chanlily

I've become addicted to small notebooks and black felt tip pens. My trip to Japan, in which I captured photos of peoples and scenes that I could not take with a camera: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26090&page=1&l=364df&id=793194744 Now I want to set up a blogspot which has one notebook page for every single day. Watch this space. :) A homage to poet Greg McNeill of Canada, who has, over the past year, written stunning poems based on several paintings in this gallery. Thank you Greg! It's a pretty amazing feeling, to know that my scribbles are inspiring someone else's creative spark. He's also damn good. Here's his most recent

My little brother thought it a good idea to show me a snippet from the show Happy Tree Friends, which used to be a regular on SBS I think. Anyway, it starts off with these loveable cartoon animals with music and they never talk, just do the Mr Bean thing with body language and lifting their furry cat/dog/deer/mole eyebrows and opening their mouths and poking out their tongues, and it's all very cute until a cartoon animal accidently lose the tops of their head, and their brain peeks out, seeping blood, and two cute cartoon birds thinks it's great material to make a nest in, and it just gradually spirals into a crazy anarchic slaughter. I was

One of my pieces is "Branching Out" found here http://chanlily.deviantart.com/art/Branching-Out-66221146 It has inspired a viewer to write: Purple hope in the branches a message from the cellular depths, trying to get the bells tolling blushing purple blushing sexual and primeval blushing for survival broadcasting to the sky narrowing in on eyes on the lookout for the sunset and the sunrise. By animalinside, poet and blogger at http://metaphormetamadness.blogspot.com/ Thank you. :-)