We are wired to look for what we already know.
​As an artist we can choose to use this in two ways: render a subject with as minimal strokes as possible, making it easily accessible to the viewer or to make an image different enough to bypass the brain's pattern recognition.
​The latter is challenging and contributes largely to the making of a new visual language: art that challenges and forces one to reassess the meaning of an image.
​Today I present to you the "unfamiliar" coffee-to-go cup.
This technique will now figure more often in my new work.
Much light.

Today I am posting a water colour and ink work I did 4 years ago.
I am beginning to appreciate the seeds of my interest in colour fields.
​Considering I did these small works "just for fun", I am beginning to see that these colour fields are some kind of a subconscious expression of a language of art I am only beginning to see.
​Hope I will comprehend fully someday.
​Much light!

I came back from a rainy Chennai to a rainy Berlin.
​My plants, although cared for, had lost all their leaves and were looking so withered and forlorn. I spent most of yesterday clearing out the leaves, cutting back what needed to be cut back and draining out the water that had not been taken up by them.
​To me it was a reminder of the seasons: I had to respect their need to shut down and shut off a bit and wait for them to glow in all their energy again in spring. 
This makes me look forward to spring so much.
​Every one of us needs time to slow down, recuperate, regenerate and rest. Each one of us needs to be willing to cut off the dead leaves and branches and make space for new growth and new mind sets.
Today my prayer is that each of us given that gift of discernment, to be able to let go of worry, strife, discord, useless ways of thinking and believe that everything happens in cycles, in seasons. There is a time for everything!
Today's sketch is of a rubber plant in all its glory from this summer.
​Much light!