Happy Thoughts

In this unusual period, with all uncertainty and not very good news surrounding everyday, I am still meeting nice people and receiving great positive energy!! I am thankful for all that. Today is my birthday on Chinese lunar calendar, Hehehehe, happy birthday to myself and happy dumplings festival to everyone!

My birthday wishes is to walk on the right path in this life time, to have good people around me to do the right things, to practice loving kindness together. Here are my new work in progress in aids of supporting Colors of Cambodia Charity art project. I am painting with lots of love and joys, radiating this great energy to the very kind and generous friends who love art, and believing in ART WILL SAFE THE WORLD!

To be able to continue giving art education to Cambodian students who have dreams in art and wanting to persuade their education, is the best contribution I ever do and give to the society. Of course, all these will only becoming true with all your supports. The world without art you can only see the history through writing....a country without art you see only some part of the culture.... individuals lives without art you see less beauty in life...Looking at a piece of art on the wall, we allowing our senses to become quiet for a moment ...

The world without art you can only see the history through writing....a country without art you see only some part of the culture.... individuals lives without art you see less beauty in life...

Looking at a piece of art on the wall, we allowing our senses to become quiet for a moment ...

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Middle Path

“ Middle Path “

2020

Oil on Canvas

153cm x 92cm

indulgence

self-denial

attachment

aversion

tension

paradox

sorrow

suffering

understanding

thought

speech

action

livelihood

effort

mindfulness

concentration

ease

grace

within

Inner

beyond

universal

truth

awaken

love

peace

liberation

very life

rightness

believe

practice

middle path

“I am an Artist, I talk Art”

“I am an Artist, I talk Art”

19th July 2020

Being interview, videoing and sitting in-front of a few cameras made me nervous and not able to talk properly. MY GOSH!!!! It took me a long while to accept the way I look and how I speak .

I would prefer to be at the back stage actually, but I also understand that I must learn to talk and share more about what I am doing as an artist and my involvement with the charity art project Colors of Cambodia ~ “art will safe the world”! My heartfelt thanks to April Chin , Andy Chow, Yuen James, Irene Wan, and Rekha Menon , for their dedication in the collaborationist “I am Artist, I talk Art”.

And, and and.... thousands times of thank you for the precious time, efforts, guidance and patience given to me throughout the whole interview sessions. I am grateful for the platform and promoting via this wonderful ways. So, here I am, presenting you a short video of me, interview by Andy Chow from Malaysia Advance Photographer Group (MAPG).

Enjoy .... and then oh.....Please LIKE, SHARE, SUBCRIBE the YouTube to help spreading the good word and love of arts.

Nymphea Caerulea

“Nymphaea caerulea” ~ Sacred Blue Lily of the Nile (Egyptians) and “Nelumbo nucifera” ~ Blue Lotus = Lotus Eaters (India) are equally beautiful and spiritual. For me to observe how Water lily ( Numphaea Caerylea ) which is depictions of the floral symbol of Upper Egypt grown is a significant experience.

This beautiful flower was shown throughout Egypt in the tombs and temples. It is to symbolise the union of Upper and Lower Egypt. The blue water lily is actually had a much deeper significance to the Egyptian people. It is the symbol of the sun of creation and re-birth.

I love seeing the intense golden center set against the blue petals is just so beautiful and magic... light radiants through the centre of the heart..... awwwwww! It’s a real blessing in the morning, soul awaken.

I hope this series of photo la I took on the midday will bring you good energy, and here’s a beautiful wiring about Blue Lily from Vasselin, K., The Waters of Chaos. (Resources from Caroline Seawright).

“In the beginning were the waters of chaos. Darkness and silence reigned but in the depths of the watery abyss lay the formless spirit of the Creator, the father and mother of all things... Darkness covered the waters until magical day that the Primeval Water Lily rose from the abyss. Slowly the blue water lily opened its petals to reveal a young god sitting in its golden heart. A sweet perfume drifted across the waters and light streamed from the body of this Divine Child to banish universal darkness.

This child was the Creator, the Sun God, the source of all life but every evening a water lily sinks below the surface and does not rise again until dawn. So the Primeval Water Lily closed its petals at the end of each day and vanished back into the waters. Chaos reigned through the night until the god within the water lily returned. “

p/s: mmmm.... Lily does not sink below the surface though.

Life

Life is a suffering ?! Or life is a lesson? Mmmm.... How are we living our life ? To have a happy life or miserable life? Well, my life wasn’t easy during my early age, to choose to walk the path of motherhood at the age 23, and having to earn that little RM600 salary per month, and then divorced later.... Challenging eh! But all the hard works does pay off. Boys are now grownups....both of them are my most precious !!! No matter how tough the life was, no regrets!

