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Acrylic on paper. June 16, 2011. NYC

Everyone knows that dreams are made up of repeating blue circles, tender flowing metal, furry animal scales, and black and white static.

Continents of Meeting

Drawing by Perin. Pen and coffee stain on ruled notebook paper. May 2011.

Office meetings will be a waste of time when the end of the world comes this Saturday. Wait, office meetings already are a waste of time despite the date of the end. This doodle of continents meeting and parting and falling apart was created at one.

Samsara

Painting by Perin. Acrylic on Paper. Winter 2011.

This one is on the cycle of death and re-birth. Rotting fruit are a very common subject in European still life paintings, reminding the viewer of his or her own mortality (Memento mori). Fruit also represent sexuality, pregnancy, and birth. Is that a candied apple or blood? (Or is it just wet red acrylic paint?). If you really, really want it to, the central apple can also allude to Adam and Eve and the fall from Grace.

I named this painting Samsara, but there is enough repeated and echoed and impregnated fruit here to symbolize something for everyone. Enjoy!

Highschool surrealism

Painting by Perin. Acrylic on paper. Winter 2011. This is the kind of amateur surrealist mystical identity crisis painting I used to excel at in high school. So it stays in the notebook here. RinseRepeat.

Roses

Painting by Perin. Acrylic on Paper. Winter 2011
That's a fur stole, repeating the pearls and the lips. The roses (and the background music) are a counter-point.

Happy Birthday Fish

Painting by Perin. Acrylic on paper. Winter 2011.

This is a happy birthday fish painting for a Pisces (Meghan). It is one of the more "presentable" paintings I made this year.

Flower Dub Song

Painting by Perin, Acrylic on paper, winter 2011.

Can't remember exactly when I made this; I was inspired by the domestic violets in our Istanbul apartment's kitchen. James called it a dub painting. This painting repeats itself very badly (in an awesome way), because I re-painted, moved, cut, and pasted the original painting after I took its echo.

I like how some of the echo flowers look like a totally different type of violet.