26 November 2011
Life in a day ...
... is a documentary by all of us, with its mundaneness, its eccentricities, its brokenness, its joys, in our gloriously dazzlingly colourful world ... I was talking to someone about culture the other day, and she did not think that it can ever be a barrier for us to understanding someone wholly as we are all humans at the end of the day, with its hopes, dreams, fears and disappointments ... An interesting finding from "Life in a day" is that there was a lot of clips with watermelons being sent in, even food unites us too ...
13 November 2011
1Q84 ...
... is the latest offering from Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author for adolescent me. It has been nearly a decade since I last read any of his books, partly because of the potentiality of being disappointed. I am incapable of revisiting beloved people/places/events after a period of absence, but therapy has slowly taught me the beauty of memories and the expansiveness of human capacities. As Haruki Murakami said in "1Q84" - "That's what the world is, after all, an endless battle of contrasting memories" ..
04 November 2011
Grey ....
... as described by Gerhard Richter in "From a letter to Edy de Wilde" ,,,,
" Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour."
In his exhibition at the Tate Modern (Panorma), his "Seascape" and "Betty" are two paintings which resonate with me a lot ... The latter reminds me a lot of "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth at the MOMA.
" Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour."
In his exhibition at the Tate Modern (Panorma), his "Seascape" and "Betty" are two paintings which resonate with me a lot ... The latter reminds me a lot of "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth at the MOMA.
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