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25/10/2022

Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imagin...

25/10/2022

25/10/2022

“The Dalí was not at all what I’d imagined,” said Allen, describing the experience of looking at the work at home after checking the work’s certificate of authenticity. “But compared to the other renditions of The Oak and the Reed, this one is certainly my favorite.”

Allen’s interest in the auction was first piqued by the sale of an untitled Klimt sketch that’s “a bit of a precursor to The Kiss,” a work she also purchased. It was the first time she’d ever bid on work at auction with her curiosity in art history stemming from an “interest in human expression, but also what we prescribe value to—it’s a little petri dish of understanding how society was at a certain point in time.”

For now, Allen intends to hold on to the piece, though as she jokes in one TikTok video, anyone with “funny money or who wants to turn it into an NFT and sell it for two million dollars, let me know.”



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25/10/2022

A 28-Year-Old Who Unexpectedly Won a Dalí Etching at Auction for $4,000 Has Gone Viral With Her Rueful TikTok Video About It
The 1974 work by the Spanish surrealist was expected to sell for $15,000.

Richard Whiddington, October 24, 2022

Tiktoker Danielle Allen buys Dali etching
Salvador Dalí, The Oak and the Reed, (1974). Courtesy of Danielle Allen
A spontaneous decision to turn off the highway and check out an art auction led to the purchase of a lifetime for 28-year-old Colorado resident Danielle Allen.

After watching lots sell for up to $100,000 at a Global Art Auction USA event, Allen, an entrepreneur, firefighter and self-described Renaissance woman, “just wanted to raise a hand” and promptly did so on Salvador Dalí’s The Oak and the Reed. The 1974 etching by the Spanish Surrealist was expected to sell for $15,000, but her bid of $4,000—which she placed as a lark—was unsurpassed. This was not a wholly welcome surprise for Allen, who had not intended to actually buy the piece.

Allen reenacted the drama of her winning bid in a trio of TikTok videos, the first of which has been viewed 3.3 million times. Allen, a newcomer to the app, had only uploaded a handful of videos before her viral moment. “I needed other people to laugh at my misfortunes so I wouldn’t feel so silly,” she told Artnet News, before adding, “I mainly wanted to share it with my family.”

Dalí is one of several prominent artists including Marc Chagall and Gustave Doré to have depicted Jean de la Fontaine’s 17th-century fable which imparts the importance of being flexible and not obstinate. But, as Allen noted, the Spaniard “does the Dalí thing with it,” turning the oak into a withering man and including details such as a horse and buggy.

23/10/2022

During adolescence, you may discover new parts of your identity and change who you think you are1, but most adults eventually settle into a more stable way of being. On the one hand, the idea of stability is reassuring. The brain is not particularly fond of change2. Yet, this stability may lead to a more “frozen” identity that limits your capabilities and life.

In September 2022, psychiatrist Lawrence Fischman explained that therapists notice that when people use psychedelics under supervision, they develop new beliefs about themselves and the world3. They have a more intense feeling of knowing and being known. The brain activity usually constrained in normal waking consciousness—to manage the complexity of interactions of the 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections—suddenly changes. And psychedelics challenge the status quo by inducing a state of brain entropy (disorder) during which users experience a transient shift in how they see themselves and the rest of the world4. Commonly, people return to normal waking consciousness with a renewed understanding of who they are.

“Who you are” is synonymous with the “ego”—the sense that your identity is fixed, integrated, and immutable. Yet, as psychedelic research indicates, your identity is likely far less fixed than you may believe. Indeed, interrogating this fixedness may yield many psychological and physical benefits.

The psychological benefits of ego dissolution
The thought of dissolving your ego may be petrifying due to the very real threat of psychosis5. Still,there are situations in which ego-dissolution leads to a transcendent state in which you feel a greater state of connectedness, and you unlock yourself from a world of fixed probabilities to one of possibilities6.

This freedom to be someone else—to be someone other than who you thought you were—can be very healing indeed. Studies indicate that psychedelics may relieve anxiety7 and depression and enhance an overall sense of emotional wellbeing8. In addition, other ego-dissolving methods such as transcendental meditation (TM) may decrease anxiety and stress9, and group virtual reality (VR) experiences are similar to psychedelics in leading to ego-dissolution10allowing people to feel more connected to one another. Indeed, in VR, when an illusory self takes on a primary experience of the virtual world, the self is divided into your actual self, and the one in VR, and the calming of the illusory self can transfer to your actual self too 11.