Dive into Braintree resident Jordan Piantedosi's Instagram (@themermaidmachine) for the psychedelic daydream you don't want to wake from. The 26-year-old MassArt senior documents her art and day-to-day framed in a way that's both lovely and lucid.
Q. When did you know you wanted to be an artist?
A. Before I can even remember! My mom says I was drawing for hours at a time since age 2. It's been my one and only dream for my entire life, except that as a kid my No. 2 choice would be a naturalist with my own TV show, like Jack Hanna or Steve Irwin. That khaki life. I was into snakes.
Q. Who are some artists that you admire?
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A. I look at more comics and illustrations than paintings. A Web comic called 'A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Irreversible' by Dale Beran and David Hellman was very inspiring to me for many years, and then the great painter Dana Schutz, whose paintings are like comics, but with better colors. The fine painters I really like are ones who care about craft, like Jenny Morgan and Christian Rex van Minnen.
Q. Who inspires your work?
A. My biggest influences are Klimt, Schiele, Gaudi, Mucha, Kay Nielson, Escher, Alice Neel . . . and also cartoonists, like Taiyo Matsumoto, Junji Ito, the Hernandez brothers, illustrators like James Jean, Angie Wang, Kristina Collantes. . . then Web comics and video games, but the feminine ones, like Final Fantasy and Jade Cocoon.
Q. You tend to document your paintings on Instagram. Do you find the feedback ever changes your finished product?
A. When I post a progress shot, I see it from a public perspective and suddenly I know where all the mistakes are - like magic! Also, holding your painting up to a mirror helps, too. The idea is you have been staring at the painting for hours, but you have to see it as if you're seeing it for the first time ever.
Q. Who are you following on Instagram?
A.@An_Erin and my other friends, @oholivecreative and @chomponsnacks. And I like female body builders like @paigehathaway, and also just girls who post pictures of themselves a lot and who shamelessly appreciate their own face, which I think is a radical act because it makes some people so upset. I'm a great defender of acts that are categorized as technically useless, but that make life worth living, like art, wiggling, pretending to be your own friend, being unreasonable.
Q. Who do you listen to while you paint?
A. Usually I want something upbeat. I love hip-hop and rap, but also Animal Collective, my friend Silk Rhodes and old stuff like Louie Jordan and the Chordettes. My boyfriend (@laserbeamdream) makes great mixes for me on Spotify and there's one called Lady's Knight. Actually you can find me on Spotify and listen to all my mixes, too, but I wouldn't recommend that.
Q. So what's the post-graduation plan?
A. To paint a lot and to go and paint on a tropical island.
Rachel Raczka can be reached at rachel.raczka@globe.com.
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