Hello, world.

Hi there! I'm Bondi, and I'm an artist. Well, at least I'm trying to be. It seems like the world doesn't want to think of anyone as anything unless they're selling whatever it is that they do.

See, I've been told my whole entire life that to be successful in the world you have to do one thing: make some money. And not just any amount of money, ohhhh no. Lots of money, enough money to be able to pay people to like you/sleep with you/do basically anything you could imagine.

I say fuck that.

You see, I know people who have high-paying jobs, people who make more in a month than my family makes in a year. But not one of them is happy. It's a complete cliche that 'money can't buy happiness', but it's true.

So, I want to be happy. That is my life goal. I'm hoping that that won't disappear as I get older, that I always hold onto this one little thing.

In case you're wondering, at the moment, I'm not happy. My life is pretty screwed up right now, and I try to stay positive... Sometimes all the negative gets twisted around me and I can't wriggle out of its grasp without the help of some close friends, chocolate, and James Bond movies. Because James Bond is cheezy and ridiculous, and I love every single second of it.

Anyway, back to the point! (I get sidetracked a lot) I'm an artist. Mixed media is my chosen art form, mainly using acrylic paint and recycled materials (boxes, cans, etc.) I love the effect that swirling different colors of paint gives. This is one of my pieces, which is entitled 'Faces'. It was created from cardboard boxes, acrylic paint, and newspaper. Please ignore the badly Photoshopped-out background. I had to take the picture with the piece leaning against a chair, and it looked rather more horrible without the black around it.




And here's a close-up of the swirled paint. I dubbed this piece 'Faces', because if you rotate the piece, different faces seem to appear in the paint.




I haven't been creating for very long (maybe 4 months tops), but I love what I do. The unconventionality, the feel of the paint, the sound of crinkling foil... Art is like a drug to me. It calms, soothes, drives away the rest of the world. I have a few more pieces that I'm working on at the moment which I hope to complete soon. Check back to this blog for random ramblings and art.

- Bondi

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
::: Diego Rivera :::