Bad Bali Cats

Rushed snaps on the way out of Bali. Gee, I don’t know a lot about what I like but I DO know a lot about art. But, having said that I’ll leave it up to your sublime judgement our most sophisticated and aesthetic readers. Naive or just Naff ? Primitive or just painfully bad ?

Bali Kites

The Love Boat

Peace and love reigned on the ocean wave. Gorgeous folk posed. Exotic food abounded. Weird art was draped in the stairwells between decks, including this beguiling Javanese nose horn player. Boys and girls looked thoughtfully on. Tigers and peacocks also….what the….tigers and peacocks ? What could possibly go wrong there ? The whole animal Kingdom […]

Délices d’Architecture – Varanasi

Varanasi – a splendid, crumbling step-back-in-time. Your feet come out from under you and you tumble into an ancient landscape. You stumble and mumble a mantra and swerve and sway to keep out of the way of the cows, the shopkeepers and the saddhus. Round each corner the narrow lane opens onto a new delight.

A cat can stare at a King

So it’s true, a cat CAN stare at a King ! We’re not entirely certain if the Thai military Government, when providing the funding for these two extraordinary art works, were entirely across the democratic implications of this idiomatic proverb. But we are fairly certain the artist was. A cat may also, it seems, stretch […]