Kismet Arts Tangent

Why this makes me happy:

I’ve been drawing swirly flowers for a long time. Art Nouveau is my favorite art movement followed closely, ever so closely by surrealism.

I went to dahlia lounge for my birthday last month and the matchbox has this motif. Reminds me of a nice time celebrating myself.

I like silver sharpies…

I’ve never painted canvas without a frame (or board) attached. It takes some time and gesso.

It’s pretty big. Nothing can top the crappy mural I did in my first place out of my parents, but the quality and mobility is of greater value. 30inches by 70inches

I love this phrase “avoir atomes crochus” (yes, the distracted make typos). It sums up a lot of things in my mind about romantic france, souls, science, art, love and loss. It means what we would call “having chemistry” or a connection with someone romantically. Literally, it says “to have connected atoms.” I read it in a book, I highly recommend, by Douglas hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop. The book goes into depth about a soul being a pattern of thought that is often replicated in other people’s minds, so when you die, you the essence you, lives on in other’s minds, though perhaps ill-conceived, still… conceived. ?