Art www.qns.com i LIC COURIER i March 2017 23 “They discovered we have two different sensors in the brain to appreciate beauty and ugliness,” he said. “So I’m always trying to cause a sensation. The brain relishes somehow discovering what’s in the painting more than what is completely obvious. I am always trying to do things which are more suggestive.” Carlos Seidler said he has learned a lot by working with his daughter and tries to tap into his inner child while painting. Children, he said, make art without caring what other people think. “I learned from her not to be afraid of anything that you want in life because especially when she was younger she would get a pen and paper, draw something and it was amazing and beautiful she didn’t even think about it,” he said. “Children just draw and they are happy and it’s beautiful so this is what I learned from her, which I still haven’t mastered. I am still in the process of becoming free again and it’s not easy sometimes.” The duo has shown their paintings at the LIC Arts Open but have mostly kept their hundreds of paintings at home. Carlos Seidler said he’s had no desire to sell the paintings, especially the ones by Aliyah Seidler, but is thinking about it since they now have so many. On April 1, a few of their paintings will hang from Into White Dental, a dental office at 47-43 Vernon Blvd. Dentist Steven Mantinaos has been showcasing artwork from local artists in his office for years. After a cleaning, Carlos Seidler gave Mantinaos a painting depicting one of his figures with one tooth and the words “Don’t wait until the last tooth to visit your dentist.” Mantinaos enjoyed it and now the Seidlers’ paintings will hang in his waiting room for one month. Carlos and Aliyah Seidler expect to be working together for a long time. Though Aliyah Seidler does not want to pursue art as a career, she said she knows she and her father will continue to learn from each other. “What I learned from my father is just determination and creativity,” she said. “Like the use of color because I’ve seen other artists and I’ve never seen so many colors together and each painting, although they look chaotic in a way, if you look in detail they look really organized and neat and I like that about him.”
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