Nature has always worked mysteriously and wondrously — in a structured yet organic manner. The imaginative painted picture of nature in our heads is presumed, but the spark when experiencing nature bodily will always be ethereal.

This is an introspection — an open dialogue to ruminate.




Sights of Armchair Travelling
I close my eyes and extend my index finger. With a swift swipe on the glass screen, the oblate spheroid spins. And with another quick tap, the spheroid stops in motion.

Google Earth is ingenious. A simple touch brings you onto a foreign path within seconds. Also, not forgetting a community where hundreds of thousands share photographs of their travels with the world. Through the lenses of these people, their point of view and experience, stopped in motion the moment after clicking the shutter. 

For every location that I visited, I penned them and blocked in the colours selectively. It has then become a part of my experience. I felt them all, and I hope it bridges to you. 

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Here, They Exist

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(Re)flection
9 x 12 inch

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Whispers of Life
9 x 12 inch

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Come Full Circle
9 x 12 inch

If only Gaia can hear me,
the winds can embrace me,
and the clouds can shelter me.
A cycle it goes,
at an uncatchable pace.
Come full circle, 
the seed will then begin to flourish.
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Sustentation
9 x 12 inch

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Influences Of The Sun
9 x 12 inch

Growth, comes from the light,
and the darkness beneath.
Light, as paradoxical it may seem,
shoulders the scale driven by the intensity.
Darkness, the obscure luminosity, 
bridging towards growth.
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Time, Subsides
9 x 12 inch

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Towards Perpetuity
9 x 12 inch

In the space of eternity
At the break of dawn
Rings of gentle touches caress the pool of
Memories, held up by the twisted branches
And at its end
Everything that once held a place
Joins the flow toward perpetuity



The World On Another Plane

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The Glint From Afar
297 x 420 mm

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Distraction
297 x 420 mm

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Ascent
297 x 420 mm

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Distraction
297 x 420 mm

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Through the Garden of Whites and Pinks
297 x 420 mm
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A Conversation
297 x 420 mm

Through the arch of serenity 
Lays a weary warrior. 
Loosely clinging onto a string 
Performing to an audience of none. 
Like a war of flowers and weeds 
Concocted by a person of invisibility, 
And savored by an entity.

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A Release
210 x 297  mm

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Alleviate
297 x 420 mm

Victors seize the flames. 
The flickering sparks that tail the fallen. 
Ashes serve as the only remnants of the past. 
Disremembered and rewritten, 
Throughout the lengths of our existence. 
Memory turns into a fable 
Till we dug into the earth, 
And uncover what was buried and lost.
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Transitions - Dawn
210 x 297  mm

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Transitions - Dusk
210 x 297  mm

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Aftermath
9 x 10.2 inch

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Arrival of January's Sun
23.6 x 35.4 inch

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Your Mind
17.8 x 23.6 inch

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Solace
210 x 297  mm



Speculative Botany

210 x 297 mm


Nature Study

140 diameter x 210 mm
Carcass found on the garden floor



Future’s New World

210 x 297 mm


It Is Almost Like A Wonderland

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And The Wind Blew
210 x 297 mm

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Before Dawn
210 x 297 mm

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Even Big, Nothing Is Too Wide
210 x 297 mm

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Hide
210 x 297 mm

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Looking Back; Afresh
210 x 297 mm

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Pursuit and Pursue
210 x 297 mm

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Separation (Wishing to be on the other side)
210 x 297 mm

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Solidarity
210 x 297 mm

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Something Beyond
210 x 297 mm

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Still
210 x 297 mm

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Take Me There
210 x 297 mm

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Wide World After All
210 x 297 mm

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Arid Land Towards Shore
210 x 297 mm

It was stale, 
But calming. 
It was warm, 
But comforting. 
Stretching across vast lands 
I lay my feet 
And put me to rest.

