New look to the site, new intro needed I reckon.
Is the title Life Work pretentious? Well, I wanted something to reflect that this site is both about my life and my work, and I am happy to be at an age where the two things aren’t one and the same. If you can come up with something better, I’m all ears (as my mother used to tell me regularly when I was little and the said body parts stuck out something chronic!). And anyway, these days, keeping a site fresh is a life work anyway, right?
In which spirit, here’s a quote from the brilliant artist Bridget Riley which is one of the most perfect descriptions I have come across about the process of how I approach my work and, I hope, my life:
‘For me, drawing is an inquiry, a way of finding out – the first thing that I discover is that I do not know. This is alarming even to the point of momentary panic. Only experience reassures me that the encounter with my own ignorance – with the unknown – is my chosen and particular task, and provided that I can make the requried effort the rewards may reach the unimaginable. It is as though there is an eye at the end of my pencil, which tries, independently of my personal general-purpose eye, to penetrate a kind of obscuring veil or thickness. To break down this thickness, this deadening opacity, to elicit some particle of clarity or insight, is what I want to do. The strange thing is that the information I am looking for is, of course, there all the time and as present to one’s naked eye, so to speak, as it ever will be. But to get the essentials down there on my sheet of paper so tha I can recover and see again what I have just seen, that is what I have to push towards.’
Bridget Riley,At the End of My Pencil,London Review of Books, Vol 31. No 19. 8 October 2009
I told, you, pretentious when I get the opportunity!
I hope the buttons at the right tweak your interest enough for you to enter the site proper. If you find anything you like, hey, go ahead and make my day and copy it, though I’d love a little credit if you do. If you find any of the site not working too hot, email me and I’ll see what gives.
And may Sri Ganesh (the guy with the elephant head and too many arms) remove all the obstacles in your life, unless he get’s too busy removing mine.
