Where neuroscience and surrealism collide — During the first outbreak of Covid-19, walking down the streets evoked some kind of familiar, yet extra-terrestrial feeling. I couldn’t quite put the feeling down in words, but I knew it had something to do with cities being empty; buildings looking lonely and isolated. After all, we have built and…

Why you shouldn’t want to be a “Stoic” — Across the vast lands of Twitter, bookshops, Amazon and Medium, one Philosophy has ruled them all. Stoicism is the philosophy in which thinkers — most notably Seneca and Epictetus — emphasised that a wise person would be emotionally adaptable to adversity since “virtue is sufficient for happiness”. My argument is…

🍆🍑 This is how framing art with nudity quadrupled my writing income. Send Nudes? — Voluptuous bodies, bizarre positions, collages, photography, and nakedness aplenty. This is the world I have immersed myself in for the last couple of months. Sure, one may notice that is all about framing. …

The amusing genius, in three — never modest — paintings. — The infinite, dopamine-filling, trippy and relaxing rabbit hole of Pinterest took me once more by surprise. Entering the door to the downwards tunnel of a “tattoo” search I found Magritte. More specifically, beautifully made tattoos replicating Magritte’s surrealist paintings. There were (mostly) all of the famous paintings, The Son of…

My trip to the under of the down under, at the Museum of Old and New Art — The day before the ferry trip, was the day of the plane trip. It was a cold day and my 30th birthday. By that time — three days ago — I had virtually no money, a semi-promising writing passion project, a lot of dreams (who hasn’t) and a couple of…

A philo-somethingal investigation. Note: this may be confusing — Starting note: the sentence that makes the title comes from an interview I was following on YouTube. I’m telling you this because sure, maybe artists do not need to believe in themselves to have success, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t strive to. In the video I was watching an…

Is it fair to talk about “tortured” artists? An essay exploring the strength of the assumptions on artists mental health, and what it means for us. — “I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me. Now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head… at times I have attacks of melancholy and of atrocious remorse.”— Van Gogh

All of this may change or disappear. Such is the life of an insecure person’s product. — This story is a bit improvised, in many ways I feel like it may be a “felt cute, might delete later” type of story. See, I am in no way Magritte, but an anecdote of his may help me clarify my feelings. When Magritte was asked to produce a self-portrait…

The inquisitive philosophy of René Magritte — While everyone in Paris was drinking peach cocktails, living a bohemian life and fanboying over Sigmund Freud, Magritte took time to develop, dissemble, and renew thought. All while having a job in advertising. For Magritte, art went far beyond psychoanalysis. And, as someone who has been in the world of…