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Friday, November 12, 2010

Blood is thicker than Water



My work here by the same title is a reference to a fight within me and us, where we want to lose our identity ...but our past always hold on..Blood is thicker than water !

Multiple Perspectives- Vishwanath




look at this image closely and find two perspectives within the same space,art by Vishwanath

What Art means to Vatsala Goel !

The meaning of ART as I see it.

I find solace in looking at this whole situation clinically – as a germ that holds potential for cure and therapy.

Let it be. Let’s begin this way. Let it be.

Just like a mathematician finds math uniformly across the entire universe, in every deed, and a physicist applies physics to every occurrence, so does the so called artist – in every act of being – such as the art of sleeping – or the art of cooking – or that of gardening – or conversation – here it becomes a verb understanding. However, to me, art is all and all is art – just such as all has math and biology and physics – to me art is just another of mankind’s means of making sense of life and vacuum and the cosmos.

To me, art is the natural rhythm of existence as the creators of this world bestowed upon us from time zero or shoonya.

Art is in every tangible particle suspended in the spheres and held down by gravity. It is the rhythm of heartbeat instilled in animals since their conception in the womb or in the egg.

It is in the persistent rhythm in which the flora draws nutrition from the earth and the sky.

Art is in the variance between everything existent and suspended in the space particle. Art is that essence or substance which makes (the chair, the pebble, the flower, a cloud, a bean, a child, a pea, a pearl, an old grandfather – each unique from each other) every thing earthly and celestial unique.

Art is the nature of existence – It is in the curves, flatness, surfaces, shapes, shadows, the lit and the unlit, spoken and silent, persistent, and the withdrawn, gradual and the sudden.

It is in knowing that one must begin and in the ability to listen to the self when it asks you to stop.

Art for me is the knowing and the unknowing.

-- Vatsala Goel
Calcutta
12th November, 2010

(Student, PGD Cinematography, Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune India)

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Karen Castillo - Poetry of Waves



Sensing it coming up behind her, she paddles. She paddles with all her might. She paddles for her dear life. Then feeling the ton of water lapping at her feet, the board picking up speed, she holds on. She holds on for dear life. She sees the drop, and stands, riding the wave into the shore. She forgets the fear, the weight of the water wall behind her, the wind in her hair. The details shift into the center. This is the communion between man and god. This is yoga.

The fear came in waves. First, soft and gentle waves. They rolled steadily in. As the tide of her heart rose, so did the height of each wave. As her emotions became more fierce, so did the crash of each new wave, an onslaught of anger, sadness, anxiety, hate. She was drowning, torn up...

Today the water is glassy. So different after the torrents swept through the village, grabbing at anything that is not bolted to the ground. The waves were like hundreds of grabbing giant hands. So different now with its head high wave peeling across the break, a perfect tube, a vortex in which troubles are lost and forgotten.

-kaz castillo

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Naïve realism


Naïve realism also known as Direct Realism or common sense realism, is a common sense theory of perception.

"Naïve realism claims that the world is pretty much as common sense would have it. All objects composed of matter, they occupy space, and have properties such as size, shape, texture, smell, taste and colour. These properties are usually perceived . So, when we look at and touch things we see and feel those things directly, and so perceive them as they really are. Objects continue to obey the laws of physics and retain all their properties whether or not there is anyone present to observe them doing so."

( art found in the CAVA campus, naive realism source- Wikipedia)

Friday, November 5, 2010

Waves and Motions









She says waves are a symbol of sexual--what was it again? energy? frustration? fantasy? ennui? Everything comes in waves, like sounds, or emotions, or the water lapping at the seaside, the tangible and the intangible. Someone yesterday said that we are mostly vibrations. That sounds right. We must be so: hundreds of thousands of small and big Richter lines, an unending ebb and flow.

Waves are like fluffy white clouds, only more wet, potentially more painful, depending on its size and impact.

Waves are nature's artists. They are sculptors, contemporary artists, carving out the face of the future. They are tempermental, tempestuous tortured souls, Picassos and Hemmingways creating and wreaking havoc.

( Poetry by Kaz Castillo , Artwork Collaboration by Claudia & me .
Why do I put it in brackets though ? I guess as Benthin once painted a work and titled it " in brackets we say the essential things. " i do the same too
A few days back i met Claudia a Swedish artist who has been working in the Phillipines , and Kaz Costillo a writer and Poetess (only in India is a female poet a poetess !) who grew up in the U.S and is now staying in Boracey. we instantly hit it off and wanted to collaborate on some work..this is what happened..paintings ....poetry..it was really nice )

Thursday, November 4, 2010

What Art Means to Sidney Huang

well, like, it's not one thing. you see, the art, well do you see it? we talk about it in seeing language but maybe it's not just seeing, eh man? dude! but art, it's one thing when we talk about making art but sometimes it's a different thing when we see it, when we consume it. like pornography in either case we know it when we see it. art! YEAH!

sometimes it's just craft, artifice, something that is well-made. or it can be something that is found that manages to express to us the similar qualitites of refinement or, alternatively, of power. or of both. it communicates without there being any necessary intentional connection between the maker and audience. it can be something about the craft, the material, the quality of the mimesis or representation if any, or just the message conveyed. and it can be the interplay and the reciprocity from these elements.

the only common thread perhaps, when we're dealing with human art maybe is the quality of mind involved. not necessarily in the production or creation or in the consumption, but somewhere in there. awareness is heightened. attention is provoked or manipulated, sometimes there is wonder. but always awareness is vital!

well we should probably draw a few artificial distinctions here and there. let the traditionalists have some say too. just because one guy can have a spiritual experience in a dungheap shouldn't mean there's any art there, outside of his experience itself maybe, and we don't mean, well I don't mean, maybe some people do, something that's purely subjective when we talk about art. we talk about things! art is things!

( this is what art means to Sidney Huang , Sidney has studied Divinity at The Univeristy of Chicago and is a good egg )

The Hokusai Wave will emerge stronger









Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Nature as a revelation of God



Nature is a revelation of God: Art, a revelation of man....Art pre- exists in nature, and nature is reproduced in art.
--Longefellow

( excerpts from the book, art: the dark side by n.e.sjoman .Painting by Yogananda..a copy work with some color variations and additional features of the landscape by Ivan Shishkin)

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Tradition in Art ,Mysore Style











Girija M is a well known l Mysore style painter , a style which encompasses Hindu Deities in an ornate gold leaf pattern .I am in a process presently where I have used the modernist canvases by Benthin as an abstraction of a background with these traditional deities on the foreground. These ideas of art works developed over long conversations with Girijaji and Kumarji her husband, who is a known appreciator of the arts . It occured to me during our conversations that what art meant to people could be an art project itself, im hereby starting these views of " what is art "?

What is Art
According to Indian traditional thinking,
Art connotes the soul to achieve the aims;
That which frees mind from evil thoughts
And also which enfolds the basic structure
And beauty. It connotes the features which
Does not clash with the true nature of objects.

k.r Kumar