Left Brain Artists
Wire sculptures The opening chapter of our new project starts with the introduction of two female artists who create using a wire line – transparent hanging sculptures, tri-dimensional drawings, installations.. Organic hanging crocheted wire sculptures of iconic Ruth Asawa meet exaggerated wire faces popping out of canvases of Fiona Morley. Separated by time and cultures, […]
Sculptures of Ivan Eyre McMichael’s art collections in Kleinburg hosts a sculpture garden – grand-scale black shiny statues against green screen of leafs and intermingled nature paths. Surprising, stunning, Egyptian, modern, indigenous – hard to find a footing in this encounter. A little out of place, yet primal as the nature surrounding them. Admittedly, little […]
Pre-Colombian Art Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hosted several exhibits this summer 2023 – the first one we explored in a rush to absorb all art Montreal can offer, left us in awe and reverence – a ‘Portable Universe’. ‘Portable’ because the art transcends centuries. ‘Universe’ because the artifacts embodied a philosophy of life, values, […]
Photography Perhaps I can start this blog with a musing about what might be an ideal city? These days, fantastical, futuristic city designs generated by AI, stunning yet somehow dehumanized, are regular in my Instagram feed. Prompting the question – would I like to live in these cities? Honestly, I do like the image or […]
Garden and photography Summer visit(s) to Rideau Ramble garden and Merickville art community fair have become regular for Hung and I. It is one of those leisurely summer outings that brings both joy and tranquility – rambling about garden grounds, discovering hidden leafy spots, unusual plants, and surprising garden inhabitants. There is a familiarity with […]
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