JUURI Art Blog
Tropic Fever
Nothing can energize my creative mind and blast my brain full of new ideas like TRAVEL can! I make it a priority and try to have something like 2 big trips per year, with some little ones added in.
I went to Mexico in the summer, and this winter I visited Hawaii for the first time since I was a child.
Mysterious Girl! "Relentless - Yousha Nashi -"
I made this unprecedented-ly wild (for me) painting to explore a grim topic that I had been thinking about lately. That is illegal drugs. I realize that it's a bit weird for an artist to be so opposed to drugs, (aren't we all supposed to smoke weed and say f*** the police all the time whilst creating angst-y, shocking works?) Maybe so, but I've never fit in with the crowd.
Anyway, I currently live in the state which is ranked #1 for drug abuse in the entire country, and this entire country is #1 for illegal drug consumption in this whole world. I had never known those facts before.
Sneek Peek of "Relentless - Yousha Nashi -"
Here is a sneak peek of a piece that is on its way to Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco. It's for their 1-year anniversary group show. The piece is acrylic and colored pencil on birch board. The fleshtone of my girl's face is actually the wood tone.
If you are in SF, drop by the opening on 12/14 to see it! The artist lineup is quite stellar. I will post the full piece here on the blog after the show opens. Enjoy! <3
WHITE FRIDAY
The words "moving house" probably fill any Western person with a slight amount of dread at the great undertaking. You'll have to set aside several whole days (or weeks) to pack, hire movers, hold a garage sale, empty the storage facility, and generally sort through the unbelievable amount of stuff that you're accumulated through the years.
I know, because it fills me with dread too. Why should it be like this?
The Fear of Feeling Home
The more I go through this life, the more I realize that I seem to be in a strange never-ending state of solitude-seeking. A constant state of suspended-reality-seeking. A constant avoidance of those things that make feel like I'm here, now, this this city, in this life, even in this room.
I tend to avoid joining clubs or other social organizations. I have few friends. I have few connections.