2:13 p.m. - 2005-09-17
anticipation at the outcome of actions
Last night about 10pm, i was at an artists' studio. my friend had commissioned a girl, Jaslynn to help him make a scrapbook for his australia travels and he was there to get his scrapbook and i tagged along since we were going to eat supper and play pool with army mates.
i saw big individual portraits of young LKY standing coolly, Goh chok tong waving a flag and lee hsien loong smiling. they were painted well. I asked the girl who painted them and she said it was her friend. There were also some photos of a helicopter and tank made of Macdonald's boxes and styrafoam cups. i also saw this huge painting of a steamed pomfret on a red plate with cut tomato slices. i looked at LKY and wondered about the icon. it had resonance. defining singapore.
we asked if we could have portraits painted. she said it would depend on the guy.
Jaslynn asked if we wanted to take a look at the rest of the apartment. we said yes. we looked at oil paintings of flowers by someone who drew only flowers. i looked at the cd collection but have forgotten what the titles are. There was one painting hung upside down.
Then we went to the back of the place where another girl, Donna, was working on an installation piece with various water pipes and tupperware. Her idea was to have the water flowing down and around. the radio was playing garbage's song "only happy when it rains". i dunno if it was a cd she put for while she worked. there were some pencil drawings of insect wings hung around. there was a big plastic container which was filled to the brim with various little plastic animals and toys. she said it was her collection. i wish i had that.
then we said our goodbyes and left.
it made me think about art. Like the areas of commercial art like broadcast graphics and "traditional" non-digital art like paintings and installations. and film art and all that. i remember thisisamagazine and its issue about art.
what message do you have to tell
is it a new way of looking at things...
while i was lying in bed just now, i had a thought, but i lost it now.
ok i got to go swim now. byebye.
