Strolling through Saatchi Gallery this weekend I viewed the ‘Hong Kong Eye 2012’ exhibition by Prudential. I didn’t like it at all – maybe because my expectations were too high; maybe because of Asian artists’ usual obsession for kitsch. But amid plush toys and plastic sculptures, I found these perfectly executed drawings by Angela Su … Continue reading
Introversion is not a bad attitude!
“Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.” Tim LaHaye “Solitude matters.” Susan Cain Group work is the new paradigm of ‘successful learning’. It is generally assumed that groups can draw on various talents of diverse members and therefore synthesize … Continue reading
Postmodern times – an era of cynicism?
“If you do not express your own ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” – Rollo May Postmodernity has strangled idealism. Woodly Allen was right when he pointed out that not only ‘God is dead’, but also Marxism, feminism or humanism. We live in an era in … Continue reading