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.: Isabel Samaras :.    
 
We dare you to explain yourself in 10 words... or less.
I'm an enigmatic storyteller who uses paint instead of words.

What is your SMART SASSY STYLISH goal as illustrated in BikiniKat's Motivational Strategy for the Millennium?
To cause a moment of stillness while people go inside themselves, forget the world, trance out and think about something for a second while they look at the art. Until someone's cell phone rings. It's a small goal. But small goals are easy to achieve and then you feel like a rock star!

What kind of SASSY things do you do to achieve your STYLISHNESS?
I color the living daylights out of my hair. Which will probably lead to premature baldness, but then there are always wigs! Then I feel happenin' even when I sit in my studio and grow moss on my body while I paint all day, which is pretty much what it takes to create this artwork.

What kind of SMARTS do you need to be SASSY in order to achieve your STYLISHNESS?
Gotta have the smarts to figure out what the hell to paint and hope to nail it, then get ballsy and tell some gallery they really need to show it, say a little prayer that someone will buy it because their life will be incomplete without it (which is totally true), and then I can afford to go and get all the little goodies that make me happy. Like chocolates and hair dye and paint brushes.

What part of your personality helps you achieve your goal?
Being a big goofball and being really obsessive. The goofball allows for moments of foolish bravery, and the obsessive thing keeps me painting with the little brush that has 3 hairs in it.

What part gets in your way?
The self-critical jerk who lives on my left shoulder who is constantly telling me lousy stuff about my work and that my ass is big. I would like to muzzle, stifle, tranquilize, neuter and otherwise silence that little weasel.

Can you tell us a Farting Turtle story?
How to choose? The most recent was a comment from a fellow artist who always says stuff like this: "That recent painting you did was great- it's so much less obvious than your usual work." He's a Black Belt Farting Turtle.

How did you overcome that Farting Turtle?
I told a few people about it, followed by the comment "What as ass!" That way I could get it out of my system and get a little positive reinforcement, "He is an ass and your work is obviously not 'obvious'!"

THANK YOU for spending the time to share you SMART SASSY STYLISH life with all the BikiniKat Fan Club Members, we really appreciate it... because we like YOU!