Be
it a sketch, a drawing, a picture or painting, or a photograph; some
actually speak up to you or tell you stories. From my very young years, I
was fascinated especially by the traditional Chinese ink and brush
paintings. With just a few dollops of ink, used with great skill and
precise control, so that it drops just the right amount of ink on to
the parchment (paper made with calf, sheep or goatskin), or silk or
canvas; the different shade does created creates just the right depth
and shades. The finished work often looks so very simple that makes you
invariably think, mistakenly, how simple and easy it is yet, it
conveys not just the visually self explainable picture or scene, but
'tells' feelings, emotions and stories, even profound and complicated
ones.
I
started young to attempt first copying and later inventing my own
pictures. Never got one single result to satisfy my own very critical
idea of how it should be but frustratingly impossible to make it
materialize. So there have been start & stop, off & on period
for I lost count how many times and how many years. One day I just say
to myself that, sadly, I needed I don't exactly know what to become a
reasonable painter of such art, let alone my deep-down desire to be a
good one. So I gave up, albeit very reluctantly.
It
didn't stop me forget about it all together though. Once in a blue moon
I would make some rough sketches to represent this and that, rather
casually, so as not to feel utter disappointment again.
This
picture below, does it tell you something? Like: The ascension of
China, with it's centuries long culture and civilization till the 18th
century, then became desperately poor during 150 years and, since 1979,
re-emerged once again, steadily, to become now the country with the
most dynamic economy & sustainable power of the world.
The Ascension Of China On A Bicycle
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