went to U-haul on 23rd street and took some measurements and decided to use a van for the first ArtTruck project. Then I found a 3d model of a similar cargo van online and draped /dressed it in primed canvas to visualize what wrapping it and then painting it might look like.
Darth Vader pen and ink drawing /
I am working on a couple of new animations both based on my life here in New York /
The first one is "Laundromat", based on a real-life story.
More dancing in new York city /
CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life /
I am taking this Harvard online course on cities. Which made me reflect on my life in New York and what New York has meant to me. I cannot imagine my life without New York city. Living in the city has taught me so much about the world, myself, and others.
If someone were to ask me what to do with their lives, I'd recommend living in New York for a few years. New York is the beast education you will ever be able to acquire in your lifetime. I have lived in Paris in London for short bursts but I assure you the special sauce that is New York can never be found anywhere else.
About this course
For the first time in human history, more than fifty percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Cities allow for the exchange of ideas, and generate remarkable innovations in business, art, and ideas. Cities are also home to millions living in poverty. Urban living can provide a pathway to a better life, but that’s not always the case for many people around the world.
CitiesX will give you a far-ranging look at the past, present and future of cities, with the aim of teaching you how to better understand, appreciate and improve urban areas. The course will explore key concepts of urban development by examining cities around the world, including London, Rio de Janeiro, New York City, Shanghai, Mumbai, Kigali, and many more.
The course includes a historical exploration of cities: how urban centers like ancient Rome resulted from consolidation of imperial power, how cities like Sao Paulo grew as important hotbeds of industry, and how cities like Seattle became hubs of technology and human capital.
CitiesX also dives into pressing social and urban planning issues like public health, transportation, zoning, gentrification, cost of living, crime, and congestion. The course includes interviews and insights from academics, policy makers, urban leaders and city residents.
The analytical framework of the course comes from economics, but is enhanced by conversations with experts from other disciplines (including Sociology, Urban Planning, Journalism, Anthropology, History, Art & Music) to provide learners with a greater understanding of all aspects of urbanism.
Support for CitiesX is generously provided by Tishman Speyer.
Cities on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcywB2dtNXGxWtExGIEMJkg
The cities course on edex:
https://www.edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x
Exhibition tonight /
Exhibition tonight Winter 2018 Grand Salon Show Tonight, February 23rd, 8 PM - 12 AM Greenpoint Gallery 390 McGuinness Blvd, Brooklyn, New York 11222
https://www.facebook.com/greenpointgallery/
23 x 29 inches, pen and ink, gold wash on hot press board, 2017. High resolution image: http://www.mirenarhee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/golden-vader-high-resolution-pen-and-ink-drawing-mirena-rhee.jpg
Vader is in a show tomorrow! /
Winter 2018 Grand Salon Show
Tomorrow, February 23rd, 8 PM - 12 AM
Greenpoint Gallery
390 McGuinness Blvd, Brooklyn, New York 11222
https://www.facebook.com/greenpointgallery/
23 x 29 inches, pen and ink, gold wash on hot press board, 2017. High resolution image: http://www.mirenarhee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/golden-vader-high-resolution-pen-and-ink-drawing-mirena-rhee.jpg
Charting Memory Replacement /
Today I discovered a beautiful poem by Walt Whitman and wanted to share it with you. Happy Sunday! /
MiraclesWalt Whitman, 1819 - 1892 Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love, Or sit at table at dinner with the rest, Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon, Or animals feeding in the fields, Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
To me the sea is a continual miracle, The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?
Hands Tree /
Memory Replacement World Trade Center - Sails /
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Incredible yet very underrated show curated by Ingvild Goetz on Arte Povera at Hauser & Wirth in New York /
https://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/3247/arte-povera-br-curated-by-ingvild-goetz/view/ “A lot of people in New York still don’t know much about Arte Povera,” she said at a talk at the gallery earlier this week. “That’s why it was so important to have the voices of the artists in the show too, to explain the work in their own way.” Printed quotations from them are sprinkled throughout the show.
Indeed one of the best shows I have seen in new York of recent. Beautifully crafted objects with thoughts. Bummed it is over but hope to see more soon!
under-recognized avant-garde moment
#ArtePovera
http://www.artnews.com/2017/09/14/one-crocodile-no-goldfish-collector-ingvild-goetz-on-an-arte-povera-extravaganza-at-hauser-wirth-in-new-york/