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Neli Naum

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I was told I could write what I really feel today so this is my bio:

My name is Naum but some people call me Neli. I was born on Tepac, Quahutil on the 81st solar year in the Tetonyac prefecture – this makes me 28.

When I was a boy I found a star suit in the hills above our home. I don’t know what happened to the starman who the suit belonged to or what it was doing there in the hills but being a kid I thought it would be chalchi to climb into the damned thing. I found that It made me travel sideways, or actually everything moved sideways past me -  I know this cause I get easy motion-sick and so far I haven’t up-chucked once. I don’t know what happened to make the star suit do this, but I have been travelling ever since and I have not been able to find my home again. Some places are cool but some are freeky-scary.

Over the years I have grown a Danny Trejo mustache (I am a fan) and learnt to be artful. Mostly: I learnt typescriffing and poster design in a dark city where everyone wears tuxedos and smokes too much; and I painted portraits on an island full of really big tattooed people who “coach” art with wrestling.

I usually don’t stay long, but wherever I go I like to leave behind a piece of art to share a bit of culture before I go.

All the scientistas I have met in my travels tell me how flexible time is, and most seem to think that time is really just another place that we are not able to see. This is very comforting ‘cause it means that every good time doesn’t disappear – its just a place that you can’t get to right now. It also made me realise that if you could look at space and time on a flat map even the greatest empires, with all their many centuries would look very very small. This is sad but it also makes every culture special, and we should honour them.

The guys at glyph seem to appreciate this and I think they understand that wherever there is life there will be expression, and this makes the universe wonderful to explore. So I will stay here for a while now and paint about my times, I am also good friends with Andy’s dogs and I like Riki even if he thinks I am full of tlazo and none of this is true!

Below is a sketch of the suit. Andy has done a better one also.