by evawongnava | Apr 27, 2020 | Blog
As history repeats itself, so will art. Revisiting the books, stories, and paintings created after past plagues can help contextualize our lives under the specter of COVID-19—and predict the stories we may tell as a result.” JANE BORDEN, Vanity Fair A friend and...
by evawongnava | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog
Liu Kang, Life by the River, 1957, oil on canvas, 126 x 203 cm (National Gallery Singapore) When Liu Kang painted Life By the River in 1975, it had already been a little over 20 years since he discovered Bali’s charms and colours. He didn’t plan on starting an art...
by evawongnava | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog
Life has a way to meander and lead you to places that you’ve never thought you’d go or imagine going. Life finds a Way, as the saying goes. On Viruses and Finding a Way Around A virus is also a type of life form that finds a way, in my view, but according to...
by admin | Sep 29, 2018 | Blog
Echo is a nymph in Greek mythology who was cursed by Hera, the goddess of Marriage and Family, and the wife of Zeus, to repeat only the last words spoken to her. Hera was just mad at her husband’s shenanigans and Echo was the scapegoat of her wrath, in my view....
by admin | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog
“Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” — Wikipedia. In my book, Open – A Boy’s Wayang Adventure, the protagonist,...