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You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back- Dave Eggers

Creative people might appear to be perfect, in light of various features we have credited to them. But highly creative people are complex beings who also possess what most people consider being socially undesirable. To begin with they can become so absorbed with their ideas particularly during stages of creative process that they strike others as hopelessly self centered. They may also lack social skills, becoming tactless, forgetful and inconsiderate to others.

Always seeking new ideas to replace old ones, highly creative people sometimes appear to be faultfinders.

They tend to set their clock according to rhythms of their ideas; they seem difficult and stubborn and yet at the same time flexible and open minded. This does not make them any easier to get along with, but giving highly creative people the freedom they need to develop their ideas gives rich rewards that benefit us all.

Does one take this complex personality for granted? We are all imperfect - the creative and the non creative. So because I need the solitude to gather my thoughts and produce them creatively gives me the license to be impolite?  Does it make me less creative otherwise? We are all in a hurry to label everyone, everything. We want to place them in a compartment. This can only bring a gap between us and the creative ones. Artists will not compromise to come two steps down and the rest will not want to climb two steps up. To avoid disappointments a handshake is possible. No? 

Measures of beauty

I have been trying to understand human body form in art. It’s amazing how we enhance a few body parts and neglect a few.

British academic Nigel Spivey explains- why is our modern world dominated by images of the body that are unrealistic?  In his T.V. series ‘How Art Made the World’

Neuroscientists theorize this has something to do with the workings of the human brain, and point to a neurological principle known as the peak shift. In essence our brain is hard-wired to focus upon parts of objects with pleasing associations. So if you were an artist, the tendency would be to reproduce human figures with parts that mattered the most to you.

While learning Indian art history I have been going through a lot of such images where certain body parts are measures of a female body.

In India mature women were considered beautiful. Fully grown ladies who are in their 30s, but why? To gain an answer I must learn the living conditions, environment, their beliefs, and their culture.

The Venus of Willendorf is one of the earliest images of the body made by humankind

The people who made this statue lived in a harsh ice-age environment where features of fatness and fertility would have been highly desirable.

Incase of our ’fly whisks bearer‘ (Late Mayuryan, c.200BC.,Chunar sand stone, H. 5 ft4 inches,Patna Museum) same logic can be applied in terms of fertility.

Why then now we have discarded this image’ of a woman?

Every culture develops some kind of art. It has to do with the introduction of various cultures. Imagine a family with 8 children in today’s times.

Today’s Indian culture is – hum do hamre do

In most cases its just one child, for several different reasons. This makes me wonder is may be the woman is not just a child bearer any more thus she may not have to look like one even in artistic images. And very rapidly we have dropped the fact of her looking like one. (Hips the breast being grotesquely big)

Unfortunately we are being faced with the extreme side of her which is – size zero

This is nothing but corruption of feelings, and that reflects in every form of art.

As I say if you are looking at a painting look beyond the paint..

If you are appreciating a woman, look beyond the mere symbols of fertility or size zero.

weekend fun

Had a great weekend of girlie and childish fun... lots of alcohol, name place animal thing, great food... 

and we sang to...

"I will survive

as long as i know how to love

I know I will stay alive

I've got all my life to live

I've got all my love to give

and I'll survive

I will survive"

a song for all girls!

bee sting

thought for the day

No Hope No Fear

Life in Bold Colors

happy

saturday blues

morning cure, summer garden tea

Hope, dangles on a string

The National - Runaway

What makes you think I’m enjoying being led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
That’s taking us over

trying my luck

dedicated to those who rush in and out of our lives, unfortunately it will take an ocean to break us

Sorrow found me when I was young,
Sorrow waited, sorrow won.
Sorrow that put me on the pills,
It's in my honey it's in my milk.
It's only about half a heart alone
On the water,
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy.
Cause I don't wanna get over you.
I don't wanna get over you.

give me a reason to love you?

And silence is another way
Of saying what I wanna say
And lying is another way
Of hoping it will go away
And you were always my mistake

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only the lonely can create