Footfalls in the Memory

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~ T.S. Eliot

This Old House

"This ole house once knew his children
This ole house once knew his wife
This ole house was home and comfort
As they fought the storms of life
This old house once rang with laughter
This old house heard many shouts
Now he trembles in the darkness
When the lightnin' walks about........."

"The old house" painted in 2008: It is inspired by what I remember of my grandmother's house

Colour Purple

" I think it annoys God if you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice." ~ Alice Walker, from The Colour Purple

We noticed, and remembered much later....

Gold Leaves

“Gold Leaves” by G K Chesterton

Lo! I am come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold;
Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out
The year and I are old.
In youth I sought the prince of men,
Captain in cosmic wars,
Our Titan, even the weeds would show
Defiant, to the stars.
But now a great thing in the street
Seems any human nod,
Where shift in strange democracy
The million masks of God.
In youth I sought the golden flower
Hidden in wood or wold,
But I am come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold.

That's how the last painting came into being.

A bird sings because it has a song

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” - Maya Angelou.

Visualizing complex stuff

In this painting by Lizzie Burns, you can really visualize the sound vibrations reaching deep inside the eardrum!

And in this painting, Burns says she imagined thousands of tiny single DNA strands resembling a tiny microscopic cornfield.

Children can immediately identify with all the movement, and life forms when you make stories and paintings about complex stuff. You could read more about Lizzie Burns at

http://www.lablit.com/article/29

Art Musings

I have not had time to write about my paintings, but I have been painting! Since the website is up ( www.mitabrahma.com ) I decided I need not necessarily write about my paintings here. What I would also like to do is follow and share about people I feel have something in common with me - people in alternate professionals making a foray into art; women artists; artists from India; people who took up art at a later stage of life and so on....