“Artist. Poet. Storysmith. Still learning, always wondering.”
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🪶 Introduction
Hi, I’m Cyan Los.
I’ve been an artist for years—dabbling across disciplines, accumulating a mix of adjacent skills along the way. My interests are scattered and ever-evolving, and I often find myself deep-diving into art and media far more than necessary—because analyzing, admiring, and critiquing creative work isn’t just a habit; it’s a passion.
This site began as a portfolio. But somewhere along the way, I realized it could be something more—a space not just to display my work, but to share my thoughts, explorations, and obsessions, and even celebrating art from the greats. Because creating in isolation is one thing. Creating in conversation? That’s the good stuff.
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
🎨 Creative Journey
Over the years, I’ve worked across illustration, animation, 3D modeling, motion graphics, architectural visualization, and story direction. I’ve never followed a straight path—and while that makes me a jack-of-many-trades (and, yes, master of none), the perspectives I’ve gained along the way are irreplaceable.
My work moves slowly at times, but always with intention. I create, I analyze, and I explore across mediums, including poetry. And while I know specialization is often preferred, curiosity has led me to skills I never expected—like learning to build this website from scratch with Hugo, TailwindCSS, and DaisyUI. Not bad for a non–web developer.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein
📚 Philosophy & Passion
At the heart of everything I do is a love for stories. I write them. I draw them. I celebrate them. Stories carry more than just emotion beyond words, more than even experiences. They’re how we connect, how we remember, how we understand, not only each other but also our past, present and future. Like the old adage says: people may forget what you said, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.
“Narrative imagining — story — is the fundamental instrument of thought. Rational capacities depend upon it. It is our chief means of looking into the future, or predicting, of planning, and of explaining.”
— Mark Turner, cognitive scientist, linguist, and author
🔆 What’s with the name?
People have joked that my name should’ve been Los Cianes or El Cyan—sure, it might roll off the tongue more naturally and accurately in Spanish. But the “Los” in my name isn’t linguistic—it’s mythic. It’s a nod to William Blake’s Los, the fallen form of Urthona—the eternal prophet and cosmic blacksmith who forged Golgonooza, the city of imagination, where the beating of his hammer echoed the heartbeat of humanity.
That imagery stuck with me. I may not be influential, wealthy, or legendary, but maybe I can help others forge a metaphorical Golgonooza—especially here in India, where the pursuit of excellence in art and science deserves a renewed kind of reverence. This is, after all, the land of Saraswati.
I’ve always been fascinated by and deeply reverent of the divine figures behind creation—Saraswati, goddess of wisdom; Shiva, lord of cosmic rhythm; Vishvakarma, architect of the universe. And Los, the inversion of Sol, becomes a Sun figure like Surya who shapes life within the material world. To create, to learn, to illuminate: these aren’t just spiritual pursuits, they’re our sacred duty. Artists, like scientists, carry the torch of knowledge forward—lighting the way for those who follow, just as we walk in the glow of those who came before.
As for Cyan? That’s just my favorite color. Not everything needs a lore.
“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”
— Rabindranath Tagore