Old Musings

Hello friends!

Have you ever been in exile? Believe it or not, I was, for over a year around 2003. Don't worry, I wasn't in jail but the wardens were my parents. To this day, I look back and think of that phase in my life as the "dark age" spiraling downwards into a black hole.

Ironically, it was also a time when I found my creative potential despite having gone to art school years prior. It must be all those idle times that made me think what a solitary creature I really am!

Here are a few documented reminders that make looking back during those times less disheartening.

Enjoy!

Cindy Gonzales - Kujat

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I'm pulling my head back

The wound on my neck to show

The many times you made me think

I could be greater

Than God.

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I serve you my spoilt heart

On a silver platter

With a silver fork

But I'm still not worth your gold.

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It felt like closing your eyes from the strobes of light

While the beating of your heart rocks your whole weight

But it's only a moment of another miracle as we fall into slumber.

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Oh, a tender loving heart

Is a tender hand climbing up front

The second helping

Is always reminiscent

Of the first intrusion.

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Around the World: Aerial Photos of Yann Arthus-Bertrand

We often forget how beautiful the world we live in in the rush of the daily grind. We hardly ever take a moment to sit still with our heads up to enjoy the blue skies, birds chirping and leaves on trees swooshing as the gentle breeze of the air discreetly pass us by. We take all these things for granted and yet from time to time we bump into something that reminds us on how beautiful the world truly is. Sometimes, slowing down to open your eyes is all that it takes for the world to enthrall you with its beauty.

For aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, however, it's just part of his five-year airborne odyssey documenting through his lens the world as we rarely see it. So, if you need a reminder to make you appreciate Earth more, here are some of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's amazing works.

Amazon River, Brazil

Bazaar of Istanbul, Turkey

Boats stranded on the dry Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

Coal mine, South Africa

Easter Island, Chile

Elephants on the Savannah, Botswana

Epicenter of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Fraser Island Dune, Australia

Freeways in Los Angeles, USA

Gullholmen, Sweden

Hashima Island, Japan

Louver and Ile De La Cite in Paris, France

Machu Picchu, Peru

Military Cemetery, Verdun, France

Pigeon Houses Mit Gahmr Delta, Egypt

Ruins of the Medieval City of Shali, Egypt

Solar Plant in Andalusia, Spain

Stockholm, Sweden

Tasmania, Australia

The Changping District in Beijing, China

Varanasi, India

Walled City of Dubrovnik, Croatia

Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand

To see more of his wonderful works, click here.

Definitely another beautiful topic to write about, don't you think?

Happy writing!

Cindy Gonzales-Kujat

Paper (and flower) Art : Kari Herer

A repost from my Facebook Notes 10/09/2009.

"BOTANICAL ART IN THE NEW"

This morning, I tried to understand the last images I have left engraved in my thoughts from the sleep I just woke up from...dream residue. I only caught one scene in a shabby house with a makeshift bed in the center. The main focus shifted to a baby, my baby lying next to me his body warm and safe. I'm not sure if in my dream when I was still in it, if it was a real human baby, because my mind now argues that it was a polar bear cub! My heart cringed at the memory, I so love polar bears and I grieve over their increasingly desperate fight for survival. It must explain why I scoured the web pages for flowers mix with whatever comes close to my vision of a rotten corpse. My search turned up these beautiful works by photographer Kari Herer. Each piece reminds me of those flowers in the graveyard set adrift in a sea of melancholia.

Check out more of Kari Herer's work here and shop her Etsy shop for these lovely, one-of-a-kind prints.

Another exquisite work of art to write about!

Happy writing!

Cindy Gonzales-Kujat