you’re invited to MOOD RING ☆

a secret club by BIRU

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I bought it from Claire’s for five dollars- a worthy use of that week’s allowance. I still remember how the cool cheap metal felt when I slid it onto my finger.

I stepped out of the mall’s artificial light and into the golden hour sun. It was an evening in between summer and autumn. School was about to start, and although the sun still beat down relentlessly, there was a distinct chill in the air that felt like fall.

I held the ring up to the light and watched the glass sparkle. I felt my heart expand and contract as the hue shifted from deep emerald, to blood orange, to lapis lazuli.

Magic unfolding right before my eyes.

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My inner world is not stagnant, it is constantly in motion. MOOD RING is where that inner world is brought into the light and refracts under the sun. Every one of my experiences has its own hex code- an infinite number of shades exist within me.

Behind each one of my paintings are pages and pages of undiluted feeling. I've always turned to writing first to process my emotions, then to art to transform those feelings into something tangible and beautiful. Both mediums feed into each other. Both are integral to what BIRU is. To make art is to alchemize feeling. This is my work at its most charged.

I hope that reading my words gives you half of what writing them gave me.

Welcome to MOOD RING.