Reina
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Reina is Spanish for Queen, but I am neither. I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but never lived there. If you ask me where I'm from I could not tell you except to say that I belong everywhere and nowhere at once, a citizen of the world and at the same time, the perpetual outsider looking in. My father was a U.S. diplomat and we moved like nomads across continents and oceans alike: Burma, Brazil, Curacao, The Netherlands, Germany, The Philippines and Trinidad & Tobago. My mother collected artwork from every far-flung region we located to. Each piece told a story of a place and a time, of a people and a culture... they were my memories. This is what has brought me to love art as I do now. My obsession with pop culture at the same time grew from a longing to fit-in with my American peers and so hours would be devoted to devouring every U.S. magazine I could get my hands on, any glimpse of MTV I could see, any product which as if through contagious magic would make me more American. Join me as I navigate through LaLa Land and the cyber-jungle, collaging a journal of everything from the mundane to the sublime. |
| Favorite movies | To Catch a Thief, All About Eve, Marnie, Pan's Labrynth, An Education, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Art of the Steal, Gigi, Memento, Grey Gardens (the documentary), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Farinelli |
| Favorite books | Atlas Shrugged |