Hello and Welcome to Tacky Design. I needed more space to hang my art work and share it with the world, so I decided to start this blog.
My name is Maribel. I was born in the Republic of Panama in the year that JPII ascended to the Seat of Peter. I was a toddler in the 1980's, and the dawn of MTV made a great impact in my young and very responsive mind. I grew up watching too many Japanese T.V. shows as well: everything from fragile and sweet characters ('Angel'), to Ninjas, and Samurais on the lam. Well, if you were around, you know that by the 1990's the tables had turned: the sweet and fragile characters ('Honey Honey') were on the lam, and the Samurai Cats were delivering pizza in Little Tokyo. Life had become mundane for the disciplined and gifted. The fragile and lyrical characters were on to live lives that were getting more and more unstable every day.
Yikes. So you see? I had a difficult childhood in front of the T.V. All of these T.V. shows were of a prophetical quality. First of all, they describe a dichotomy; the ambivalence of existence. Everyone watch two types of shows: the ones with the agile blood thirsty foes (Mazinger Z and other robots), and the ones with the sweet little girls who only live to love and to be loved. So I guess that everybody is both: everybody is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We are ambivalent and there are two things inside of us that seem incongruent until the time that it is rightly applied to reality. We eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches more readily than we eat a strawberry jelly and grape jelly sandwich. In conclusion, I am a blood thirsty ninja when it comes down to Art and that is so incongruent with everything else in reality. Example: my grammar.
Moving forward. Now as an adult I have moved to USA, and I have had the chance to admire early 20th Century Art, and it has inspired me in many ways. I work on different media: Computer Aided Designs, Jewelry Design with Poly Clay, and Gemstones, and seed beads, and I would also like to make a movie. My sources of inspiration are not only from T.V. and movies. Everyone and everything has become and inspiration! Hahahaha, almost everyone! I should mention Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Yohji Yamamoto, and Willem de Kooning, as some of the Masters that never cease to inspire me; never cease to stimulate my mind beyond what the senses have perceived or at least beyond what I remember that I have lived! (Love you guys!)
I wish I had all the time in the universe to indulge in Art, but there is more to life than Art. OMG. I don't want Tacky Design to expand through the world like a cancer. Yikes. But yes, I am passionate.
When I am not working on art, I am in the kitchen making smoothies or chopping salad. Lying: I am in the kitchen frying something. LOL.
As far as reading fiction goes, sometimes I spend too much time reading the stories of the Golden Age of Science Fiction or reading stories about UFO. Yes, my mind is all over the place. I am a true generalist and a Futurist--- this is why I call this website 'Tacky Design' --- because my mind has taken reality and it has made a smoothie with it! Well, reality is a sticky substance which has not yet been identified. Hehe. Sorry God. I believe in you, but the people who don't believe in a God who created it all keep thinking that reality is too tacky, so maybe this existence is too cheesy to have been on purpose. Hahahaha. Yes, I am defending those poor atheists. Well, you know, I am saying this, but I have remembered being yelled at in College during a session by a Professor who found me to be 'sloppy' while I worked on my assignment. She called me sloppy in front of every one. I was like 27 years old, and I felt really sad. So I guess she did not see God in me. You know what I mean? Creating something requires entropy. Ordering or creating something creates disorder--- so patience must be part of the equation. New relationships will initially create a truck load of entropy before any good fruit can come forward from the exchange. So any atheist reading this: maybe there is a God and you sense Him/Her; except, you find God's taste to be inferior to yours and that is why you choose not to register His/Her input. LOL.
So I am the god of this website, at least until it gets hacked. You can call me sloppy or tacky, or of inferior taste, but you can't deny that I exist. My mind is a whirlpool: it never stops. I often choose to shroud it in mystery but now I need to vent out for real--- because it must have a profound purpose. Yeah, I am Neo. I am the anomaly--- or should I say: I am Somni 451!
My mind is a whirlpool to be reveal because sometimes I take ideas too seriously (there are no calm waters), and I am guilty of obsessing with all things of the Pop Culture: Time travel, demonic influence, 'The Matrix', Morgellons, Prism, UFOs, 'The Observers' ('Fringe' fan!), mercury in vaccines, etc, etc, etc. This is the reason why I need Tacky Design. I need it to be just a place for recreation. Please, don't take anything that you see in here too seriously. Maybe this is a therapy for myself. I hope that everyone enjoys this site, and find themselves more relaxed and free to... well...free to be free!
Peace to All!
Maribel.
