May we see with new eyes, each old thing, each known thing.
The license to be
July 19, 2021
July 2021. Building a three stone ring. Sometimes it gets boring building something that is a ‘classic’. But the challenge I think is this: how do I make this what it should be, and what defies? Can you see the white in the cornflower blue? and the blue in the near flawless moonstones? The idea of working the silk in natural stones to the innate contrast between them. The Window, completed April 2021. Started over six months ago. Don’t forget what you are meant to do One window against another This is a strange, big ring. There are no central stones, just the window you keep checking to see what …
October 2020
October 25, 2020
Loving the sea in your head is not the same thing as loving the sea One of these photos is not mine. Another reason why we two are so different. October is on its last dregs. This month I am reading Roald Dahl. Reading him today is not the same as reading him when you …
Can I Define A Surprise
July 22, 2020
Peter Cat Recording Company Karan Singh Suryakant Sawhney Kartik S Pillai Rohan Kulshreshtha Live Sound engineer – Anshuman Mishra Mixed & mastered by Kartik S Pilai Last night, we had palak paneer from downstairs our studio. What looks like an eclectic (eclecticism has run amok) bigger hole in the wall, run by three quiet Indians …
July’s Languor
July 12, 2020
The pain of boxes unopened, on a table blessed with space Human kind can not bear very much reality – T.S. Eliot One work delivered. This one inspired by thoughts of old palaces and the zither One work waiting. This inspired by high windowed lofts and Laotian temples July started on a high, after June’s lessons. It …
June 2020 Mercury Retrograde
July 2, 2020
The revival of World Savage. Every space we move to we would only know if it is right by the lights that go up, and the lamps we keep our light on. All five lamps here belong to Malaya or Singapore, a history made precious by how it is reimagined or forgotten day by day. …
Villainy Films & Books, “The PRO”
May 5, 2020
Villainy Films & Books I want to watch in this lifetime.
We Lost The Sea
April 15, 2020
April is the cruelest month. It is not for me, but I know it is for many. If not cartoons, then the music that we can get lost in. The record store that is no longer there, but in that one memory that plays itself. Keep on keeping on. Departure Songs is inspired by failed, …