A distinct feature of the experimental avant-garde scene is to bring innovation and thought provoking discussion into our lives through the power of, but not limited to, art. This is normally a well kept secret, in a way to keep the conformists out of the scene, but for those of you that have yet to expand your mind I will let you in on this exclusive preview: once you have opened your fourth eye, you begin to have thought provoking thoughts about your thoughts. In simpler terms, you think about what you think about. While it IS in fact possible to do this without enlightening yourself, the opening of a fourth eye would be the most efficient way to achieve this. Our artist of the day, Juniper “The Skeptical Skeptic” Uranda, is the most skeptical conspiracy theorist I know. However, she is not A skeptical conspiracy theorist, but is skeptical about the conspiracies themselves.

During her formative years, Uranda’s parents would often let her in on little known secrets easily obtainable on the internet, such as Elvis faking his fake death or the government’s holographic moon in place of a real one. While these may seem a little ridiculous, Uranda was at a young age and fed these ideas by her parents, who were her most influential people at the time; she believed that her parent’s word was law and that nothing they could ever do would be wrong. However, once Uranda reached the age of 16, she discovered that her parents had been lying to her for her entire life: there was no Santa Claus. Uranda realized the silliness of a magical man that delivered gifts when her peers began mocking her and she had no clue what to believe in. Once she confronted her parents they explained to her that it’s exactly what the brainwashed corporate population wants you to believe in order to distract us from the president’s plans to vaporize the nation. It was at this moment she realized that her entire life could’ve been built on false info and she began to contemplate how she viewed the world around her.

For the next couple of years that Uranda lived with her parents she questioned everything they told her relentlessly, including difficult topics like if the Berlin wall really existed or if dinner was actually ready. Before her revelation, Uranda’s parents were the two people she could always come to, but once she realized how ridiculous everything they believed in was she decided to harness her emotions into something productive: the truest form of art. While she is still relatively new in the scene I have seen a few of her works in progress and I’ve got to say, this is an artist you need to put on your radar. Here’s her most recent piece, portraying her raw emotions in life, titled They Might Be Out To Get Us.

This photo shows Uranda’s true feelings in life; being trapped in a corner by two completely different walls and stuck in a stand because she’s an inanimate object (metaphorically (maybe?)). Though she is new to the scene and has yet to open her fifth eye, there is much promise in all forms of her art, as she plans to expand into music production and Gothic puppet theater.