We are all called to create. Create art, create a technology, create a movement, create love, create babies. In fact, if you don’t create something to fill yourself, the void gets larger over time.
Why?
By creating, we get to see that we are unique from the product of the creation. It is then through this knowledge of our uniqueness that we start to make a little bit more sense of the what am I doing here question.
I spent a glorious day last Saturday with Hans and his nephew Chris at the beach, because he wanted to make a beach art work. 99% of kids loveee art, but when you get to adulthood only 10% of the population still practice art (so troublesome, gots to clean up the mess afterwards).
We used real sand to make the beach on his art piece and sometimes a part of me feels like saying, whattt how will you bring it home you’ll be sprinking sand all over your bag that’s going to be a real mess, and then again it’s truly a beautiful thing to put in effort to create something beautiful and that’s something you feel so proud of that you just want to show it to everyone.
I am extremeeely excited about The Great Gatsby. Loved the book, now I can’t wait to see it in motion pictures.
Penang, 2011. Like Singapore in 1970’s.
Trance dance in Bali. The ‘horseman’ is in a trance as he tramples on the hot ashes again and again.
I just came back from a short trip to Bali. Beautiful beautiful Bali… I wish I was back there. Because you can barely scratch the surface of this place with a mere few days.
Visiting Ubud was an incredible experience (the place where Eat Pray Love was filmed). Hinduism is the heartbeat. Little baskets of colourful flowers and food are placed on the sidewalks as offerings to be lifted up to the spirits. The Balinese people strive to attain harmony; In cooking, in the way they dress, and most importantly in the way they conduct themselves.
Beautiful Bali
Bali in the morning. Offerings made in gratitude.
I love EVERYTHING that Marion Cotillard’s character, Adriana, wore in Midnight in Paris. 3 outfits are too little..
You can’t really see it that clearly here, but you should see them here.
Some people knit blankets, but Olek crochet-bombs iconic fixtures in NYC.
Her artist statement that moved me:
A loop after a loop. Hour after hour my madness becomes crochet. Life and art are inseparable. The movies I watch while crocheting influence my work, and my work dictates the films I select. I crochet everything that enters my space. Sometimes it’s a text message, a medical report, found objects. There is the unraveling, the ephemeral part of my work that never lets me forget about the limited life of the art object and art concept. What do I intend to reveal? You have to pull the end of the yarn and unravel the story behind the crochet.
Sweet sounds for you and I: Something About us by Daft Punk (Psymbionic Remix)
I’m baffled. It’s now apparently cool to have different colour hair roots! From Mulberry Spring 2012.
Little India is one of those places within Singapore which I sometimes go to when I feel like getting away from Singapore. They seem to operate on a completely different system.
There’s the beer garden which is lovely. Everyone’s sipping on this drink in a paper cup. Ming and I bought ourselves a vadai and that papercupped drink each immediately to localize and assimilate… When he left me for 2 minutes to look for a toilet, our table was attacked by a least 20 pigeons.
We spoke to an old man who has grown his own chilli plant in a little grass patch within a carpark. Next to his chilli plant is a medicinal plant which belongs to someone else.
The sun set, we sat at a coffee shop. People around us broke fast, and we noticed an inconspicuous stall that sold cigarettes by the stick. It is not advertised, but people know it by the word-of-mouth.
