Saturday, June 30, 2007

abstract sun contrast

abstract sun contrast

it's my biggest painting yet, 1.2m x 1.5m, and i think this has to be the most comfortable size to work with. ^_^ it was due to for an office project earlier this week, but my dad and i found ourselves growing so fond of it that we decided to keep it at home.

said office project has been mainly occupying the bulk of my time since we got back from our trip and i find myself visiting art supplies and canvas shops almost everytime i leave the house, only to return carting back more paint, frames, flammable liquids, aerosol sprays, ink, canvas rolls, feathers, plastic toy eyes and jars of goop and other random items that i can buy under that broad umbrella of art. yes, i'm looking at stronger arms with all that weight-lifting. muahahaha.

as with the closing of the month of june, i am reminded that i have a month and a half left here in singapore. which means that about next week, starting on the coming monday, i should really begin brushing the dust off the 3D programs that i've left behind.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

inklings

rhizomes

art is a series of destructive acts. (which makes me think of tschumi's "To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder." huh!)

which really starts to make sense to me that everytime i encounter a perfectly beautiful and pristine piece of canvas or sheet of paper, i can barely bring myself to mar it... until i find a speck of impurity or macro-lens my way to the texture of the very fibres of the cloth itself... and find a start in a blemish.

it's a gamble, really. and when the painting sets me uneasy, something has to give in the risk of either improving the painting or completely destroying it. art starts with mistakes. there is no back-up and save to rely on. (hell, i wish there was)

so i tell myself recently. sod the wormholing behaviour. i've become more the demolition team than the architect these days. blackblack oils on blackbad ink. there is no canvas too sacred for me.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

i'm listening

i'm listening

for signs of life
in an ideological desert.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Magic Carpet Exhaustion

magic carpet exhaustion

she's so tired, of ala-kaazamming through the skies, legs cramped from sitting cross-legged, stiff back, crooked neck and aching joints... better to sleep a spell for a while now. maybe she'll get a broomstick sometime.


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home again and i can finally working on these photoshoot pictures i've had lying around my compy. it's funny how i like doing these mindless things so much more than anything else, but gaudi's roofscapes and miro's compositions are fast moving into my head with a more lucrative agenda, so no more nudies for now. until the next round. ^_<