Wednesday 22 August 2012

Love After Love

The time will come 
when, with elation, 
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror, 
and each will smile at the other's welcome
and say, sit here. Eat.
 
You will love again the stranger who was your self. 
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart 
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you 
all your life, whom you have ignored 
for another, who knows you by heart. 

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes, 
peel your own image from the mirror. 
Sit. Feast on your life. 

Derek Walcott, Collected Poems 1948-1984, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

Tuesday 10 July 2012

Whole by Katrina Wendt


Stop showing
You love me
A little at a time.

Stop saying
You care
Bit by bit.

Stop keeping
Me here
For tiny pieces of time.

Because I need
All of you
Not piece by piece.

I love
All of you
Not just some parts of you.

So love all of me
All the way
All the time.

Or let all of me go
All at once
For good.

Wednesday 4 July 2012

Forced Perpective

"Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography,filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera"


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Pat Perry




















Pat Perry's Website

Sunday 1 July 2012

Negative Space

"Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image. The use of negative space is a key element of artistic composition. The Japanese word "ma" is sometimes used for this concept, for example in garden design."

Taken from Wikipedia





















Tang Yau Hoong's print shop

Thursday 28 June 2012

Daniel Danger










 I love Daniel Danger's edgy, scratchy illustrations, and the use of glowing cold colours. Although they're without a doubt haunting images, there is definately something warm and inviting about them (possibly luring you into a false sense of security...) Hope you guys enjoy. Click the link below to find out more about DD and Tiny Media Empire.


Tiny Media Empire

A Small Thing by Marion Angus


A hurt so small,'
    Say you,
'A thread of grey
    On blue,
So slight a thing
Less than a wild rose sting
Nothing at all.'
    And yet,
When thrushes call,
    Or winds awake
And sigh – and sink –
    And fall –
Into the evening’s grey
I think –
    And think
This small heartbreak
Will wear my life away. 
Marion Angus
Taken from The Turn of the Day  (Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1931), and included inThe Singin Lass: selected work of Marion Angus, edited by Aimée Chalmers (Polygon, 2006