It’s all in that ‘moment’
“It’s important to capture moments, not create them,” Lipton Jayawickrama comments on the exact art of wedding photography. “Unfortunately, this is something most of our photographers-and couples-happily forget!” It’s quite common to hear a photographer instructing the unsuspecting couple to gaze adoringly at an inanimate object, he grins, shaking his head. “But you know what’s [...]
A revelation, it certainly was
7 p.m. on a Friday evening and the Park Street Mews is buzzing with the opening of REVEAL, an exhibition dedicated to displaying the creative portfolios of the AOD(Academy of Design) graduating class of 2012 for leaders of the industry. A quick glance around the Mews Warehouse and it would be hard to be unimpressed [...]
Writing under the gaze of her Saraswati
Bowing before Saraswati for a few minutes at the start of every school term, Hindu schoolchildren in India pray for her blessing on their books and their efforts. Lankan writer Yasmine Gooneratne asks much the same of the goddess, though in her case, she is actually writing the books themselves. “There was a point in [...]
Memories are made of square grids
“The work has to communicate and speak for itself, and the quotation by Balthus in your Gallery sums it up, ‘Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint really.” Noorjehan Bilgrami is a Pakistani artist, textile designer, researcher and filmmaker whose work [...]
Young dancers to get you in dance mood
A scintillating mix of modern and Latin American dance will be on the stage at the Bishop’s College auditorium on August 19 when ‘Ballroom Kids’ of ADC (Antonio’s Dance Circle) present ‘Light up the Stage’. This dance extravaganza is being held primarily to raise funds for the 13 couples of the Ballroom Kids who are [...]
