GIRL ALEX

...wears a gold necklace and a gold ring, both are engraved with messages and dates. Neither is too small. Both have a little heft.

...likes designs that allow for and highlight the material's own natural properties and personality. Like metal caught in the act of yielding to pressure, chocolate paused mid melt, or a stone whose imperfections show us how it came to be. In contrast to the idiosyncrasies of how a material likes to behave are perfectly round beads (thrown in the metal) or patterns made of repeated identical shapes (layered over the chocolates).

...enters a slight trance, almost religious, when she tastes her food.

...provided a description of art I like as it is so I'll just include it. "ok, they might come back to me slowly, since i am so un-inspired these days. for painters i like franz kline, his work can always make me cry if i stare long enough at it. all the emotion is in the brush stoke. also i love this one film called zen for film by Nam June Paik : http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/njpaik-zenforfilm.html you can't really watch in online, but you get the idea. it makes me laugh. In general I love japanese things which are wabi sabi over overdone, either way makes me feel funny inside. i love kimonos and other soft things. wait, artists..... stanley kubrick because his stuff is elegant and balanced. the royal tenenbaums because of the appreciation for old things and stuff that has been handed down - I love objects imbued with history. it's a very preppy aesthetic. also he uses a lot of pastels in contrast with brighter colors and leathery things. architecture i like the glass house in connecticutt by johnson because it is simple and something about the translucency also makes me feel funny inside, like playing house."