With persistence and continue to dreams, I did, and have make some of my dreams comes true. We do have the right to choose which we want 

Another 3 years for me to mark my 50th. So, I have been looking back, acknowledging the good and bad that had happened in my life and making reflections everyday and night during this unusual period. Also thinking.... what are the things that I wish to do and need to do before I move into another chapter of life.

I am observing my changes in physical body, inner self and spiritual practice....hahaha..all are good, and improving... so, yes, that’s the way to go!

Cheers for being still alive and to record my life journey! Cheers for all of you that come to my life! Cheers  for all the lessons to learn, to grow and to be a better person.

Budding

Ahhhhhh!!! Blue lotus is budding now ...I am holding my heart, taking deep breath looking at this little bud in the water.

I am so thankful for the life forces given by the nature at home, to give me the opportunity to learn and watch these beautiful life closely from another realm.

Reflection of life and gratitude is makes each day when I am in the garden, be with the plants, getting close to what I have from the nature... Life is not easy during this pandemic but there’s always a way to go go forward....having positive attitude does help.

Poh Cheng

Consciousness and Subconsciousness

New watercolours in progress!

Let’s see how it goes and what will evoke between the consciousness and subconscious! With the thinking of movements, form and colours and the combination of inner silence, the wakefulness and mindfulness that may heighten and the opening of the heart that may cultivate......

The forces of reckoning between who we are, who we think we are, and who we actually could be....is still strong, and deep in my heart.

Arts has the eternal truth.......

Self Portrait

I think the self is fascinating, to discover this body that we are carrying since the day we were born. The continuing changes on the body that we are “using” everyday, the breaths that take into the body keep the life continue...thinking that responses to all that happens in life....feelings that could bring suffering and happiness...all this happens in the body of every one, no one can escape except we no longer can breath.

I have been asking myself who am I for years.....What is the purpose of being a human being? Why I was born as a human not animals or others? The path of seeking deeper understanding of this inward beings in variety ways has been a long journey but it eventually leads me to who I am today.

The process of making self portrait is the experience of me relating myself to the rest of the world. There are times I think how would I like to be remembered for? What have life really bring to me? What is best qualities in myself? Creativity does help me in finding my way back to what I already know, already are, always have been, and always will be.

I am aware of the changes and transformations in life, some times the changes can be really challenging and painful but this is a real life lessons and it is important to reflect on experiences and how they affect one’s self.

Life moves on and so should we....

These self portraits did in 2017 represent and perpetuate of own personal mythologies. For physical and spiritual bodies to shape and embark on the rest of my life journey, is to connect the willing and thinking realms with the rhythm of feeling of these three aspects for well beings.

The discovery of the higher parts of nature in me, understand dharma, walk on right path, giving and receiving that comes only from oneself....which may be discovered and expressed one day, through art.

Smile, there’s Art

Yessss!! 1st of the 3 paintings that will be complete soon.

I enjoy holding the brush, watching the colour, form, movement and element emerge, in which, holding my inner thought and purpose.

I am having the absolute freedom! The awakening of body and soul would ripple across the planet and universe. Yes, Spiritual freedom, that is necessary in art as it is in life... as what Kandinsky mentioned in his Concerning The Spiritual In Art.

There is another beautiful feeling of creating this painting, that is the deeds of loving kindness that serves the purpose.

Divine Lotus

"Divine Lotus"

2020

38cm x 26cm

Watercolour on paper

The Lotus, is symbol of the light of compassion, opens its petals of the heart. Divine fragrance spreads when the petals of the heart unfold....It grows into the full bloom of peaceful contentment, just like my life unfolding and blooming. I find inner strength and beauty as I face hard times and overcome obstacles.

Love, gratitude, compassion and kindness are the cause of all enduring… and it’s a wonderful experience in this fundamental principle of life.

The experiences I had in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in the past ten years have enabled me to practice Metta and to be a better person.

Working with children from underprivileged families, seeing their wish to continue study and their acceptance and tolerance, has awoken me.

The Dalai Lama said, ’Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us tranquillity and the happiness we all seek’. This is what I truly believe, since my connection with Cambodian children.

I paint and create because of the need to express my thoughts and feelings imaginatively, spontaneously and authentically. Over time the gathering of these wonderful experiences leads to emotional fulfilment and to the transformation of the inner self.

We are all so deeply interconnected: to love, to be kind and to do good is what we all should practice in this life time. Life is a circle: just like all flowers, beauty is fleeting so that even the Lotus flower must die. This shows the endless cycle of life, death and rebirth.....

Love is the blossoming of heaven. I find affection and everything I need, and loving kindness is the seed of joy and happiness and the ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.