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It’s fairly common and normal for our childhood goals to fall by the wayside as we grow older. It becomes impractical or over simplified. One of the dreams I had as a child was to become a LEGO © engineer. I still have the largest collection of LEGOs of any adult I know, but it [...]
August 30, 2012Read More
You are giving up BEING miserable. I recently lost a friend to suicide. Her name was Katrina. In fact she was the person my beloved and I first body painted together. Nine days after we painted her she killed herself. I felt so powerless. How could I not know? I wasn’t there for her. I [...]
July 17, 2012Read More
I am writing this from a friend’s laptop. Last Thursday night my backpack was stolen out of another friend’s car after an event that I body painted at. I was surprisingly calm about the whole thing. Part of me thought that I had renter’s insurance. Turns out, I do not. The policy ran out last [...]
April 10, 2012Read More
The cool thing about getting to write your own column is that awesome power of the blank page. What will Mythica write NEXT!!?!?!? Well this is my first time doing this and so far it seems that you guys like what I write so I’m just going to keep going. Turns out that it is [...]
February 20, 2012Read More
The end of the year 2011 was really rough for me. For as amazing as November was with the Sarasota chalk art festival and visiting my family, December was as low in emotional devastation. I don’t know how many of you are aware of the astrological event called “Mercury Retrograde.” So very briefly, it is [...]
February 13, 2012Read More
There are some amazingly talented body painters out there in the world. They are paid top dollar for what they do. I dream of being one of them here VERY soon. I learn from each one. I am inspired by their extraordinary skills. I don’t know the stories that are behind their pictures. What was [...]
February 6, 2012Read More
… I asked about Suicide Girls © on my website because a photographer wants to hire me to paint a potential girl… Prior to being asked I had never heard of them other than in passing. I thought they were a band honestly. Turns out they started out as a women owned alternative edgy, [...]
January 26, 2012Read More
I could try to explain the sacred mystery that an artist goes through when they are inspired to do something, but every artist is unique, and every inspiration is also unique. My friend Alicia asked if she could post to my wall/timeline some body painting images she found. I said yes. One of those images [...]
January 20, 2012Read More
Creating a fashion event is a huge amount of work. There are so many elements that go into it. So many people. So many places for things to go wrong. When it comes to show time most people in the audience have no idea what the event planner went through to make it all happen. [...]
December 19, 2011Read More
Yes I write poetry, but there are stories behind the poetry too. I am going to share one of them with you today. Things and events in my life are what inspire my poetry. Early on in my year and a day of mythical poetry I heard about the Cherokee story of the two wolves. [...]
December 10, 2011Read More