Ever had one of those days where everything seems to be going wrong?  Well, today was my day.

It started out early this morning with a migraine. I could hardly sleep with the nauseating pain and I was really counting on a good night’s sleep since my energy seems to be missing in action lately.Everything went downhill ever since.

Here’s some math for you…

Sleepless Night + Soniei + A Pinch of Migraine Leftovers = Miss Grumpy Pants

My day was so bad that I was thinking, “I’m gone to bed. I can’t deal with today anymore”. Satisfied with my decision, I got up from my desk and accidentally spilled a glass of water all over my Japanese lesson notes. Nice. Great. Terrific. After I cleaned up the mess, I was on my way to crawl into bed and hide from today for awhile.

On my way to the bedroom, I saw my cat (Steve) in the living room. He was on the love seat, next to the window. So, of course, I had to go cuddle him like crazy before I hid from life.

I saw the sunset; an orange glow in the sky. It was pretty, but my mindset was stuck on “What the f-ever. I hate life right now”. Seriously, I was that grumpy. My only cure out of it was to catch up on sleep.

However, next thing I knew I was in a daze, staring at the sun. I started daydreaming. To be honest, I don’t even know what I was daydreaming about. It wasn’t about anything in particular. I was just daydreaming; probably about hot men. All I know is that I wasn’t in my life anymore.

Then my other cat (Loki) decided to bite Steve’s tail and I snapped out of it.

I felt much better. Miraculously, I wasn’t Miss Grumpy Pants anymore. I’m not saying that you could have compared me with Buddha, but I felt much better than before the daydreaming. So, instead of crawling into bed, I had black tea to keep my energy levels up and I painted all evening and night.

The Art

I painted the sun and added the Japanese kanji for Seika (sacred fire) because that’s how I felt about the sun at the moment since it turned me into Miss Grumpy Pants to Soniei, the artist. I mean, that’s a miracle, right there.

I decided to paint black and grey bamboo, to represent my negative mood. I added a touch of green in the back of the grey to represent the turning of my mood… the leaves going from grey to green representing Miss Grumpy Pants turning into Miss Happier Pants.

Or, maybe I should say this painting symbolizes negative emotions turning into positive ones by the simple act of being captivated by mundane things, like the sacred fire in the sky.

K… I’m gone to bed now.

Here’s a video of me, Soniei, trying to explain the evolution of my art and the inspiration behind my contemporary paintings.

This video includes a brief explanation of how I left the 9-5 work world to live my dream as a full-time artist.

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