Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Inks and Watercolors

If only we could live as simply as corn,
Welcoming the rain on our husks...Self-Portrait... medusa?Dancing ArlequinNot sure what this is...

Why don't we fly kites more often?

In Bed-Stuy, a day like any other day,
people in the streets, walking, chatting, honking,
it's a nice day,
a daddy and his kid in the middle of the road, flying a kite like it's the most natural thing in the world,
like we're on the beach, like we're on a cliff...
so unreal...

Inverted Sketches...

SarahSherry

Monday, May 23, 2011

Pastels meet Photoshop

Strange Rain Creature


Near NYU, on graduation day, there are some interesting sights,
But fashion gazing gets really worth it only when the flooding rain starts.

Vivid Naomi

Pastels on black roll of paper...

Strange Brooklyn Trees


Strange trees harbour the streets of Brooklyn.
This is the same tree, though heads and toes don't really make sense...
- Downtown Brooklyn

Survivor Drawings


These self-portraits were made in December 2010 and were rescued from the fire last March 2011... Thanks Naomi!!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

A beautiful moment

A tribute to my favourite moment of the day:

Between night and day
Sleep and awakening
Where dreams and reality embrace,
Nonsensical ideas espouse rational thoughts
Future memories come alive
Creativity rises at its best
Grounded by practicality
Dosing till the second alarm rings
Savoring
Absorbing
Modelling
Light.
End -
Keep the light.

"I Feel, But I Don't Understand" - Kant

... and yet we constantly try to understand...
is it necessary to reason about feelings?
why not let them be?
some things we can not explain, and maybe it's okay.

A Strange Apparition

... on my way home
riding my bike
not so late at night
in the streets of Brooklyn,
from the corner of my eye something flee(t)ing...
a rat? too big for that
a cat? with a strange demeanour
perhaps an acrobat
or a racoon-like visitor

In Nature there's Culture...?

In Prospect Park: at the center of a circle of trees,
a half naked man rests with his laptop on his knees...

Sherry with Maracas - Reworked 10 min sketch

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Schopenhauer's Porcupines

Human beings' constant struggle: because as social beings, we feel the need for interaction and human contact, yet it is necessary to keep at a reasonable distance from each other so as not to hurt one another...

"A “company of porcupines” who “crowded themselves very close together one cold winter’s day so as to profit by one another’s warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death. But soon they felt one another’s quills, which induced them to separate again.” And so on. The porcupines were “driven backwards and forwards from one trouble to the other,” until they found “a mean distance at which they could most tolerably exist.”
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/prochnik.php

The library's solution to rats

10 min sketches


Urban Sketches (in Brooklyn and Vietnam) on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hallx/with/5701380041/