I am taking part in an exhibition which opens next week at VZ Gallery off of Brick Lane in Shoreditch and will run from September 1st to 14th.
And I am pleased to invite you to the Private View of the show on the 2nd September (from 18:00 to 21:00).
Or if you can’t make it on Friday, please come on Thursday the 1st Sept for The TimeOut’s First Thursday.
I will be showing four new works and do hope to see you there!

Further details:

HEROES & VILLAINS
Thursday 1st Sept – London TimeOut’s First Thursday
Friday 2nd Sept – Private View
Saturday 3rd to Wednesday 14th normal visiting

Artists:
Ben Randall, Dan Button, Esme Tearle, Adam Graff, Arina Orlova, Ben Carr,
Charlie Mellors, Chris Nunn, Dale Lewis, Guy Jarrett, Jess White, Paul
Bommer, Paul Dearman, Phil Calver, Rebecca Markless, Russell Taysom,
Ryan Button, Sebastien Dehesdin and Simon Cheadle

Heroes and Villains
September 1st—14th
VZ Gallery
28, Cheshire Street
LONDON E2 6EH
http://www.vzgallery.com/
http://www.firstthursdays.co.uk/
http://www.heroofswitzerland.com/

I drew this sketch on the way from work. And once I got home I was offered a free ticket to see Così fan tutte (a classic score by Mozart) in Royal Opera house (will see if I could use it on Friday). This coincidence stroke me. I had no idea what the guy on the tube was listening in his headphones. Maybe the idea of Mozart hanging besides me in an information space was somehow sensed by me and fixed up on the paper. I guess this is a direct benefit of thoughtless drawings, as ideas could jump in them dismissing my concious… Does this make sense?

© Arina Orlova, 2010

Recently I was working on a project about happiness for the UPcoming UPside exhibition. My research led me to TED, where I found some interesting talks by Stefan Sagmeister where he shares happy design and Daniel Gilbert, whose book “Stumbling on happiness” I am now reading. However researching happiness and being happy or making someone else happy are absolutely different stories! And desire to be happy could lead to paradoxical decisions like the following:

Image © Arina Orlova, 2010

P.S. In fact hanging yourself won’t make anyone happy, on the contrary it would make many other people unhappy…

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