tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80222099559879331902024-03-13T12:28:38.060+08:00catmaSutra cat art by paul kohExperience quirky cat art and collectibles by Singaporean artist, paul Koh.catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-55236250764526668752013-08-26T11:30:00.000+08:002013-08-27T23:15:47.496+08:00catmaSutra cat art interview with Paul Koh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;">ENERGIES, CAPTURED</span></i></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Given the theme of this issue of @HOME,</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">we asked Paul what compels him to create.</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">He eloquently explained: “The world is not</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">all ‘material’; it’s made up of all kinds of</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">energies that come together. As an artist,</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">you have the ability to harness and shape</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">those energies into forms that express</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">whatever you want them to. It’s a liberating</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">and beautiful process. Once you accept it,</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">it becomes a living force that ‘compels’ you</span></i></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">to create.”</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Paul recalls ‘thinking in pictures’ for as long</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">as he can remember. When he ventured</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">into children’s book publishing, his eyes</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">were opened to the “rich and multi-layered</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">world of illustration and magic”. Inspired</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">and excited, he ventured into illustration,</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">and subsequently into digital design.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: orange;"><b>WHY CATS?</b></span></i></span><br />Painted in acrylics on canvas, the catmaSutra series embodies Paul’s signature style and has attained iconic status in the local arts scene. We couldn’t resist asking – why cats?<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Paul explained: “I grew up drawing and<br />I grew up with cats. I guess it was just a<br />matter of time before these two passions<br />become intuitively linked. Cats have this<br />mystical quality that I’m attracted to, and<br />they do keep me sane when things get too<br />hectic.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“CatmaSutra has become a way for me<br />to create a certain mood and imbue it with<br />a way of seeing things; it has a touch of<br />nonchalance with a dash of devil-may-care<br />bravado, a happy-go-lucky persona based<br />on a childlike ability to tune into the inner<br />workings of the world. The ‘eyes-wideshut’<br />and irrepressible ‘ear-to-ear’ grins of<br />the cats are representative of this energy,<br />and the trademark expression points to a<br /><br />mystical cleverness that is bereft of logic and reason,” elaborated Paul. The fabulous felines of catmaSutra are depicted in a myriad of situations, from riding on motorbikes to cavorting among sunflowers and sitting on Buddha statues.Paul draws his inspiration from “all the stuff that we come into contact with, our surroundings, the media, design, art, everything.”<br /><br />In Paul’s own words, each of his paintings presents“… a moment in a story that is<br />personal and yet universal. It becomes a space for me to explore the flow of energy<br />that vibrates in between, that blurs the line between reality and myth, between<br />the power of everyday and the power of imagination.”<br /><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><b> <span style="font-size: small;">IN EVERYONE, AN ARTIST</span></b></span></span><br />Paul encourages everyone to find their inner artist. “I believe there is an artist in everyone. We are all here to create albeit in different ways. As long as you stay true to your path, you will create and develop your own form of artistry.”<br /><br /></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Paul also encourages collectors to listen less to what policymakers and critics say, and more to how each piece of art speaks directly to them. “Perceptions of what is ‘valuable’ art are affected by boards and committees who decide on grants and funding, inclusion in national or international art fairs, and which pieces of public art is commissioned. However, a piece of art has value insofar as there are people who are willing to believe in the artists,” said Paul. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: orange;"><b>HAVE A LITTLE FAITH IN YOU</b></span></i></span><br />When we asked Paul for some advice for aspiring artists, he generously obliged: <i>“My advice is to have faith and persevere. I doubt that there are many ‘accidental’ artists in Singapore (the pretenders will fall away); one doesn’t happen to be an artist. Artists are all self-made, committed to finding ways to continue working as an artist because, innately, they know this is what keeps them alive. Day job or not, struggling or otherwise, we’re talking about the condition of the soul here.”</i><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: orange;"><b>PAUL’S CAT-ALOGUE</b></span></i></span><br />The beauty of Paul’s work is that it is accessible, in more ways than one. He holds an exhibition at Utterly Art in December every year, and also works with a local company, Arts2U, which helps to promote local artists through merchandise such as puzzles, post cards, coasters and so on. His art collectables are carried in most museum shops in Singapore, including the Esplanade Shop, Red Dot Museum, SAM and Banyan Tree Gallery. He also accepts commissions for portraits of cats, dogs, rabbits… anything with fur, from what we can gather!