Ariana Papademetropoulos is a Los Angeles/Rome/Paris-based artist best known for her awe-inspiring surrealist paintings. Ariana has been featured in publications including Interview Magazine, Dazed, and Document Journal, and she collaborated with Gucci on a fotonovella called A Love Story. Back in 2022, her solo show Baby Alone in Babylon featured a collection of magnificent large-scale unicorn paintings at NYC’s Vito Schnabel Gallery, and last year she created a visual art piece titled A Mon Seul Désir as part of the project “Louvre Looks,” where 20 contemporary artists were invited to create a video inside of the legendary museum. If you’re in Paris you can currently see her work at a group show titled Re-enchantment at Thaddeaus Ropac Gallery. Lucky for us, Ariana is here to tell us what she’s been into.
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He was known as the first real life superhero, and Marlon Brandos private investigator . When he was a child his hands blew off in an accident - so he had two metal claws to replace them . With these claws he would hold guns , fight crime , and caress his pet lions. He is the guy Brando hired in Tahiti when his son went missing and he succeeded in finding him. He is still alive in Florida , and in his home he has a special button in his office that opens a secret door . I love him .
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This is a great idea when you don’t have the mental capacity to pick and outfit but you want to look put together . Just put on an expensive coat and you’re good to go . I love having my hair blow dried , nice earrings and an expensive coat and having people think I’m sophisticated. It’s exciting to know you could flash and commit a crime at any moment . Every time I do it I swear , people treat me different , ask me out on dates , smile at me , give me things for free. Just don’t do it at the airport as I did in once before as - they will ask you to take your coat off .
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It is so rare for angler fish to find one another in the deep abyss , but when a male finds a female, the male attaches himself to her. Slowly … he morphs into her .. losing his eyes .. his mouth .. and everything else that resembles being a fish. He fuses into her until there’s nothing of him left . There is something horrifying but also romantic about it .
One of my favorite recent discoveries , the psychic photographer Ted serios . He would concentrate on a memory and imprint his memories onto polaroid film ( as it was instant and no alteration could be make later in lab ) and no one has been able to prove that his photographs are not in fact real . The imperfections such as words on signs being spelled wrong , is what makes it impossible to prove they aren’t real . They are photos of memories , blurry and inaccurate , as a memory would be. Ted was famous in the 1970’s and would perform his psychic photography on live television , but had to get absolutely hammered to be in the right mental state to do so . And he is Greek so , I like him even more.
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The direct flights from Paris to Los Angeles cost 300 and the plane is empty, so much so you can book the day of. It allows me travel impulsively to Paris at a low cost / low risk. You get a whole row to yourself so it’s basically first class. I am telling you this secret as I have a feeling it won’t last so please , fly with French bee before it’s too late .
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