Category: Art and Life
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What Museums Teach Us About Attention
We rarely notice how quickly we move through the world until we enter a space that refuses to move with us. A museum operates on a different rhythm from daily life. It does not reward speed or novelty. It asks for attention — not through instruction, but through stillness. Objects do not announce themselves. They…
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Azulejos: Icons of Portugal
When we look at the name Azulejos, we think we are looking at colour, but we are really looking at walls that learned how to speak. It is a common misunderstanding—understandable, given that azul means blue and that some of the most iconic Portuguese tile work seems to be overwhelmingly in the cool hue—that the name azulejos…
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The Portuguese Manueline Style
Manueline architecture has always puzzled me. Standing before its wildly intricate façades, I feel admiration and confusion in equal measure. It is beautiful—but not in a logical or orderly way. It looks like an artistic experiment that could have failed… yet somehow didn’t. Even its name feels oddly familiar yet distant. Most people recognise the…
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Niko Pirosmani
Niko Pirosmani is an important figure in the evolution of Naïve and Neo-Primitive art, as well as the Russian avant-garde who encapsulated all the characteristics of the unsung hero during his lifetime. Untrained and uneducated, his naïve narrative style and simple mode of depicting things, people, and animals inspired and influenced generations of artists. A…
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Georgian Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum I found myself in the enigmatic city of Tsibilisi during my latest vacation. The Caucasus country has always had a reputation for its safety and natural beauty.I was intrigued by this experience even though I wasn’t ready for the cold that my skin took weeks to recover from. On my initial days there,…
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Fine Arts Museum of HCM
Hi friends! I am ashamed to say that this post is 5 months overdue. It is nearly June, which means that this post has been saved in my draft folder for more than 4 months! I have had a change of environment after staying at my last school for ten years so it took every…
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Tokyo National Museum
This June, I finally visited the Land of the Rising Sun. It had always been on my bucket list, but I finally decided to take a gamble and visit the country solo with no friend to be found there. Of course if I had to count the only Japanese person I ever really got to…
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Vincent Van Gogh – The Immersive Experience at Sentosa Gateway Singapore.
There has been a lot of hype about this exhibition that has been happening across big cities around the world. Featuring to me at least, the original tormented artist, it pays homage to his postmodern techniques that is enriched with the technological marvels of our day.This means that instead of beholding a canvas the traditional…
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What inspires me to feel alive and to keep creating.
Life can sometimes take a toll on all of us. It is imperative that we sometimes stop to smell the roses, and start prioritising what’s important. That is however, easier said than done. For instance, I have a great desire to expand this blog that I am writing on , but after numerous weeks where…
