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“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.” – Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way

”You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -- Rabindranath Tagore.

We lose our thoughts in our head. Our heads, they seem like big places where loads of memories, songs, pictures, smells, feelings can hide. Sometimes they pile on top of each other crushing a few below. Beneath some such pile of thoughts lies the beginning of this blog. I don't think there was one solid reason or decision to begin chamko rani glitter collection but there was a pile of them. Thought about thoughts, words about words, poems, places, people and the wish to tell people, to hear from people. A chain of inspiration to fill heads with large piles of thoughts and thoughts that connect other thoughts to them and make picture paintings ,and love, all gooey and mushy and fluorescent.

GET INSPIRED TO INSPIRE

I'm looking at a blank canvas and thinking about what to put on it. Painting my first canvas.

Looking down on paper, I think sometimes, just the amount of time spent on it and the thoughts that are thought around it and over it precipitate and add to the painting. Leave a few words to inspire my first canvas. All advice, tips welcome.
lotsa love,
chamki

Dear Santa,

so here is my list.

1. I want some studio space, to paint big, and to dance big.
2. I want a longer christmas vacation and 45 days long January before the big international dance festival the institute is organising.
3. to be able to sleep less and work more.
4. to see with eyes shut.
5. cerelac
6. a xiao
7. and all the things that remain from last years list.

(Vats, my attempt at getting back to blogging. I don't really have much to say.)

8. The earring I lost last night. Its my favourite.

yours with love,
chamaks