welcome!

Hello! Welcome to this new blog. I just finished importing all of the posts from my old site onto this new one. There were a couple of reasons why I wanted to change my blog from "the esthetician" site. First of all, I didn't really like the name "the esthetician." I thought it sounded kind of pretentious, as if I assumed that I was THE authority on all aesthetic matters (which is not true). Second, I didn't like that the discussion of art and aesthetics was constantly getting confused with makeup and hair design. Originally, I was trying to be creative by choosing a more archaic spelling of the word "aesthetic" and I didn't even think that it would get confused with esthetic beauty care. And third, it didn't make sense to have a blog title/description about art since today I created a different blog for all of my art history posts.

Hence, the change was made.

I don't think that I'm going to keep such a crazy-long link list on the side of my blog, particularly since I read all of my favorite blogs through Google Reader. However, if you are trying to increase traffic on your blog and would prefer that I post your link, I'd be happy to do so. Just comment on this post and let me know.

If you're curious about the title of this blog, it is a reference to an art installation that J made when he was in London on a study abroad. We were dating at the time, but I was in Provo while J was overseas. At the time, I was rather obsessed with the color lime green. For one of his art projects, J decided to make an installation of green apples around London for me. He scattered the apples across the street, in the subway, and in other locations around the city. The apples were a visual indication that J thought about me wherever he walked. I'm quite proud of the fact that I inspired an art installation throughout London. You can see some photographs of the apple installation here.