If you please everybody, you please nobody. If I please nobody, results the same and it’s absolutely no work.
While listening to the music and watching everything happen in reality, I can't believe it's the same as the person I imagined in my dream.
I didn't plan to record my feelings.
But as soon as I woke up, realising that the reality has been all set, what I hadn't imagined was actually happening in front of me.
It wasn't an accident. I was thinking, how could this happen?
So I drew a picture of the state of mind and the filter, just to make myself laugh, and to make the screws in my head a little less loose.
Soundtrack: “Angels Sing” by Brandon Ho (Ghoststyle)
Didn’t cha know my visual language? Always double. One She-ro, one he-ro.
Enjoy, Relax, Dance, Touch each other, Flirt, Wonder, Feel, Muse, Sing, Listen, Talk, Ask, Look, Communicate, Create, Play
Nature abhors vacuum. Everything is made perfectly abundant for us.
I always feel black women’s skin colour should be sweetly described as chocolate and brown sugar; all women’s power should be seen as an epitome of light, sensuality and gentleness - tender, love and dove. What do you need to know but her inner mystery? If only you could know but my heart.
Soundtrack: “Don’t Cha Know” by Erykah Badu
Things I have found myself most in were less about literary, more deeply anchored inside my being. By drawing I can record the way other people are more profoundly. Also the way I am. The way I am above all. My tool through which to understand the world. It helps me return to life with a deeper awareness.
The Anima is the unconscious feminine side of a man, and the Animus the unconscious male side of a woman.
They consist of what has been “rejected” by consciousness in forming the personality.
We seek this “missing part” of our self in relationships with the opposite sex.
Relationships tend to last until a critical attitude develops - when the partner does not match up to this inner ideal. To my belief our “ideal relationship” is found within oneself. This work is a representation of the dynamics involved in our mind.
Sometimes your family feels the farthest of all.
When you decided to make changes, life could be like walking alone through a dark tunnel sometimes. But you didn’t know that it would be this dark. You didn’t know… that it would be this lonely.
“How much farther… how much farther do I need to go?”
At that moment, you just wanted to rest your thoughts, somewhere to lie down. Even it was in a hole, or in a pit. Wherever, you just wanted to be at peace, feel like home.
At the end of the tunnel, there must be light. Things come, and things go. I believe when something goes, it is only to make room for something new and better.
You’re not alone, I’m just taking you to the next level and something some people can’t go with you.
You have something you’re born with where environment cannot change, you are the nature. But environment can change you into something you feel naturally abundant and alive.
Words that construct pentagons are:
1-100th God loves you.
101-200th Love makes the world go round.
201-250th Peace sometimes looks like not
over-explaining yourself.
251-300th Feeling good is prosperity.
The rest of I accept all the good to flow into my life. Do not criticise yourself. I choose happy thoughts. I can do it and I can feel good about myself. I refuse to be helpless.
What if forever isn’t a measure for good?
What if impermanence marks something even more previous?
There’s always a worry in the back of my mind, since I can’t get rid of my anxious nature, I'd better start doing something about it. I’d better start doing it first.
The love that you sow will grow and grow and grow.
Differences in appearance & habits are not deviations, but variations that enrich life.
During airport transits, I include all of the people I saw at the queue in my drawing.
Despierta (Wake up, to life, to all) Momento Vivere! (Remember Life)
Life has the expectation of looking through the waters of the fall, there will also be unexpected joy. Anytime good may not be the best, bad may not be bad, the day is part of the dance. Giving is a matter of heart, don't say it is a matter of wealth.
The door to my heart is very small, but it'll open for you who truly accept and see me as who I am. I am thankful.
Soundtrack: “Um Abraço No Bonfá” by João Gilberto
The world is a subjective creation
If my art can be said to have a personality, it is because it was inspired by nature, of which I was merely the humble interpreter. I have to create a sun, a vibe, a space in which I could live carefreely, and recreate myself. This is my reason for every artwork.
Look carefully around the sun, I fill it with words, replete with details linking the epicenter of universe with my own vocabularies.
All is just your own self reflection
Everything you're looking at is also you.I did it over a period of a few months. Just really painting one corner into a frenzy every now and then.
