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Maisoui

"...live large and walk in Beauty!" Charles de Lint

About Me

...oh, if only I fit into a neat & tidy soundbite...however..here goes...I'm an artist and fine art installer (although I'm finding I'm more comfortable with the steampunk title of Maker rather than artist...) Isculpt in steel, wood, stone, fabric, and pretty much anything intriguing that I can get my mitts on ;)...I paint in oils, watercolor, and oil pastel, I take photos and pose in them, I do performance art and was part of a fetish burlesque troupe for several years...my aesthetic is about as far from Bauhause/Minamilist/Geometric as you can get...scope out my artwork profile on CIRCUS OF CURIOSITIES & SALVAGED DREAMS in my friends list! I write poetry that I'm very shy about...make killer coffee and cakes...lean way left politically, love-love-love dancing!!...I'm fascinated by quantum physics and cosmology and at the other end of the spectrum I'm fascinated by meta-physics and magic...my Sweetie says I'm part Orc and part Hobbit and despite being madly in love with him I'm very susceptible to crushes-a romantic with naughty tendencies, if you will...
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My Interests

Art making of all sorts (painting, sculpting, drawing, performance, photo, printmaking, fibre), SteamPunk, Goth, Fetish, chilling with friends, critters of all sorts, gardening in doors and out, comics & reading, cartoons & animation, "...pullin' bubbles through that space ship...", dancing, yoga, World of WarCraft (I am such a nerd), I'd love to learn to scuba...green building and technologies

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan (guess I'll have to wait for the afterlife or whatever for this), the same goes for Terence McKenna, Brian Greene, Stephen Weinberg, Rob Brezny... is it strange that as an artist I'm far more interested in meeting scientists and philosophers than I am in meeting famous artists?

Music:

It's really all about what I'm doing and how I'm feeling...Tom Waits...Lord of The Rings soundtrack...Tom Petty...Native American Internet Radio channel...Kate Bush...Left of The Dial Compilation...Jethro Tull...Pink Floyd...Tory Amos...Treat Her Right...

Movies:

Sci-fi/Fantasy...Star Wars!!! Lord of the Rings...The Hobbit (animated)...most Tim Burton...Pirates of the Carribean...Big Trouble in Little China!!!!....Fantasia...Triplets of Bellville...Labyrinth...The Dark Crystal...Nausicaa...

Television:

No reception...no cable...however...DVDs & Vids aplenty...I particularly dig cartoons...Futurama, Samurai Jack, The Pink Panther....documentaries about all sorts of critters, plants, space, quantum physics (Carl Sagan's Cosmos and anything done by Sir David Attenborough)...British comedy!!...The Young Ones, Black Adder, Red Dwarf...old school detective shows lilke Hawaii 5-O, Columbo, Bannacheck (am I spelling that right?) Sherlock Holmes & Agatha Christie...and I am a huge Dr. Who geek! Cartoons...Samurai Jack...Futurama...The Pink Panther

Books:

Sci-fi & fantasy, although not so much sci-fi, more urban fantasy, fairy tales, steampunk, comics & graphic novels, kids books with cool illustrations, alternative home building & off-the-grid stuff...I was one of those kids who was constantly being yelled at in school for reading...now they say kids don't read enough...go figure...

Heroes:

Carl Sagan, John Dobson (inventor of the Dobsonian telescope & sidewalk astronomer), Stephan Hawking, Vali Meyers, Jim Henson, Al Gore, Alexander Calder, Sir David Attenborough, Dr. Ted Seuss Geisel, Rob Brezny, Jane Goodall, Jaques Cousteau