Sunday, February 12, 2006
Regret
This is a painting that I started months (or maybe even hit the one year mark) ago. I don't know why, but it's just taken so so SOOOO long to complete. Maybe it's cos of its less than positive title. Or the less than happy thoughts associated with it. Haha, excuses for my plain laziness.
Anyway. Inspiration came from this poem - something I remembered from my secondary school days:
Well the message is, quite obviously, Carpe Diem, that is, Sieze the Day. Things that you've not done in life, opportunities missed; grab them before it's too late. Cliched, but many have said that the saddest words in the world are "if only".
Do you ever feel like you're looking at your life from a third-person point of view? Watching the paths that you take, the obstacles and miracles you come across daily, the risks taken, and chances you missed. This intricate interweaving and connectedness of your life with others; this amazing way time just zooms past you like, well, Taz; the vines, branches, and weeds, that cloud your vision every day; the way one half of you wants to muster up all that energy to gather the damn roses, yet the other half just wants to bask in the sunshine, and, you know,"relak lar."
Well obviously the picture's not complete. And I decided to post it here in it's state of incompletion because a good friend told me once, why not leave it incomplete... contributes to the significance of its meaning - regret. Hmmm. I may one day decide to complete it.
Or then again, maybe not? Well we'll see. =)
This is a painting that I started months (or maybe even hit the one year mark) ago. I don't know why, but it's just taken so so SOOOO long to complete. Maybe it's cos of its less than positive title. Or the less than happy thoughts associated with it. Haha, excuses for my plain laziness. Anyway. Inspiration came from this poem - something I remembered from my secondary school days:
Gather ye roses while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying,
And that same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
- Robert Herrick, 1648
'To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time'
Well the message is, quite obviously, Carpe Diem, that is, Sieze the Day. Things that you've not done in life, opportunities missed; grab them before it's too late. Cliched, but many have said that the saddest words in the world are "if only".
Do you ever feel like you're looking at your life from a third-person point of view? Watching the paths that you take, the obstacles and miracles you come across daily, the risks taken, and chances you missed. This intricate interweaving and connectedness of your life with others; this amazing way time just zooms past you like, well, Taz; the vines, branches, and weeds, that cloud your vision every day; the way one half of you wants to muster up all that energy to gather the damn roses, yet the other half just wants to bask in the sunshine, and, you know,"relak lar."
Well obviously the picture's not complete. And I decided to post it here in it's state of incompletion because a good friend told me once, why not leave it incomplete... contributes to the significance of its meaning - regret. Hmmm. I may one day decide to complete it.
Or then again, maybe not? Well we'll see. =)
# posted by Mel @ 6:52 PM 
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ah thank god! a post finally!! haha i remember you telling me about this poem and this painting. i can just imagine, 100 years down the road, your painting will be in a museum and as the guide brings the group past, she will say, "and in front of you is a painting by the great Mel entitled "regret". she took years and years to paint it but alas, she never completed it..." and everyone will go, "whoa! no kidding! wow! the great mel! her famous incomplete painting!!! i've finally seen it, the holy grail of paintings!!"
and the story ends before shireen writes the whole da meltan code here! (couldn't thnk of a nicer name=P)
love ya! =)
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and the story ends before shireen writes the whole da meltan code here! (couldn't thnk of a nicer name=P)
love ya! =)
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