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Below The Hollow Rise
210 x 297 mm

An unknown territory.
This unfamiliar place.
Heightened my senses,
And tingled my nerves.
It was an awful unsettling feeling.
An unscratchable itch.
I trudged with precarious steps.
A part of me hopes for the worst,
To be over and done.
Putting an ending to this story,
Someone once told me that
It is okay to surrender.
To let go.
To feel what is beneath.
Slouch your body,
Arch your back,
And tumble onto the earth.
No longer I am here
Nor there.
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By The Forsaken Mountain
210 x 297 mm

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Edge of Delicate
210 x 297 mm

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Hill and Mirage
210 x 297 mm

Blinked once.
All were meticulously polished
With leftover residual haze.
A clear sensation is replaced with distortion,
Grasping the line with difficulty
For what it seems close gets further
To the edge of the plains.
Which was real?

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Iceberg
210 x 297 mm

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Looking Up From The Abyss
210 x 297 mm

Hanging by a thread, 
She said it’s okay to let go. 
The abyss below may seem dark and narrow. 
Light after all 
Is a seed of darkness. 
And soon, 
All creatures will once again gather to celebrate.

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Meandering River Through Misty Hill
210 x 297 mm

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Mountain Slope
210 x 297 mm

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Overlooking Waterfall
210 x 297 mm

Words cascading with no regards
To what you have promised.
A convenient lie for a transient life
Like a mayfly, fleeting it may seem.

Gentle strokes, rhythmic ripples.
Liberated by the precipitous drop
And with the last crash,
Everything disperses.

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Pacific Flow
210 x 297 mm

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Passage Towards Highland
210 x 297 mm

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Passing Through The Canal
210 x 297 mm
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Rocks Crossing River
210 x 297 mm

I wonder if it’s okay
For me to be reminded
All the good times we once had.
Arbitrary fun,
Laughing to nonsense,
Chasing tails with no care for the world.
We grew apart
And I think I know why.
I wish I had an explanation
To finally cross this rocky path,
But I have none.

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Rocks On Slope At Dusk
210 x 297 mm

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Skies Are Violet
210 x 297 mm

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Uneven Ascent
210 x 297 mm

The pavement of stones
Uneven and raw
Cold to the touch yet
Keeps your blood warm.  

A spurt of fiery red,
Anger ruminating.
For this long perilous walk
Is ever so tiring.

I stood firmly into the soil
In front of a trail of footprints.
Waiting for the wind
To erase them all away.

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Vantage Point Overlooking (In)significant
210 x 297 mm

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View From Precipice
210 x 297 mm

Who am I to judge. 
Is there a rulebook? 
How do we weigh 
The scale between you and me.
To watch from above 
On the precipice of what we have built.
Not to look down but beyond
And absorb.

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Whispering Woodland
210 x 297 mm

Whispers caressing my ear. 
Gentle strokes of glimmer. 
And the stillness of silence
That came afterward is like
Hope and fear moving in tandem.

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Yellow Field and Distant Mountain
210 x 297 mm

Wildflowers aplenty, 
Drowned in Sun’s touch. 
Glimmering in its own right 
Like fireflies dancing in the night skies. 
What matters most 
Are the paths that formed 
To follow without rue.



I’m Still Dancing, But Are You Alright?


148 x 210 mm


Let Us All Discover Yet Again


210 x 297 mm

Let Us Discover Yet Again is a collection of five pieces that capture a part of the MacRitchie Forest as a remembrance and an act of awareness of the thousands of animals living within.



Look Up To A Sky Full Of Trees


149 x 302 mm


Months


210 x 297 mm


Only By An Inch


210 x 297 mm

A one month study of a Shore Pit Viper that only moved an inch each day, and its fellow living dwellers that share the mangrove.



Someday, This

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297 x 420 mm

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Paradise
305 x 610 mm

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Euphoria
305 x 610 mm
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Soar
305 x 610 mm

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Tethered
200 x 800 mm

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Open Secrets
297 x 420 mm
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210 x 297 mm

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To Tomorrow
297 x 420 mm

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Impermanent Life, Perpetual Thoughts
297 x 420 mm



Welcome To Earth


297 x 420 mm

Of human’s hypocrisy and ignorance.
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