</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.catmasutra.com/images-cat-art-exhibition2/catmasutra-monet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.catmasutra.com/images-cat-art-exhibition2/catmasutra-monet.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><i><span style="color: orange;"><b>THE ARTIST’S ARTISTS</b></span></i><br />Paul’s personal taste in art pretty much reflects his own personal style of art. “I love art that is quirky, intuitive and illustrative to a degree. Contemporary artists such as Liu Ye, Peng Peng, Nara Yoshitomo, Takashi Murakami, Ai Yamaguchi, Audrey<br />Kawasaki, Amy Sol, Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, James Jean, Yuko Shimizu – as well as the masters such as Seurat, Monet, Magritte, Klimt, Van Gogh, Hokusai… are all inspiring!” he enthused.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KwrVMVayS3Q/UhoDKM-zN8I/AAAAAAAADuo/PzruTHjqk0k/s1600/104-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KwrVMVayS3Q/UhoDKM-zN8I/AAAAAAAADuo/PzruTHjqk0k/s400/104-copy.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b><br />ART @HOME</b></span><br />Paul encourages every homeowner to invest in art. <i>”I think that every home should have a piece of art that matches the personality as well as captures the imagination of its owner. Art can transform a house, bringing with it an energy that might otherwise be lacking. It should complement its occupants, and provide a ‘space’ for them to reflect, refresh or simply recharge</i>,” suggested Paul.<br /><br />Paul’s current home has a loft-like look with concrete floors, several brick walls,and glass partitions. The walls are painted in light grey and graced with many catmaSutra’s ‘ear-to-ear grin’ paintings. Though Paul describes it as “a happy and quirky place”, he was quick to describe his dream house. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Do as Paul does – dream a little dream house for yourself. And be sure to reserve a place on a wall for a special piece of art. A catmaSutra paw-trait could be just purrfect!<br />(Ouch, sorry about that.)</span></span><br />
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-15490067809717830502013-08-20T00:18:00.001+08:002013-08-20T00:18:23.486+08:00a dream and a lullaby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Waiting for it to happen</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">But if not now, then when?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">The future happens now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Stirrings in the mornings</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Don't stay in the night dreams</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Don't get pulled in just to wake</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Get up and greet the cats</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Meet the morning, feel its light</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Stay with the rhythm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">Your universe starts again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00390625);">With love, it ends with love</span></div>
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-67131387507782767312012-12-03T23:13:00.000+08:002012-12-03T23:21:49.153+08:00The Cat Night Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">catmaSutra cat art - The Cat Night Out, 24 x 30"</span></i></div>
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The night just started<br />
the rain says, 'just a little bit more'.<br />
The road shimmers in the night lights,<br />
the wind says, 'just a bit to set the mood'.<br />
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Like this night<br />
coming into existence,<br />
the senses wake, and whirls<br />
in a dancing joy, a secret passage<br />
opens up to<br />
just two people walking together,<br />
talking about life and such;<br />
eating together
and feeling<br />
miracles in the air;<br />
the laughter out of nowhere;<br />
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your teasing, her flirting,<br />
and that<br />
ear-to-ear grin of the cat<br />
that jumps back into the window<br />
and snuggles up to bed.<br />
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Such is the night<br />
when all I can remember<br />
are earthquake dreams of you.<br />
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;) <br />
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Make a Date with the cat!<br />
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catmaSutra 8 - Ride with Me<br />
Exhibition runs from<br />
6th - 23rd Dec 2012<br />
Utterly Art<br />
20B Mosque Street<br />
3rd Level <br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Macatlan, 30 x 30"</i></span><br />
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A setting rich in heritage suited to a mischievous, <br />
complex and reflective moment, <br />
one to ponder the victories won through imagination, <br />
and the freedoms grasped through playfulness! <br />
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Here's one for the ride...<br />
The Macatlan.<br />
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-77837282319315649472012-11-30T00:57:00.000+08:002012-11-30T09:49:49.916+08:00catmaSutra cat art - Music that we are<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Music That We Are (2012) 24 x 48 inches<br />Acrylic on Canvas </i></span></div>
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Climb higher to catch a glimpse </div>
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of that which the birds are always aware of, </div>
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the first batch of snow flakes
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It's an open secret of the universe, </div>
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It is the music that we are </div>
