A Shared Reality

A place for me to collect artistic inspiration. Also some strange amalgamation of portfolio, virtual sketchbook, and compendium of my reference materials.

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Luna Moth Fairy

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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren

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Atreyu, of the Grassy Sea. Painting of my favorite character from one of my favorite books of all time, the Neverending Story. I still pour one out for Artax.

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Bashi-Bazouk

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vésoul 1824–1904 Paris)

Date: 1868–69

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“Kintsugi or kintsukuroi is a is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.”

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on my blog before, but in my non-nail-art life I am a psychiatric nurse, and I work with children and adolescents struggling with severe mental illness.  Some of the kids dig my nail art, so lately I’ve been trying to paint designs that I think they’ll enjoy.  This is one of those, because it embodies the hope I have for all of them (and for myself as well): that we can find a way to live with our broken bits that makes our lives more beautiful, not less.

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