I explore how science and psychology can reshape the creative path of an artist. Recently I began engaging studies of neuroaesthetics into the creative process of my works. It may come as a surprise to some, but human’s core need for art is not cultural, but rather natural or animalistic. Evolutionary our brains are coded to detect danger in the environment we're in. Brain doesn’t care if environment’s real or fake. So every time the brain notices the "danger", portions of adrenaline and dopamine are being released into your blood stream. As a result, you tend to feel pleased by what you’re seeing. So, If you think you like beautiful you are wrong because you like dangerously beautiful. 

Elementary aesthetics: composition #4

Elementary Aesthetics: composition #3

Elementary aesthetics: composition #2

Elementary aesthetics: composition 1

Lily is 5. Her favorite thing to do is watering plants, especially TREES. Actually, Trees are her favorite plants! They give you shade, when it’s hot and save you from the rain, when its pouring. They can feed you and even become your best friend!Trees are so special.

S1E1. Lily.

Sam is Lily's older brother. He is a real bookworm. His favorite writers are Jack London and Alexandre Dumas. Sam is very fond of math too. When he grows up, he wants to become an engineer and help people and animals live better. Sam is very fond of animals, especially elephants, dolphins and rhinos.

S1E2. Sam. 

A robot knight once showed up at a bus stop while Lily was driving to the kindergarten. They immediately connected and became best friends. The robot knight said that his name was Canon and he arrived from the future. He said that all trees and wild animals were in danger and he was on a mission to save them. He is so brave, but isn't “Canon” a funny name for a knight?

S1E3. Robot knight from the future.

Roger the Rabbit is Sam’s best friend. They’ve known each other since Sam was two. Roger loves surfing. And, by the way, it was Sam, who introduced him to the ocean and big waves for the first time. Roger’s biggest dream is to conquer a giant wave in Nazar. To do so, he constantly trains. He says without it little can be achieved. Roger is a such a wise rabbit.  

S1E4. Roger the Rabbit. 

There is a hill next to Lily's house. There is a bench on very top of that hill. Lily often goes there to look at the waves splashing below or ships sailing in far distance. But when the sea is especially calm, as it is today, Lily loves to read her favorite book - The Little Prince by Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger vicomte de Saint-Exupéry.  

S1E5. Lily and the Little Prince. 

Sam and his friends love playing outdoor games! The hardest one is to play hide and seek in the open field. BUT for Sam and his friends it is only a fun opportunity to find the extraordinary in the ordinary – it’s what they like to do.

S1E6. Hide and Seek. 

There is nothing more fun than a fast bike ride. Especially if you’re riding down the slope and the wind is blowing in your face, tickling your nose and ears. Lily is a little late for dinner. She had a hectic day and is finally free and on her way home. Thinking of home made Lily feel warm and cheerful at heart. And so she pedaled even harder to get home even sooner.

S1E7. Way home. 

When Sam decided to teach Lily how to play the Corners game, he had no idea that he would get such a strong opponent in her. Since then, before going to bed, they always play a game (or two). Sometimes he beats her, sometimes she beats him. But none keeps the score because, as maman loves to say “c’est la vie, enjoy the experience”

S1E8. Corners. 

Roger is a kind rabbit. Not all rabbits in the city have the opportunity to grow their own veggies. Roger knows that he grows way more than he can eat by himself. So at night, when he is most free, along with his friend Willie, they go to the other side of the city to share his carrots. In return, grateful city rabbits share with him things they have an abundance of like light bulbs or handkerchiefs or needles.   

S1E9. The rabbit carries carrots down the river. 

Lily believes that a tree can be planted and grown anywhere, even under a metal bridge in a big city like the one, where her grandmother lives.

S1E10. Under the bridge. 

This is us. You and Me. By looking at the mirror of the painting you become an essential part of it. Grab a friend (or a stranger) look into it together. We all are one now – we are united through an experience of this painting. Similar experiences unite us. No matter the social status, color of the skin, gender, political views etc I dare to assume that, at the very core of our being, we all desire just one thing – a lifelong experience of genuine happiness and inward balance. I wish you that! I wish us all that.  

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