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catmaSutra 8 - Ride with Me<br />
Exhibition runs from<br />
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Utterly Art<br />
20B Mosque Street<br />
3rd Level </div>
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-40835307005805079152012-11-28T00:51:00.001+08:002012-11-28T00:53:40.899+08:00This has always been your universe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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6th - 23rd Dec 2012</span></span></span></div>
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Utterly Art</span></span></span></div>
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20B Mosque Street</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Waiting for sunrise...24 x 48"</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Each day when the sun rises, everything brings with it its own life. Beauty is inherent in so many things; choose to seek it, and it appears in a myriad of forms. Wait for the sun to rise; see how the sky breaks, listen to the chorus of a brand new day... </span><br />
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-23666854265983034912012-11-25T16:44:00.002+08:002012-11-25T16:50:24.269+08:00Before the Dance in The Rain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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catmaSutra Cat Art 8</h2>
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Before the Dance In The Rain</h3>
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The rain has an uncanny ability to change a landscape -</div>
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it may be a storm but it's a redemption of sorts; </div>
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it's a celebration of an internal change, a quiet shift</div>
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that refreshes and softens and as the rain </div>
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dwindle to the soft chirping of birds,</div>
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it's like everything is awakened all at the same time -</div>
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a moment made anew in a myriad of forms...</div>
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I can't resist being part of it- </div>
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the dance of the rain -</div>
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to feel the trickles of raindrops on bare skin,</div>
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and the dance of rain patterns through the dark corners</div>
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of our hearts, making everything shining again.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Before the Dance in the rain, 24 x 30", 2012<br /></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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Utterly Art<br />
20B Mosque Street<br />
3rd Level </span></span></span></div>
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If for one moment, you find yourself playing and dancing in the rain, <br />
smiling like a little child, and letting it happen,</div>
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then the world right there and then would be a </div>
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beautiful place...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Under the Lotus Leaf</span>, 24 x 30", 2012</i></span></div>
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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, <br />
it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” -Vivian Greene</div>
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-26821044218785031342012-11-23T00:21:00.001+08:002012-11-23T10:33:41.647+08:00catmaSutra 8 - Ride with me!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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catmaSutra 8 art exhibition</h3>
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Ride With Me!</h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Ride with Me, 36 x 24"</span></i></div>
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"Ride with Me" takes us away to a place where small things matter
more than big ones - like getting ready for a dance in the rain,
spending time waiting for the sun to rise, or hours watching birds and
fishes glide through their universes. The catmaSutra cats take us
through a journey based on innocence, where imagination marries delight,
freedom exudes playfulness, such that we can become a child again. We
become the music that we are - a blissful symphonic harmony - when we
stop to reacquaint ourselves with these moments. Immerse and indulge
then in the 8th collection of <a href="http://www.catmasutra.com/singapore-art-exhibitions/catmasutra-cat-art-8.html" target="_blank">catmaSutra paintings</a>! <br /><br /></div>
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There's something about a motorcycle that I couldn't resist. Not sure what it is - the open road, the nearness of the elements, the individuality of the ride, or an indescribable sense of freedom; perhaps it is the fine line that makes us rebels - The rejection of that which is widely prescribed to the freedom of listening to one's own heart...That heart is a vulnerable one and it will break many times but I suspect it wouldn't have it any other way...</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Rebels, 30 x 30"</span></i></div>
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Only the gentle are truly strong.”<br />
~ James Dean</div>
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'Rebels' was recently exhibited and sold at Affordable Art Fair 2012.</div>
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More posts to come re the latest catmaSutra painting! </div>
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Exhibition runs from<br />
6th - 23rd Dec 2012<br />
Utterly Art<br />
20B Mosque Street<br />
3rd Level </div>
