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The Art of Life

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| A Fashionable Tradition | The Collapse of Light | Wait for Me, I was Born For You |
| Let us Walk the Earth | Fish of Colours |
| Mother Nature | Queues of Princesses | Suspended in Space? |
| Entertainment or Bombardment? | The Flames of Passion |
| Blinking with Nothing | The Art of Urban Life |
| My Beloved Sister | All the World's a Stage | La Mer |
| Snap Away | A Tug on Heartstrings | A Mid-Air Escape |
| A Yellow Warning | Line us Up, Drink us Down |
| Lead my Steps, Watch me Glow | What's on a Man's Mind | The Windows of Perspectives |
| A Chinese Sunny SideUp | The Very Bottom Always Reflects The Very Top |
| Just Me (: |



The New Flowery Collection:
| Unfolding the veins of Life | Open Up |
| Contamination of Darkness | Let Imagination Flower |



The Against All Odds Addition:
| No Words Needed |
| The Bird's Eye View | Traditions Aside |



























Scibbles on Art







To be masterful in art, one requires not only originality and impeccable talent, but some
rebellion, a need to express and a subtle form of self-centredness. For when art is presented, so is
one's world of fruitful imaginations. The delicate power of a true artist lies in the unparallel creation
of another world, from which upon stepping out, curiosity is satisfied, satisfaction is relished, yet
both are yearning for more.


As in all cases, power delivers with its costs. Artists are to stand behind what one believes in, to
speak aloud through the chosen medium one's private world, often concealed in reality by layers of
persona and insecurities. To break through these concealed layers, to stand alone in the face of
harsh scrutiny, to be condemned by the fleeting yet lingering words of ruthlessness- that is the fate
of all artists; to be simultaneously free and trapped in judgment. Those too afraid would soon
become obsessed with feeding the feeble mouths of the public with what is thought to be desired;
and through each feeding is how character slowly drains from Self into the lost seas of others.


Know oneself well and early is more than crucial, as with cultivating a resilient wall that
can be drawn upon will; for the silent hunger of the ego can gnaw away oneself without even
the slightest of conscience. Any form of exposure and self expression will gradually define the self-
the flow outwards will alter what comes rushing in. This is the inevitable cycle in the development
of art, self and character. Every step counts more than the previous ones as it becomes increasingly
resistant to Control; the effect is accumulative beyond imagination. There are an impossible
number of directions. As artists, as humans, we Do have to take care.






- Ruth


























All the World's a Stage
All the World's a Stage
Lead my Steps, Watch me Glow
Lead my Steps, Watch me Glow
Let Us Walk the Earth
Let Us Walk the Earth
Queues of Princesses
Queues of Princesses
Unfolding the veins of Life
Unfolding the veins of Life
Open Up
Open Up
Suspended in Space?
Suspended in Space?
The Art of Urban Life
The Art of Urban Life
La Mer
La Mer
Snap Away
Snap Away
The Very Bottom Always Reflects The Top
The Very Bottom Always Reflects The Top
The Windows of Perspectives
The Windows of Perspectives
The Collapse of Light
The Collapse of Light
Wait for Me, I was Born For You
Wait for Me, I was Born For You
My Beloved Sister
My Beloved Sister
Blinking with Nothing
Blinking with Nothing
A Chinese Sunny SideUp
A Chinese Sunny SideUp
What's on a Man's Mind
What's on a Man's Mind
Entertainment or Bombardment?
Entertainment or Bombardment?
A Tug on Heartstrings
A Tug on Heartstrings
The Tongues of Passion
The Tongues of Passion
A Mid-Air Escape
A Mid-Air Escape
Mother Nature
Mother Nature
A Fashionable Tradition
A Fashionable Tradition
Contamination of Darkness
Contamination of Darkness
Fish of Colours
Fish of Colours
A Yellow Warning
A Yellow Warning
Let Imagination Flower
Let Imagination Flower
Line us up ,    Drink us down
Line us up , Drink us down
No Words Needed
No Words Needed
To See Life
To See Life
Traditions Aside
Traditions Aside