I desire to paint and complete before a full moon. I like to go wild before a full moon. Then I like to do sth myself into blind oblivion on a full moon. Sometimes I sit somewhere all day.
This time just hearing the sound of water, dogs Maru & Lady talking, baby Asta mambling. Feel whole and complete.
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Genesis 1:1-3
Nature is the greatest influencer as it goes hand in hand with God, its creator. He makes our lives into something good. Inspired by Sagrada Familia, the pattern of this painting is not symmetrical. I painted it without a ruler. Beyond Gaudi’s combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau concept, there is barely a straight line or symmetrical figure in the whole construct, because the gothic architecture does not strive for symmetry. I’d wish you, my dear art lovers, to focus on the vivid colours on these beautiful stained glass windows as they represent the healing power of nature.
Chopsticks are used for eating in HK. People eat for survival. I use it as medium for this artwork to indicate that I create for survival. I try to figure a way to record my feeling. What is next? I create in hope of bringing my spiritual to a higher level.
Before mind is fulfilled, one has to go through miseries, and then step into pleasure.
One must be free from fear.
An honest conversation makes us feel connected. The same deep connection with ourselves is possible by wholly accepting who we are and acknowledge our pain. Let it surface and spill over. Give ourselves permission to make an uncomfortable mess. Healing can happen, so can emotional free
This artwork is influenced by my tumultuous relationships and personal journey through love and loss. The fluid-like paint indicates quick impermanence of life.
I was listening to 'You've Got a Friend’by Carole King as I was creating. I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend. The occasional void in relationships remind me that the presence of friends can be just as important as family.
Can we meet and fall in love over four days of the year? What is the best season to fall in love? Are you ready to embrace the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons.
People where you live, grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don’t find what they’re
looking for... yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose , or a little water...
Wabi-sabi (Japanese: 侘び寂び Wabi-sabi) is a traditional Japanese aesthetic centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The beauty of wabi-sabi is sometimes described as imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. The concept of wabi-sabi is derived from the Buddhist Three Dharma Seals of impermanence, suffering and emptiness. Characteristics of wabi-sabi include asymmetry, roughness or irregularity, simplicity, economy, understatement, intimacy, and display of natural integrity.
While we usually say birth is good, and we’re happy when a baby is born, birth is the cause for the aging, sickness, and death. If you think about it it’s kind of peculiar that we celebrate the cause which brings aging, sickness, and death as a result.
So how to be free of the fear of aging, sickness and death? Aging: genuine youth is in your heart.
Sickness: the body is giving you sign of redirecting your life.
Death: be present, cherish the power of now, understand the concept of impermanence.
The white line in the middle represents love. It is laceration, it never is under control. It happens accidentally, in a single flashing, in a heartbeat. The line changes the whole atmosphere of this work of art. Love changes the way we see things. Love happens in a throbbing moment.
The word Lego comes from Danish word leggodt, which means play well, i.e. play well, have fun.
Words at the background comprises a few thoughts I had when I was in Japan during winter. They include:
1. Look at me
2. Follow your heart
3. Be a giver
4. Hug
5. Time will tell
6. As above so below as within so without (This phrase is an ancient alchemical view of the
universe.)
7. Knowledge is power love is blind
You have to be aware of your desires to face yourself.
自分の心の励みに毎日の中で役立てて下さい
(I can only give more of myself if I give more to myself)
May you see this in daily life and use it to encourage your own spirit.
All I need is a little sun, some for me some for evertone. All I need is a little air. Some for me some for everyone. Little bit of love - Song “Little Bit Of Love” by Jack Johnson
All I need is a little bit of love. Some for myself and some for everyone.
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea… All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The thing about humans and our pursuit of happiness as it’s portrayed by Nikos Kazantzakis is, we’re looking way too far and hard for something that may have already been in front of us all this time. When we’re young, we’re always itching to get older because we always search for our happiness as though it’s something that only exists in the future. However, every time we reminisced our “younger” days, the scenes we imagine would always be coloured as though they’re being seen through rose-coloured glasses. This implies that ultimately, those times in the past might have been the happiest we have had - we just never recognized it.