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catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-66959414774127736792012-11-17T13:02:00.000+08:002012-11-17T13:04:29.155+08:00catmaSutra cat Art at Affordable Art fair 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sneak peek new pieces and fav ones at Afforedable Art Fair, Utterly Art Booth.</div>
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Look out the catmaSutra 8 in December!</div>
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'Rebels'</div>
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catmaSutra cat and James Dean,</div>
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if only for the freedom of the road...</div>
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<i>What makes us us,</i></div>
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<i>and what makes this life so special? </i><br />
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“Remember:<br />
Life is short, break the rules <br />
(they were made to be broken)<br />
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly<br />
Love truly, laugh uncontrollably<br />
And never regret anything that makes you smile.<br />
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full <br />
(though the answers won't be found at the bottom)<br />
Don't sweat the small stuff,<br />
You are who you are meant to be,<br />
Dance as if no one's watching,<br />
Love as if it's all you know,<br />
Dream as if you'll live forever,<br />
Live as if you'll die today”<br />
~ James Dean</div>
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'Looking Through Rose-Tinted Glasses'</div>
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“I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.<br />
I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.<br />
I'm good, but I'm not an angel.<br />
I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”<br />
~ Marilyn Monroe</div>
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There's re different ways, but then again,</div>
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"<br />
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."<br />
"I don't much care where –"<br />
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”<br />
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</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-46274161294668913772012-02-27T23:45:00.002+08:002012-02-27T23:47:40.426+08:00Without You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I found that record you'd been looking for yesterday<br />
The one I'd been searching for forever<br />
I played that record all night,you were right<br />
The last song said it all<br />
Even though it skipped a bit,it sounded better<br />
I never,I never,I never knew<br />
The only way to listen to a record like that<br />
Is to play it through<br />
But all of this means nothing<br />
Yeah,all of this means nothing<br />
All of this means nothing<br />
Without you<br />
I packed up the car and started to drive<br />
Without a plan,with no direction<br />
You said it'd be good for me<br />
To break out of my daily routine<br />
You were always trying to teach some lesson<br />
You wanted,you wanted,you wanted me<br />
To feel the open road with the wind on my face<br />
Well,I'm here and I'm finally free<br />
But all of this means nothing<br />
Yeah,all of this means nothing<br />
All of this means nothing<br />
Without you<br />
You and I were partners in crime<br />
Petty thieves in a line up<br />
But somehow we wound up here<br />
I'm looking at a letter that I wrote to you long ago<br />
I wouldn't even know now where to send it<br />
It's funny how it all poured out on paper<br />
If only I had found a way to tell you<br />
If only,if only,if only you<br />
Had found a way to love me for who I am<br />
The way that I loved you<br />
But all of this means nothing<br />
Yeah,all of this means nothing<br />
All of this means nothing<br />
Without,without,without,without you</div>
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In a single day (and in essence in a single moment as that is what it takes to change direction), I can veer into my own ideas of progress or degeneration, from inspiration to frustration, from a good to a bad day or vice-versa. Such is the way our expectations work. We feel as if things have to go a certain way for it to work, and that time is continuous - that it flows from the past, through the present, and into the future. But time is not continuous - it consists of moments that appear and disappear at superspeed. Because we are unable to fathom this, we feel a gap and hence a separation from time based on the hands of a ticking clock. We feel that life is completely separated from the rest of the universe. We try and make time meaningful for ourselves and expect outcomes instead of living it fully and completely. In truth, every moment is separate and it disappears, constantly cutting off our lives. This is <i>Mujo</i>, the essence of impermanence. In this sense, nothing lasts. As soon as there is relief, there appears another need that requires satisfaction.<br />
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Yet at the core of time, there is no gap between our mind and time. We exist as part of time and move together with the universe and all beings in time that is connected with it. When we are still, there is no layering of concept or idea, we can learn to touch the core of our own life without the labels, the ideas or expectations; we can be present in the real stream of time and looking directly at life itself. And then we'll surface again as the next moment carries us away with its promises, concepts, expectations and all their darker counterparts. These two aspects - one that separates us from time, and the other which connects us - constitutes the original nature of time. If we can understand how impermanence works in our life, we can use time to cultivate a way of life beyond the hands of the ticking clock. :)<br />
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It's that time of the year when the cats of CatmaSutra come out to play!
