The Tree of Life

'Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?'
'The nun taught us there are two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow'

'Mother. Father.

Always you wrestle inside me.

Always you will.'

'Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.'

'Where were You? You let a boy die. You let anything happen. Why should I be good? When You aren't'

I finally got to watch The Tree of Life last night at Cinemanova. It has been around for so long and I was intrigued by the great actors who are starring in it. Curiousity killed a cat. I have a feeling that people can either love or hate the movie. I personally float in between. I expected more out of the movie, more of a clearer story plot to narrate this genius idea. But apart from that, the movie was hauntingly beautiful. It takes forms of natures, the birth and the death of all with very little dialogue but once spoken, the words can move a mountain. It's also very biblical in some ways, and the story is not completely centered on a tragic event due to the loss of the character's son, instead.. it shows you the cycle of life through the main characters. At first, I actually felt like I was watching something out of Discovery Channel (or some sort) in HD ... and I really reallly hoped a real story would come up, which thank God it did. It might be difficult to understand as it's more of a philosophical journey rather than a fictional movie to me. It came to no surprise though, Terrece Mallick was a philosopher before be became a director. Anywho, go watch it if you're interested, it's beautiful. Very vague but beautiful. At least, that's what I think.

Carefully Scrutinizing

Interrupted, in a good way that is. It is nice to go out after hours and hours being in front of the laptop freaking my brain and eyeballs out. I blame my essays for wanting me to have no life whilst Zaky was here. I finally met up with him though last night who visited Melbourne again all the way from Gold Coast and around the world. I had a really good time! Although I wish I wasn't so tired and sleepy towards the end... came home so late and half light-headed which caused me to wake up outside schedule today. I was supposed to go to NGV at 10, but I caught up anyways by taking a real quick shower. I love going to NGV, it's a shame that I never really had the time to fully explore the museum, so I think today was quite nice. I kind of giggled a bit looking at Mark Rothko's work as it reminds me of when I visited his exhibition at Tate's London. My friends and I knew nothing about the meaning of an abstract work and could not understand why he would spend his life painting just colours, whereas some people would even cry looking at his works. It is meant to be emotionally intriguing so based on that, I guess I started to read more about the background of Rothko's works and fell in love with all the colours.

Word

I have been folding a lot of papers for my design studio lately, not necessarily transforming them into some beautiful origami, just random ones that look proportionally fine as I try to construct fields as they unfold. So basically, the idea of folding papers is like narrating a story, a process, or a journey and it will be quite interesting because we're going to insert images and haiku into the fields. Apart from folding papers, this project focuses on a lot of practical works like printmaking and drawing techniques.. oh yes.. I drew Tim today and it actually looked quite awesome, I made him look juuustt a tiiiny bittt liiike a stonehenge. I will put it up soon maybe.
I'm pretty sure everyone has one of those times where they crave for something really bad. The pictures above depict exactly it, one of those random nights again where I crave for pandan coconut + chocolate gelatos at 11 o'clock. All that I needed was a time waster so kudos to Freddo who should be nominated as one of the best place to eat gelatoss, ever and ever and forever. It's cheaper compared to the others especially knowing that they have got a very good range of flavours. One thing that also makes me go there is because of this certain photograph that I am always intrigued by. I just love everyone's expressions, it feels theatrical but not so at the same time? I feel sorry for the woman who looks so intimidated by the kinky glares of the males haha, reminds me so much of when I used to live in Qatar, never go alone to a public place if you're a woman. Anyways, I am unsure who took this photograph though, it's uncredited on the frame so I took a picture in case some day I come across it on the internet or something.
Last but not least, Rachel Comey's ready to wear spring colleccctioooon consists of all the awesomeness of my neeeeeeeeds.

What do you see up in the sky?

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All is well when there is a touch of blue.