Today and Yesterday /  by Mirena Rhee

I made an eye contact with a homeless woman who was sitting in front of the Apple store. In the evening I sat down to eat pizza on a bench and saw a man enjoying the spring bloom shower from a tree.

I have visions of future Mars paintings.

The Corporate Fascist State or CFS is enforcing NPC compliance worldwide. The Global Corporate Fascist State or GCFS has ordered all artists, under the threat of hanging(or rather never-hanging in a gallery), to make AI related art. They're barred from ever touching materials or enjoying gravity.

I decided to make peace with myself and the fact that my atoms will be back to the universe one day. I'm going to enjoy the collective results of these atoms and will pursue actions in the immediate vicinity surrounding my particles. I don't want the Corporate Fascist State to dictate the flow of my particles. I don't want to vibrate to the drum of the blue screen. I will build around me an airgap to isolate myself from the thump.

Elon Mars, a painting to celebrate Starship Launch /  by Mirena Rhee

Elon Mars, 52 x 73.5 inches, acrylic and Japanese ink on Fabriano paper.

This painting is about a hero's journey. In it good battles evil and thought battles gravity.

The hero is a composite picture, part the prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's tale - with a star and a stone flower, part Paul on Arrakis, part Japanese samurai.

There's Darth Vader in it and a cascading Martian landscape in the background, and a couple of ziggurats fight eternity.

This is a cartoon for an oil painting, a detailed version of the oil painting on paper.

I realized the silliness of comments on the internet, reviews likes and such when I found Salvador Dali's book had 3.5 stars on Goodreads or something, what is good reads? /  by Mirena Rhee

At the same time when I visited Figueres there were literally thousands of people lining up day and night to visit his theater and museum. Internet is all lies, the question is who stands to benefit? That's why I'm back to reading books and only believe the internet when I check the weather.

Want to be Salvador Dali in Space /  by Mirena Rhee

Salvador Dali famously had dreams of his paintings. Mine emerge when I take long walks. At first they are very fuzzy but as I continue walking over days and months they crystallize and then I have to do it.

Had to disable the comments on some of my Ellon Mars painting videos because frankly I know people feel bad that they can't be all smart and handsome and change the face of the Earth because they want to.

I must have painted his face five times then scratch that and start over

Happy Easter /  by Mirena Rhee

“Life in the universe seems to be balanced on a knife edge. Shift any of the states in beryllium, carbon, or oxygen just a whisker in the wrong direction and you end up with a carbon-free universe, one with no life, or at least not life as we know it. It’s as if some great cosmic tinkerer has carefully arranged their subtle nuclear properties so that enough of these atoms could get forged inside stars, sprayed out across the cosmos, and then, by a series of random accidents over billions of years, come together to form walking, talking collections of atoms that spend at least some of their time wondering about how they got there.”

From the book “How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch. In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang” by Harry Cliff.

“While most of the cells in your body regenerate every seven to 15 years, many of the particles that make up those cells have actually existed for millions of millennia. The hydrogen atoms in you were produced in the big bang, and the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms were made in burning stars. The very heavy elements in you were made in exploding stars.

The size of an atom is governed by the average location of its electrons. Nuclei are around 100,000 times smaller than the atoms they’re housed in. If the nucleus were the size of a peanut, the atom would be about the size of a baseball stadium. If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of lead dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

As you might guess, these spaced-out particles make up only a tiny portion of your mass. The protons and neutrons inside of an atom’s nucleus are each made up of three quarks. The mass of the quarks, which comes from their interaction with the Higgs field, accounts for just a few percent of the mass of a proton or neutron. Gluons, carriers of the strong nuclear force that holds these quarks together, are completely massless. 

If your mass doesn’t come from the masses of these particles, where does it come from? Energy. Scientists believe that almost all of your body’s mass comes from the kinetic energy of the quarks and the binding energy of the gluons.”

From “The particle physics of you”: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-particle-physics-of-you.