and lots of fun!

So my art show was pretty awesome.

The whole point was to basically show off the stuff I wasn’t really too invested in, and to get rid of stuff that I was planning to throw out if it couldn’t find a home.

It made me feel good to see how cleaned out everything was by the end.

There were good reactions I didn’t expect from pieces I had done much earlier in my painting career, and peoples impressions overall about what feelings were evoked in other particular pieces was good for me to hear as well. Also it was fun to tell the stories about them, since I had things as old as nine years up in the mix, when my life was pretty damned different. Plus people were sort of fighting over a piece or two, so that was a happy moment.

The apartment looked really good as a gallery, and I think the space is going to retain some of that quality to it. Also I think I will end up having much more art shows in there, but I’m not sure at what frequency.

At the moment something gets put on a wall, its no longer just something sitting in my stacks of crap, it is more of an object somehow. Learned lots of lessons.

For once I feel really attuned to what I want to do with my life.

Thanks to all my friends who made it, and those who didn’t but have supported me through the years.

I wish I had a car again., originally uploaded by chaoflux.

This is my ‘man, when the fuck is the bus gonna get here!?’ face.

So getting to my place can be kind of confusing for some people, so I put together this handy little sequence of images to hopefully clear it up.

I’m going to have to put this after a cut, so click through and check it out.

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So within the last week I feel like I really found myself artistically.

What I really want to do is just make tons of fast sketchy pen and gouache pictures, and make bigger painted pieces that are longer conversations.

The plan is to set myself up on Etsy and eBay, or whatever else, and play around with selling my work, more as craft and ornament rather than ’serious art’. Although my larger paintings feel interpersonal and psychological, if only to me. Maybe at some point I will even try to get more active on the local level of the art world.

Romantically I feel the pull of the Muse, exactly what I really wanted to find. (For the record I am still a Magus.) The faces, gestures, lines, and tunes of the women in my life are directly put into my art. I’m not sure if you could call it romance in the normal sense of the word, or perhaps it is an even more traditional understanding I am after.

I have been having lots more conversations with friends about art in general, and all the different implications of being an artist. Quite refreshing, I’m feeling pretty nourished by the minds I have gathered around me.

For the first time in my life, I can look at myself as an artist and not pair that up with self deprecation. It is all about enjoying the process, and I’ve found my groove.

I have taken way too much time off of work, and I really need to catch up on design projects tonight and tomorrow. Working is such a drag, hope art sales becomes something I can really focus on as my main food source. I’m literally a starving artist, don’t let the beer gut fool you.

I’m happy. I’m getting out. I’m face to face with beauties. I’m doing what I do.

Been signing my work with my legal last name. Just bought Rafatpanah.com and made it redirect here. Not sure if its possible to stop being Danny Fucking Chaoflux, and I don’t think I’m going to start trying.

Anyways, love you guys. Cya soon. Art show this weekend.

What’s thi-, originally uploaded by chaoflux.

Ooof!

Given to Edward Wilson as a gift.

See what happens when you hang with me? ^_^

Night before last, originally uploaded by chaoflux.

And before the park.

Headed back to the park again in a few.