“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” A lot of artists these days attempt to push the limits and contort the very definitions of art. Picture this, you are an art critc in the early 70’s. You have decided to attend a performance art piece by a woman …
Read More »Dante’s Inferno: The Art of Walking Through Hell
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” Born into the living arms of his parents, unbaptized and out of pure lust. He loved the man and was locked and whipped for it with shouts of “your love is not love!” She’d find a new place to eat every day. This …
Read More »The Observer and the Observed: How Do We Let Art Do What it Does Best?
There are people who see the world as a canvas and then they paint the world with emotions, colours, moves and words. Every time you see a person doing that you call him an artist. Indeed he is an artist because he makes you see what you usually fail to …
Read More »The Culture of Dissidence: Why Heavy Metal Chose Me
When you put on your earphones, plug into a song and feel the world around you dissolve into nothingness, you need to understand that the notes, tunes, rhythms and vibrations that are entering your ears are more than just sounds that cause changes in the way the chemicals in your …
Read More »The Way of The Void: The Art of being an Artist
What does it mean to be an artist? Well, this is what Terence McKenna had to say about artists, “The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey …
Read More »On the Stream of Consciousness: What Happens When You Surrender to Music
Have you ever tried to observe your thoughts and the constant flow of these voices in your head, sometimes loud and daunting, while sometimes they are almost negligible in volume. The one thing you need to do in order to observe your thoughts is to look at them as if …
Read More »Art and Expression: What is it all about?
When you hear the word “art”, what comes into mind? For me, being an artist is essentially a way to help me get rid of all the baggage in my head and zone out into a space between the vibrations of the guitar strings and the uniformly erratic rhythm of …
Read More »Communication through Music: The World of Visual Sound
Communication is the deliberate conveying of a message, non-verbally or verbally. Everyone communicates. Artists make an effort to communicate with society at large. Musicians are no different. Why music is universally appealing is perhaps because it does something we’re all guilty of doing at some point or the other… It …
Read More »Talking without Speaking: Communication in the Void
“It takes one-tenth of a second for an individual to create a first impression, which is usually a lasting impression” stated Zaq to the beautiful woman on the right. She crossed her legs, inched a step back, alerted her eyes and put on a fake smile to let the thought …
Read More »Communicating with Animals: The Voices of the Primal
We humans can easily communicate with each other. We just need to punch some keys on the device and the message will be sent and received in a fraction of seconds. The convenience of communication in the age of today has become a sort of mask on our approach towards …
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