Bright, quirky, and capable of levitation, the seventh installation of
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The
seven year itch has only served to cook up more mischief as the
catmaSutra cat takes you to that sweet spot of whimsical bliss and
light-heartedness.</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> "If we stop and observe how life flows, we'll notice
how the universe is made up of individual moments which when
appreciated fully, gains a shape akin to a smile from the heart - a
personal heaven." </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Paul's paintings take his audience through these
moments using the cat as the perfect allegory to create a personal
space that tugs at the heartstrings!</span></h3>
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Come check out some of the available catmaSutra collectibles and
smile-getters (2012 catmaSutra calendar cards, tile coasters and
keepsake boxes), the purr-fect gifts this festive season.</h3>
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<a href="http://www.catmasutra.com/singapore-art-exhibitions/catmasutra-cat-art-7.html">catmaSutra 7 cat art exhibition</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">CATMASUTRA: </span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>
7TH HEAVEN</b> </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Opening Reception: </span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Wed 14th Dec 2011 from 7pm </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Exhibition runs from </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
14 to 24 Dec 2011 </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
@
Utterly Art</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
229A South Bridge Road </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
2nd Level </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Opening hours: </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
12 noon to 8pm, </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Mon to Sat.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
12 noon to 5.30pm, Sun </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Or contact Keng Hock</span>
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for appointments: </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Tel: + 65 6226 2605 </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Cell: 94872006 </span></span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><a href="mailto:utterlyart@pacific.net.sg" style="font-weight: normal;">utterlyart@pacific.net.sg</a></span>
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</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-17929863578152133602011-12-03T13:44:00.001+08:002011-12-03T13:50:26.342+08:00Cat Monologue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Went down to buy coffee. Was trying to hear myself amidst the noise, listening
to voices inside as I stroll through a thin mist of rain. There are two voices
talking, one is from my heart. I always hear that first, and then a second voice
which is not entirely mine but seems cocksure and as usual, pretty loud. But if
you hear deeply enough, it is loud because it is insecure and doesn't want to
lose out in any way. Insecurity and fear - they are best friends, almost
inseparable. I bought the coffee and saw the cat that I knew; he has been
sleeping next to my bike the last few evenings. He was now asleep on a chair
tucked underneath the safety of a kopitiam table. I pulled a chair next to him,
made eye contact and started patting him. he's a good natured cat and began to
flip for me. I pat him on the head, his chin, rubbed his face and letting him
rest his head on my palm while he purred away blissfully. The heart seemed settled
and quiet - pure and simple. This voice became loud and clear. And when I
turned to walk away, the cat sat up wondering where I'm going. Half way across
the road I looked back and he was still looking at me.<br />
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I went back later and
took a photograph of him. He had changed seats but still sleeping tightly
seemingly without a care in the world...<br />
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<a href="http://www.catmasutra.com/singapore-art-exhibitions/catmasutra-cat-art-7.html">catmaSutra 7 cat art exhibition</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">CATMASUTRA: </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
7TH HEAVEN </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Opening Reception: </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Thurs 14th Dec 2011 from 7pm </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Exhibition runs from </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
14 to 27 Dec 2011 </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
@
Utterly Art</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
229A South Bridge Road </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
2nd Level </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Opening hours: </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
12 noon to 8pm, </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Mon to Sat.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
12 noon to 5.30pm, Sun </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Or contact Keng Hock</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
for appointments: </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Tel: + 65 6226 2605 </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Cell: 94872006 </span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><a href="mailto:utterlyart@pacific.net.sg" style="font-weight: normal;">utterlyart@pacific.net.sg</a></span>
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</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-11840011336826145022011-10-18T23:21:00.001+08:002011-10-18T23:46:15.909+08:00These are stories in the rain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. </div>
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“Thanks to the long days of rain, <br />
the blades of grass glowed with a
deep-green luster, and <br />
they gave off the smell of wildness unique to
things <br />
that sink their roots into the earth.” </div>
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~</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Haruki Murakami</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A play on Jamie Beck “cinemagraphs:… totoro and halo in the rain.. </span></i></div>
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“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she
won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because
that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her
mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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<br />
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift
she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one
night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say
something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and
is broken.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway
who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the
driver to stop. You will never see her again.
