Creating Mindfully, Links

  Well it is almost three years that I am blogging. Initially it was one entry a month….and it would take me almost a whole month to write it. I have always thought that my means of expression is only visual and that words have no room in this visual...

Sumi-e With Words

Back to my Sumi-e painting class. I find through teaching, out of necessity, I find ways of making the inquisitive Western minds relate and let go of the habitual ways of seeing and creating. This is the space where Eastern and Western concepts merge…… So...

Eastern Art, Western Mind

  I remember when I was a student learning Sumi-e. Having former education in Fine Arts; Western approach, aesthetics and of course the mentality, I was eager to understand, to figure out things and had many questions. My Japanese teacher’s (Tomoko Kodama)...