Stories of us

“For we live with those retrievals from childhood 

that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, 

the way shattered pieces of glass 

in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are 

songlike in their refrains and rhymes, 

making up a single monologue. 

We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, 

whatever story we tell.”
~ Michael Ondaatje

Dream of dreams

The night dropped down
like a blanket to hide in
and so the adventure begins
as children with the cat in tow...

May the night showers grace on
all living creatures within her
dream of dreams...

Love cats

...the universal dance of life,

where roles and dramas,

even the players themselves,

are tentative and dream-like,

being nothing and

everything...

Open space

I can re-dream my life,
spiral backwards, lose
solid ground to find
open space again...

Www.catmasutra.com

Whiskey for Cats - The Macatlan

A setting rich in heritage suited to a mischievous, complex and reflective moment, one to ponder the victories won through imagination, and the freedoms grasped through playfulness! Here's one for the ride...
The Macatlan.

The Macatlan, 30 x 30"

CATMASUTRA 8:
RIDE WITH ME
Opening Reception:
Thurs 6th Dec 2012 from 7pm

Exhibition runs from
6th - 23rd Dec 2012

Utterly Art
20B Mosque Street
3rd Level

Opening hours:
12 noon to 8pm,
Mon to Sat.
12 noon to 5.30pm, Sun

;)

Zen Cat catmaSutra -Under the Lotus Leaf

Under the Lotus Leaf

catmaSutra cat art 2012, Under the Lotus Leaf

Sitting under the lotus leaf watching dew drops
dripping with dreams
and soaking the light blue sky... 

catmaSutra 8... ride with me...
Utterly Art
20B Mosque Street, level 3
6 - 23 December 2012

Check it out at
www.catmasutra.com

;)

Happy soup!

When nothing works,

there's always

a can of Happy Soup

to keep things

in the correct perspective!

Happy Soup (2012)

Catmasutra 8

Utterly Art

20B Mosque Street, level 3

6 - 23 December 2012

 

“Don't cry because it's over,
smile because it happened.”
~ Dr. Seuss

Count your life by smiles, not anything else!

Happiness is not something ready made.
You have to cook it up with your own actions!

;)

Cute Cat - Earning Kitty's Stripes

Earning Kitty's Stripes

So many stripes, so little time....

Catch the catmaSutra cat at Affordable Art Fair,

Utterly Art Booth

Look out for catmaSutra 8 art exhibition
December 2012!

Cat silhouette

That is where the light enters you.

and don't believe for a moment

you are healing yourself.

~rumi

Cute cat art - the cat sketch

catmaSutra cat sketch
of the day

 There is a presence in all of us,

and this presence is the engine

that filters and magnifies...

Have a beautiful vision,

walk softly, live gently...

It's that time of the year when the cats of CatmaSutra come out to play! Bright, quirky, and capable of levitation, the seventh installation of catmaSuta cat art exhibition is once again back at Utterly Art. The seven year itch has only served to cook up more mischief as the catmaSutra cat takes you to that sweet spot of whimsical bliss and light-heartedness.

 

 "If we stop and observe how life flows, we'll notice how the universe is made up of individual moments which when appreciated fully, gains a shape akin to a smile from the heart - a personal heaven." Paul's paintings take his audience through these moments using the cat as the perfect allegory to create a personal space that tugs at the heartstrings!

Come check out some of the available catmaSutra collectibles and smile-getters (2012 catmaSutra calendar cards, tile coasters and keepsake boxes), the purr-fect gifts this festive season.

catmaSutra 7 cat art exhibition

CATMASUTRA: 7TH HEAVEN

Opening Reception:
Wed 14th Dec 2011 from 7pm

Exhibition runs from
14 to 24 Dec 2011
@ Utterly Art
229A South Bridge Road
2nd Level

Opening hours:
12 noon to 8pm,
Mon to Sat.
12 noon to 5.30pm, Sun

Or contact Keng Hock
for appointments:
Tel: + 65 6226 2605
Cell: 94872006

utterlyart@pacific.net.sg

Rainy days with Totoro

if you can see beauty even when it’s not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence… If you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments, you will never be alone…

What the World needs...

Saw the city from above… lights flickering like stars. The lights are alive, indicative of lives in the city; at the same time, it’s like a tiny cell in the body, each sustaining itself unaware of the view from above. Millions of cells come together, and a radiant design unfolds into a rarefied constellation of stars. Yet, individually we do not know what to do with ourselves. The busyness of life wear us down into a tiny flicker of light consumed by consumption. The urban city has no regard for the rhythm of life; it is relentless in keeping us earth bound, our wings clipped, unable to fly or dream. If the light in my eyes fade, then my life would have been in vain.

“Don’t ask what the world needs. 

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” 

~ Howard Thurman

Fairy Tales

"Some day you will be old enough to start
reading fairy tales again."
~ C.S. Lewis

 catmaSutra cat Art!

"At every moment of our lives,
we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."
~Paulo Coelho

Jerry Cai

The Milk

In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. 

If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. 

Thy will be done." ~ Homer Simpson

Oh, there are so many lives... How we wish we could live them
concurrently instead of one by one by one.
We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them
together like a strand of pearls. But that's not
how it works. A human's life is
a beautiful mess."
~ Gabrielle Zevin

Thank goodness it's Friday!

TGIF! Get the latest
'No EVIL'

catmaSutra cat art iPhone covers

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying." ~ Studs Terkel

 Fridays are a different kind of animal...

warm, fuzzy, quirky, zen, & blissful....

Stay this way and enjoy...

;)

Cat Dreams

João Lauro Fonte

A suitably catmasutra-approved cat art!

One liner to live by:
invest your waking life with dream-world quality,

that's when the magic starts...

 

catmaSutra cat art collectibles...
Zen Quirky Bliss!

Super Cute Cat Art iPhone 4 cover!

Get it now exclusively at 
http://bit.ly/im4lnr

This is one of a set of catmaSutra paintings entitled "See-no-evil"  or Morning Cat. As you would have guessed, part 2 and 3 (hear-no-evil {afternoon cat}, and "speak-no-evil"{evening cat}) will soon follow. The design is also available for iPhone 4, iPhone 3, iTouch 2, iTouch4. I'll probably add in the iPad versions as well so stay tuned!

Here's the natural inspiration of the above painting - Halo doing her "See-No-Evil" stance. I think we can learn a lot from a cat, the way it stretches, the way it seems to live its life. Maybe it's a way of slowing things down as per lifespan, they age much faster than we do; but everything is relative, if we don't take time out to enjoy stretching and doing nothing once in a while, we may indeed live to regret it!

Fantasy, the escape route...

catmasutra cat art

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.
If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy,
don't we consider it his duty to escape?
. . .
If we value the freedom of mind and soul,
if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape,
and to take as many people with us as we can!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

 catmasutra cat art: Square root love

If you really wanna learn something,

you have to do so by feeling.

That's the fuel of life.

;)

Square Root Love

“Don’t ask what the world needs. 

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

 from: http://www.lifelounge.com/gallery/view.aspx?id=9505

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

~ Howard Thurman

 catmaSutra cat art: Square Root Love

"Living well is an art that can be developed: 

a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings

and assurance that the world owes you nothing 

and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. "
~Maya Angelou