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Whenever it rains you will think of her. ”<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<br />~ Neil Gaiman</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> catmasutra cat art: In-between Love</span></i></div>
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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the
leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the
wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the
spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen...”
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Ernest Hemingway</span></i></div>
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“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing, <br />
something complicated and hard to get. <br />
Yet, what little
things can make it up; a place of shelter <br />
when it rains - a cup of
strong hot coffee <br />
when you're blue; for a man, <br />
a cigarette for
contentment; <br />
a book to read when you're alone - <br />
just to be with someone
you love. <br />
Those things make happiness.”
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Betty Smith</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>
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</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-527788069644624472011-09-07T23:10:00.000+08:002011-09-07T23:10:53.374+08:00Moving on...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dry9qTFUxm0/TmeJTGMykjI/AAAAAAAACQI/aXshYE_rMUk/s1600/moving-on.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dry9qTFUxm0/TmeJTGMykjI/AAAAAAAACQI/aXshYE_rMUk/s400/moving-on.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Tired. Thought I listen to a piece of music before I turned off the power, pull the plug. Goodbye day. May I be released from your chains into something more comfortable. Music. The whizzing sound of fans like turbos of a flying machine. I’ve come crashing down, into the arms of your royal darkness. Hello Night.<br />
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Will be updating this blog on <a href="http://catmasutra.tumblr.com/">Tumblr: http://catmasutra.tumblr.com/</a></div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-51596774979818293462011-07-21T00:31:00.000+08:002012-02-05T19:33:41.856+08:00Hidden dreams and quirky cat impressions!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Beauty surrounds us,</div>
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but usually we need to be walking</div>
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in a garden to know it.</div>
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The body itself is a screen</div>
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to shield and partially reveal</div>
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the light that's blazing</div>
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inside your presence.</div>
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Water, stories, the body</div>
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all the things we do, are mediums</div>
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that hide and show what's hidden.</div>
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Study them,</div>
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and enjoy this being washed</div>
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with a secret we sometimes know,</div>
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and then not.</div>
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~Rumi</div>
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</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-68257635539729824502011-07-12T23:02:00.001+08:002011-07-12T23:37:59.298+08:00Joker Cat is in town - The Quirkiest cat art iPhone cat cover!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B0oprEhvJ3M/Thnal6x9g8I/AAAAAAAACOY/Fs3MAx3xQqo/s1600/cat-art-jester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B0oprEhvJ3M/Thnal6x9g8I/AAAAAAAACOY/Fs3MAx3xQqo/s400/cat-art-jester.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YgIerFRDPIA/ThnZ9k42FwI/AAAAAAAACOU/hwN9PxYnGRI/s1600/cat-art-like-light-over-this-plain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"There is always a Joker to see through the delusion. <br />
Generation succeeds generation, but there is a <br />
fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time."<br />
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"Our lives are part of a unique adventure...<br />
Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal'...<br />
But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. </div><div style="text-align: center;">As for myself, I felt completely different. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I saw the world as an amazing dream. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how </div><div style="text-align: center;">everything fit together." <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as </div><div style="text-align: center;">the other cards, but he doesn't belong there... </div><div style="text-align: center;">It is different for the Joker, </div><div style="text-align: center;">because he was put into this world with </div><div style="text-align: center;">a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much." <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>~~Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery </i></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I had a dream<br />
That I could fly from the highest tree.<br />
I had a dream.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave.<br />
I lived it full and I lived it well, there's many tales I've lived to tell.<br />
I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready now to<br />
fly from the highest wing.<br />
