Anything that makes me feel.

Today’s theme from Grace at Kimmie.gg is “Art”

What are some of your favorite pieces and genres? Which artist do you adore?

I am a person who is not restricted in my interests to a specific kind of art or even to a particular artist. I might like an artist a little bit more than another one time and vice versa the other. That is why I am not a big fan of any particular band/singer/painter/photographer/author. I know what I don’t understand though. I don’t understand classical music. I don’t understand modern art. I don’t understand complex poetry. I don’t understand non-fiction or essays.

I enjoy any kind of art, be it calligraphy, sketches, watercolor, hand crafts, music, anything that pleases me as soon as I see/hear it. I follow a blogger called LunchSketch, who stopped blogging a long while ago and whose domain is currently expired , and I loved his sketches. It was so real and so full of emotions. I would say I miss his sketches, if I have to pick one artist among the huge set I follow. I like some of Kamal Das’s poems and know them by heart. I like my friend Anita’s works (her yarn based and her bead works) and Ashwini’s cards (and I wish she would start selling some of those 😉 )  I adore LD’s photographs and his stories. I love my friend S’s work and he does my tattoo designs (inside information: I have got my second tattoo design ready…just waiting for the right time) I love street art (and I did a whole series on it with the photographs I took in London). I love my first niece’s drawing attempts and she is getting better and better (my brother is planning to enroll her in a drawing class, which she is quite excited about). I guess if I start thinking a bit more, I will have lot of other people in the list. So let me end with this:

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton

Why Children’s Drawings Matter

I think I understand this. That is why I have got some drawings of my first niece attached to my room doors.

Wordless Wednesday

The girl who reads too much

Got this in ANTS store when we had been for the Sunday breakfast. I couldn’t resist it. I always had a weakness for these kind of  arts and crafts and this one reminded of myself. How I always seem to be in this position having either my book or my iPad with me and always having something to read. I did try a lot to not give in to temptation. But it is such a lovely piece and it would really have been a sad day if I had let it go, no ?  The only problem is I don’t have space in my home to keep this as a show piece. For now, it secured a place at my office table.

The Ants Cafe

This week’s Sunday brunch was in ‘The Ants Cafe & Store’ in Indiranagar. This is a place where they have a store in the ground floor which has the arts and crafts related to the north eastern part of India and the cafe in the first floor. The food was good. I had a potato blast (the veg breakfast combo, the other one was with mushrooms which I don’t prefer) which was good and very filling. The seats were all in the form of the small chairs (bamboo) or square stool type like in the other photograph. It wasn’t convenient to sit for a very long time though. They had a small room which had the proper chairs but was already full. The only problem was that the orders took too long to arrive and we were too hungry. Other than that, it was a relaxed late breakfast , as usual. It is a medium priced place.

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