Sunday, September 18, 2011

Creative Flow

May I start by saying that I have gone into business for myself! I am graphically creating collages of people favorite animal for a dollar (I'll raise it to two dollars once I'm well known). I've already made 2 and I've got another 2 customers on hold! That's four dollars! I can buy a Venom and still have a dollar left! I'm an artist! Now, second of all and more importantly I should like to discuss bed sheets. In college the character of a room and the person living within is defined by the bed sheets. My first roommate has a city scape with a wolf blanket, my second roommate has a lovely red tapestry. Now, I have a charming orange animal blanket with elephants and donkeys and doves and a very fluffy brown blanky but my bed sheets... My mother purchased me these pretentious, crisp, white bed sheets. She is a minimalist and looks very good in plain white herself BUT I AM AN ARTIST! MY BED SHEETS MUST HOLLER THE EXCELLENCE OF MY ARTISTIC FLOW! So I says to meself... perhaps I could customize them but oh no, my mum would hate that. That would be destroying them to her BUT THEN I SAYS TO MESELF! I says this, "Wait a moment, I'm an adult. These are the bed sheets of an adult. She has no twin bed and she shant be wanting them back! These are truly mine! The bed sheets of a grown up! And if I wanted to paint Monet's Water Lilies upon them to do so would affect only me and I have the right to." You see, it still hasn't fully registered to me that I'm an adult living on my own without parents. Sometimes I have to remind myself but these beautiful moments of clarity come at random intervals and I feel the most remarkable freedom. This was such a moment. So, I designed a wonderful swirl elephant on one side of my pillow case (in honor of my mother who loves elephants and inspired this moment of freedom) and on the other side I painted many swirls, peace signs, the earth, my hand print, my foot and a whole zoo of my favorite animals! Now, I bet you're wondering about my bed sheets. My favorite movie of all time is Peter Pan. The original cartoon by Disney has a special place in my heart and the book was fantastic BUT what I speak of is the live action film in 2003. That movie inspires me to tears every time I see it, I am not even kidding. I would marry that movie. I wish I were the movie photographer for that movie more than I wish to breath my next breath. I love every quote of that movie, every hollywood mistake. So, I watched it thoroughly, paint marker in hand, and wrote in a flowing cursive script all of my favorite quotes in chronological order upon my bed sheets. The end result is stunning! I am so happy and I know there is a chance my mum will read this and be most displeased with my choices to be impure but I love her and I believe, in the end, she's kind of inspired at the idea of having an artistic daughter. Something about it must, at the very least, spark her interest. You don't have to be an artist to appreciate one. I love you mom. Now if you'll excuse me, I have paint all over my face and I can't remember if I've gone to the bathroom at all today lol

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