Elon Mars /  by Mirena Rhee

Part Japanese samurai warrior, part the prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry complete with a star and a flower still in the making, and part Paul on Arrakis. I was really tempted to give him blue eyes. As the only creature with blood vessels on Mars he carries the red pigment.

Elon Mars, 52 x 72 inches on paper.

Elon Mars, 52 x 72 inches on paper.

So we outlaw all kinds of white powders but not guns? Add to that 100,000 homeless kids in New York City alone and it all adds up /  by Mirena Rhee

Add to that people who on seeing expensive handbags on 5th avenue in New York City jump over homeless people lying on the streets, to get to the handbags. There was a woman lying on the sidewalk literally naked wrapped in a sheet and the shopping hordes were jumping over her to get to the stores.

And there is this supposed educated human being who hates poor people. Why do people go to university to only come out total sociopaths. What could you possibly have inside your chest to make you hate people without a home, people in need.

“https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1618422328937033728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”
— let's just hate people in need, cause I am educated, have a job and followers on twitter who just like me hate other people in need. Truth to be told I would totaly hate the victums of the earthquake too, just to be trending on twitter..

To speak the real truth we're all food for the worms, because when the time comes we will be so low and poor, the lowest of the lowest, our particles will be food for all kinds of critters, and every writhing bug will be our master.

So don't be too high on your horse cuz you're not even master of the things that you're made of.

What I want to do? What no one else does /  by Mirena Rhee

That one is very easy. I simply look at what everyone else is doing and avoid doing these things. I look for inspiration in things that are great and amplify that greatness in a way I find novel and inspiring.

I certainly am familiar with commercial art creativity and have no sympathy for it because it is not art. I know how art is done in commercial settings and it is impossible to have a singular vision imprinted on work done by many artists and producers and competing interests,

Sometimes there are glimpses of beauty in commercial art which soon enough get veiled over by commercial interests and prevailing opinions.

Often I pick a small idea and develop it gradually in a direction that I think leads to a more beautiful outcome. It is a mistake to not do beautiful work. Whenever I spot something beautiful I develop it in that direction and remove the flaws gradually.

Work has to make sense holistically and answer the Why? question well. Why this shape? Why this location or space? Why these colors and ultimately is the work saying something new to the world, in a beautiful way?

New York City, uninvestigation /  by Mirena Rhee

I'm a big investigator of New York City streets, they're very dense with culture and overflowing with humans and art.

Every square inch in New York City could potentially be covered with some sort of art or graffiti that combined produce an artistic result.

One day I was walking down the street and I looked up and I saw a bolted stop sign and on the back of the stop sign there was an entire caleidoscope of stickers and pictograms and graffiti that made a weird stop sign a painting.

I'm an investigator of signals.

This is why I love augmented reality because it is a contrived three-dimensional figment superimposed over a living and breathing organism.

Point your camera in any direction in New York City and you will find the combined wisdom of a street sign, buildings, street lights, graffiti, close-ups of stickers, sidewalk patterns, street markings, awnings decorated windows, shop signs, building details, traffic light posts and the clothes of people.