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 […]
Giant flowers Garden is difficult to photograph – many layers, colors, canopies, plant varieties – the photo is often too busy and lacking in perspective and holistic view. That is why we often focus on photographing single garden specimens – or is it because they are irresistible? Individuals… Standing out, beautiful in display of their […]
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 […]
Irresistible attraction Curiously, most of us are cat lovers. Animal lovers, rather. Living with cats, it is impossible not to rejoice in their elegance, posture, curiosity, playfulness, hunting instincts. Cats, often depicted in art pieces, as a sole subject, as a companion of people, women (revisit here some of woman/cat companion paintings), participants in domestic […]
Photography Past and present are a continuum – one cannot exist without the other. A conundrum of time (or our concept of time). We are equally limited and enriched by both; personal history entrenches much of our behavior, national history, our beliefs, history of humanity – our archetypal identity and empathy. Sometimes, these realizations become […]
Mixed media figurative art New energy found in orange touches many facets of our lives and art – we expressed it in paintings of nature, in objects we created or enjoyed, in emotion- flooded abstract art. The last chapter of the Project Orange are faces and figures, expressed, as always, in a variety of mediums. […]
Travel, wine, photography…and art This is a second, ‘French edition’ of my earlier post inspired by our fall workshop. There, I mused about the beauty of the autumn, and my yearly travels to Quebec’s Eastern Townships to enjoy its bounty, its nature and ‘l’art de vivre’ that emanates from its unique culture. This fall in […]
Photography I know very little about Iceland. Far away Northern land, empty and mysterious. Sparse population speaking uniquely difficult language, imbedded in storytelling, mist and ice. I always felt some vague kinship with all Northern lands, living myself in one. Sense of vastness and loneliness, lands of unfathomable landscapes where contemplation of our minute presence […]
Photo tour of Western Balkans Today is Canada Day. Local fireworks have started. Too soon as expectations are difficult to subdue; you really need to wait until after 10 pm in the evening; here, in the Canadian capital, July 1st is almost a white night. With the sound of celebratory fire-crackers and colorful rockets in the […]
Left Brain Artists