Mars Rock Painting /  by Mirena Rhee

The funny thing is whenever I paint Mars I listen to history of ancient Egypt and the Sahara reminds me of Mars. So all the stories of Pharaohs and stuff gets mixed up with some Martian rocks in my head and landscapes.

Love Bill Nighy, often forget I really like this actor. And why why would I want to be judged by an algorithm? /  by Mirena Rhee

Why would I want to express myself in a limited number of characters, words, bits, picture ratios, lengths of videos, reels, stats likes, when digital presence it's not art.

Digital presence by itself is not art, Picasso and Dali are not on it.

I am gonna go door to door

I am working on a series of Augmented Reality pieces - a social commentary on Social Media, Crypto and NFT, the Digital Life. I am gonna start dropping Orange Men everywhere. I have the right to cause I have been living the Digital Life since 1995, and the deep end of it.

I also love Ancient Egypt and am enthralled about the stories of Pharaohs.. Harvard has an excellent course about it on edx. It’s free! One lesson you learn from me - if you wanna learn - learn from the best and not from youtube.

Free education, free information and free fucking blockchain. Why would I want to pay for blockchain?

Oh, so you want me to finance more chains? Chains and blockheads? Fuck chains.

Whenever I am in doubt about things - I quickly go to the Met Museum and visit the mummies and the astonishing artifacts of the Egyptian exhibition of things thousands of years old. And I ask the question - Would this mummy give a shit? If the mummy doesn’t - I don’t either.

Why NASA? Why Hand? /  by Mirena Rhee

Moon Hand - detail, 5 x 15 feet, acrylic on paper, 2022.

Why NASA?

I have a blind obsessive love for NASA, I can probably turn on them if they start secretly assassinating small children.

If I think of something cool, if I can think of the best thing in the world that's out there it's probably something that NASA does.

I love art and of course my entire being is devoted to it. But the first artist that had to leave that print on the wall of a cave, first had to figure out how to do it, they probably made a little tool to blow red ochre onto the wall to leave their hand print.
So the first artist was an engineer too and some of the great artists were also engineers like Leonardo and Michelangelo, and I too come from engineering background, architecture.

I come from a family of engineers and tinkerers. But also artists and architects.

To me form has a purpose, and meaning.

I guess I love the beauty of pure awesome engineering and get excited about the robots on Mars.

The funny thing is that one of my first toys when I was little was Lunohod, a remote controlled toy Russian lunar rover that had a really cool way of moving and was blinking and making a lot of noise.

If I remain brave when I get old I imagine I want to die on Mars. Have the red planet reflected in my dying pupils. The ultimate adventure.

But don't be too scared of that morbid paragraph because after all we're all trembling fields and all material things are just a shadow. Like Plato's Shadow on the wall.

Anyway NASA gets themselves into problems that no one else has and solves problems that no one can.

The kind of products and the kind of schemes NASA solves are just, impossible.

Moon Hand in Central Park, September 3rd, 2022

Why Hand?

Because from cave paintings to the famous Michelangelo fresco the hand is a symbol of our civilization. What marks humankind as special is that we are creative. We built our civilization by hand, including these impossible looking skinny skyscrapers in New York City.

Moon Hand, 5 x 15 feet, acrylic on paper, 2022.

Moon Hand, 5 x 15 feet, acrylic on paper, 2022.