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;) </div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-63922022692255277562010-11-06T15:23:00.000+08:002010-11-06T15:23:39.503+08:00The opium den of remembrance<div style="text-align: center;">"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: </div><div style="text-align: center;">all the exaltation and joys came in the moment of preparation </div><div style="text-align: center;">for living. They took place in solitude. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">But with action came anxiety, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and with it came weariness, discouragement, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the flight into solitude again. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lWVCWLbe2CI/TNUCG0pL2UI/AAAAAAAACLw/IJZWC8oMKA4/s1600/botanic-explosion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lWVCWLbe2CI/TNUCG0pL2UI/AAAAAAAACLw/IJZWC8oMKA4/s400/botanic-explosion.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.redbubble.com/people/marcloret/art/5331891-1-botanical-explosion">by Marc Lorec</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">the possibility of pleasure again."<br />
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~ Anaïs Nin</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-78939689958741580752010-10-31T21:23:00.003+08:002010-10-31T21:30:07.206+08:00Maybe baby<div style="text-align: center;">"...maybe if I could have lived more peaceably… </div><div style="text-align: center;">maybe if I’d met the right person years ago, maybe...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe, baby, the promised land was there and I missed it<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lWVCWLbe2CI/TM1oj8ktC-I/AAAAAAAACLY/IZtYiteWE_o/s1600/paul-catmasutra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lWVCWLbe2CI/TM1oj8ktC-I/AAAAAAAACLY/IZtYiteWE_o/s640/paul-catmasutra.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Look at it glittering in the light. <br />
But the truth is I am inventing the maybe. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I can only make the choices I make, </div><div style="text-align: center;">so why torture myself with what I might have done, </div><div style="text-align: center;">when all I can handle is what I have done.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.</i></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Much of what I have done is left unfinished- </div><div style="text-align: center;">not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,</div><div style="text-align: center;">but because it had a life of it's own that continues without me. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: </div><div style="text-align: center;">they begin as part of your own body, and continue as seperate </div><div style="text-align: center;">as another continent. </div><br />
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The work you do,<br />
if it has any meaning, passes to other hands. <br />
The day slides into a night's dreaming.True stories<br />
are the ones that lie open at the border, <br />
allowing a crossing, a further frontier.<br />
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The final frontier is just science fiction - don't believe it. <br />
Like the universe, there is no end."<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
~ Jeanette Winterson</span></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I keep thinking of you, you're on my mind.<br />
For the fifty seven thousandth time this morning.<br />
I keep seeing you in sheets of white.<br />
I can't change anything, I can't change aaannyything.<br />
Aaaaaaaannnnnyyyyything.<br />
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I was out on my own, for the first time.<br />
It was here all along, that I cracked.<br />
Now it won't happen again till the next time.<br />
Yeah I think I can do this all by myself.<br />
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I've been thinking of you a lot this morning.<br />
For the fifty seven thousandth time today.<br />
I will see you in pictures dressed as I am.<br />
I can change anything, I can change aaannyything.<br />
Ooohhh aaaaaaannnnnyyything.<br />
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I would like to tell you, where I'm going to.<br />
I've seen it before, I've seen it before.<br />
I would like to tell you, this is not about you.<br />
I've seen it before, I've seen it before.<br />
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I keep thinking of you, you're on my mind.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YPxfDj1Cdvo?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YPxfDj1Cdvo?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-78486079205742789552010-10-21T00:52:00.000+08:002010-10-21T00:52:07.549+08:00Divine Chaos<div style="text-align: center;">"Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Forgive yourself. Breathe. </div><div style="text-align: center;">And enjoy the ride"<br />
~ Solbeam</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; </div><div style="text-align: center;">for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Audrey Hepburn</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">;) </span></i></div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8022209955987933190.post-43113952893164174412010-10-16T22:58:00.000+08:002010-10-16T22:58:48.192+08:00Lightness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catmasutra.com/images-cat-art-exhibition4/catmasutra-lightness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.catmasutra.com/images-cat-art-exhibition4/catmasutra-lightness.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.catmasutra.com/singapore-art-exhibitions/cat-art-catmasutra.html">catmaSutra cat art: The Bearable Lightness of Being</a></span></i></div><br />
"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></div><br />
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"We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. this happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. people in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. and finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers."<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Milan Kundera</span></i> </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">;)</div>catmaSutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05219253585865632474noreply@blogger.com0