Inspire

Back to the source

I take inspiration from contemporary jazz, my relationships, childhood, to name a few. But it is also the materials involved in making art that inspire me. Sometimes the craving of the sound of pencil scratching paper or mixing paints together into a new color is what propels me to create.

Poetry and I

Much like paintings, poems can be regarded instantaneously and yet are like deep wells that never run out of potency. In my youth, I have discovered how words in poetry bore a different weight, as if they were made of a different fabric, something more luminous and powerful. I like how a poet can make each syllable pulsate, make each word paint with colors. I took up writing poems as I fell in love with composing with words, subjecting them to rhythm and aligning them with imagery. This compositional element of poetry is something I feel strongly drawn to till this day.

Favorite poets

Rumi, Rilke, Japanese Zen monks..

The bedside book

“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami. Not a poetry book in a traditional sense, yet it is Murakami’s inventive metaphors and his attention to the sensory world that makes his prose all the more enchanting.

Against all odds..

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

― Albert Camus, Notebooks,1935 - 1951