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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Visionary and Purveyor of Truth and Beauty
ABOUT ME
I LOVE ACHIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE! INTERNATIONAL ARTIST, ANGEL CHEN, INC.
Art is my hero and occasionally music saves my life. I love books and own at least 1000 good ones.
VENICE, CALIFORNIA
Birthday June 9th
Last school UCLA
Based in Venice Beach, California, currently on tour in Europe and Asia. London, Dublin, Venezia, Basel, Kassel, Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing...You cannot get lost on a straight road. 'The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles...' - Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
Interested in:
Enlightenment, transcendence, the beautiful and the sublime, existing beyond the ordinary range of perception, contemporary art, fashion, intellectual repartee, elegance, sophistication, wit, charm, taste, luxury, uptown, downtown, never midtown. Walking through fire, fearlessness, embracing the unknown, unshakable faith, miracle-makers, the world is my oyster. I do not watch television.
PHILOSOPHY
OUT IS THE NEW IN - I'M ON AN ART PILGRIMAGE CHASING THE DRAGON. VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA, LONDON, DUBLIN, VENICE, ITALY, BASEL, KASSEL, BERLIN, PARIS, TOKYO, SHANGHAI, HONG KONG, BEIJING.
YOU CANNOT GET LOST ON A STRAIGHT ROAD.
"MY ROLE AS AN ARTIST IS TO GIVE AND RECEIVE PLEASURE." CARL ANDRE "THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD + ARTWORK = THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD." MARTIN CREED
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I have been a guest and Iäm looking forward to being a host. I have traveled to: Italy, Paris, Germany, Amsterdam, Switzerland, Austria, London, Dublin, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama...
Interests
ART: General Enlightenment, transcendence, the beautiful and the sublime, existing beyond the ordinary range of perception, contemporary art, fashion, intellectual repartee, elegance, sophistication, wit, charm, taste, luxury, uptown, downtown, never midtown. Walking through fire, fearlessness, embracing the unknown, unshakable faith, miracle-makers, the world is my oyster, I believe in magic. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yoko Ono, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Yayoi Kusama, Joan Mitchell, Per Kirkeby, Cy Twombly, Andrea Zittel, Jack Pierson. Roland Barthes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Krishnamurti, Osho. Modernism. Postmodernism too.
Music: David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, X, Blondie, Prince, Free Design, Moby, Air, Cocteau Twins, The Eagles of Death Metal, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Los Super Elegantes, Madonna, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, Billie Holiday, James Brown; The Bird and The Bee.
Movies: Dreams, by Akira Kurosawa. Shortcuts by Robert Altman. The one I'm living.
- arts
- books
- design
- fashion
- contemporary art
- beauty
- walking
- movies
- magic
- music
- beaches
Music, Movies, and Books
Be Here Now. The Art of Light and Space. The Writings of Robert Smithson. Total Freedom. The Philsosophy of Andy Warhol. Eat, Love, Pray. Dreams by Akira Kurosawa. Artists: Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Olafur Eliasson, Tadao Ando
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Phosphorescence of the midsummer night's waters off the coast of Thailand, a giant sea turtle laying her eggs in Northern Costa Rica, love at first sight.
Teach, Learn, Share
Art, of course.
What I Can Share with Hosts
Art, Design, Interior Design, Philosophy, World View
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