There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror

that reflects it - Edith Wharton

SOUTH BANK, WATERLOO, LONDON

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Picture taken in NOTTINGHAM, Jan 2011

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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

PAUL KLEE

Picture taken at

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART

SCULPTURE DEPARTMENT

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A thin strip bearing a systematic orchestration of primary pigments seized my attention as I jaunted from the first array of exhibits onto the subsequent ones in the reminiscing excursion within the confines of my mind. An intriguing ensemble of geometry interspersed with lifelike human forms compelled me to walk in the direction of this depiction. On observing the artwork closely, surprisingly enough and very contrary to my conjecture of gaining clarity, it only heightened the intensity of my perplexities.

Visually, it was most definitely an unusual delight. The colours vs the monotones, the abstract vs the representational, the fragmentation, the scale, the coherent, the elusive and yet kosher textures characterised these objets d’art.

Inspirational would be an understatement and concealing the ‘trivial’ness that I experienced, a pure denial - a non-confession.
How could they? They managed to unsettle my anchored poise within an infinitesimal span of a month. How on earth did they generate all that they did? How did they make so much and such good ‘so much’! What were they made up of? How did they live? What were their minds like? They ! The ‘them’ who are accountable for having brandished my mental composure. The Glasgow boys, Stephen Farthing, the Shadow Catchers, the Turner prize contenders, Rachel Whiteread, Eadweard Muybridge, Gauguin, Ai Weiwei, the British Artists at the Saatchi Gallery and Damien Ortega of course.

I felt insignificant. Insignificance doled out of gigantism, partially. The Humongous scale, possibly. Geniuses emanating from independence, persistence, perseverance and passion, most definitely.The word 'distraction' did not seem to exist in their lexicon. Their existence seemed to spur around an invincible hunger to create.

As I reflect upon the previous month in London, a sentence from ADAM FUSS' colloquy (Shadow Catchers at V&A) supremely reverberates,

'You don't create. You are not creative. You Die. It is about survival really'

Picture within picture (bottom left) credit : SAMEER KULAVOOR

THE 'HARLEQUIN'ed QUEEN

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake

THE ORIGIN AND THE DESTINATION

Inherent or innate, perhaps conditioned or acquired,

the environment, the repetition, the cause of conditioned spontaneity.

They emerge.

The pen touches the paper and there is a sort of self emergence or self organization.

The two curves start to shape themselves cradling the bigger curve which surfaces almost from nowhere,

the moon manifests itself nesting the sun.

It flows. It isn’t me.

But it is a part of me.

It is my inspiration.

THIS MORNING ...

THE SIGN ...

THE TRAIL ...

TURN YOUR FACE TO THE SUN AND THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU

MAORI PROVERB