Left Brain Artists
Alcohol ink drawings (and few photos) This series of alcohol ink drawings was made by Hung to cheer me up in the aftermath of my unfortunate fall and ankle fracture while in Cuba trying to soak up some sun ahead of the Canadian winter. In a life-changing split second, I ended up stuck for 10 […]
Women collage artists This time around, we are blogging about ‘wimmin’ with magical powers. ‘Wimmin‘ ??? A femme-like creatures intertwined with botanical worlds, from a natural history of fairies, of course. ‘Wimmin’ are out-wordly beings from another universe, symbiotic with plants, morphed into their germination and reproduction – a world where the co-existing species in […]
Surrealism and collages of Jasmine Kukic My first serious attraction to art was surrealism. Andre Breton’s manifesto, Marcelle Duchamp, da-da, Chirico, Dali, of course – a young soul searching for the identity in subconscious, mysterious, illogical, defying ‘prescribed, ordinary, routine’. The attraction never stopped since then – only recently, though, I realized that it was […]
Gel plate prints of drawings Recently, while browsing through the Museum of Archeology in Montreal, we stumbled upon the book ‘..of Horses and Man’ – much about warriors and conquerors and art representations of their glory. Mounted on horses, swords thrusting victoriously… It was a cunning coincidence, as we were in the process of assembling a […]
Mind filler story Where are we marching towards – as individuals and society? What awaits us at the end of the path we travel, intentionally or accidentally, the path so difficult to divert from? The question is both existential and philosophical. We all carry the burden of that path, as well as its joys. Do […]
Mind filler story The series ‘Identity’ illustrates a search for one’s recognizable identity, personal, ethnic, and racial. The search is arduous, looking into mirrors and fighting blind spots. The path is uncertain and convoluted. Could you define your own identity in a sentence or two – with clarity and precision? Perhaps words are not sufficient…are […]
Mind filler story Imprints impressed in our core come from an ancient past, origins of the species, as well as from more recent and vivid, ethnic and cultural histories. What is it about this elusive memory of the collective past, ancient or historical, imprinted in our brains and reflexes that define us individually? Why is […]
Mind filler story ‘Observers’ are moral authorities that channel or control our behavior, freedom of thought, and actions. They carry a carrot of belonging (to a beleif structure) and a stick of reprimand. They guide us and limit us, our freedoms. Observers could morph into an image of a strict father, religious leader, authoritarian philosophy, […]
Mind-filler story I came to experience a period of flirting with sexual ‘fluidity’ in my teenage years, sneaking out of control, parental and educational, to watch (then highly controversial) ‘Emmanuelle‘. Although I was firmly ‘she’, I did not shy away from experimenting kisses with girls or dressing in ‘man’s’ clothes. It was definitely an experimental, […]
Mind filler story I have a friend who is losing her faculties to Alzheimer’s, slowly but visibly – each time we meet, a distance of a few months, an inevitability of her decline sets in, sadly; she is fading away… Fading away…recent memories thinning out, clinging to the past, emotions flat or irritated, pinning time […]
Left Brain Artists