Taking a break from blogging

After this last post I'm planning to go full force for art and my A levels and take a break from blogging. Today I was inspired by this amazing 'Extreme Beauty' art exhibition in which my art teacher was performing a performance art piece and it was amazing. Some of the people from our art class ; Joy, Mabel, Davin and Elizabeth decided to support out art teacher, Mrs Tay. The exhibition was a social commentary of the pursuit of beauty and showcases it in a negative light.The whole exhibition showed me that if I want to pursue a true art work, I'll have to work hard for it and give it my all. Thus I'm planning to go and mug for my exams and not let the computer destroy my life . So I'm gonna take a break from blogging. Maybe a few months or so to get my life back on track after my devastating term exams. Afterall, that's why I'm in college. You can check out snapshots of my teacher's art performance. It's basically showing how women are obssessed with beauty . She basically walked around with thick amounts of makeup and lipstick and went up to random people to kiss tissue papers and gave the tissue to the random person and soaked herself in a plastic box with styrofoam balls and submerged herself and basically kissed the box. I'm not sure how you'll interpret it but it's about women's pursuit of beauty.





Wearing a neck brace made out of human hair and animal bones...




Kissing pieces of paper, leaving a lip stick stain.



Some other artworks by other artists of the Singapore Contemporary Young Artists community...

OH! AND ONE THING I SAW AT THE EXHIBITION WERE PEOPLE WHO DARED TO BE DIFFERENT! Guys with leopard printed pants, Dr Martens, hair slicked back in a bun with drapery and creative styles and everyone with striking hair colour like pink/purple/red!. Seriously I felt like I was with my people even though I was wearing the school uniform to the exhibiton ( We had to rush down from school ) but the people there seriously dressed AMAZING. Some of the guys had scarves, many wore capes,drapery,wore vintage spectacles. I really admired their courage to dress themselves and not be afraid of whop judges them or stereotype them. I was really 'starstruck'. People who dared to be bold and here I was, sometimes afraid of wearing my favourite pair of shoes on the train because I was afraid of stares. Fuck that, from now on I'm going to dress how I want to dress and if people want to stare and give me googly eyes, I'm gonna stare right back and SMILE. I realised from the exhibition that true beauty is to be yourself and not even society should be able to change that. Take constructive criticisms as advice NOT rules, and take insults as compliments that we can be ourselves while others are not. This exhibition really opened my eyes up to A LOT of things. Probably because I've been confined in a heartland college for more than a year, and in a stringent society such as Singapore that I don't even dare to be myself. I'm truly inspired by the attendees of the exhibition and I'm really thankful to have gone to the exhibiton and I couldn't believe I even contemplated staying at home to sleep.. From now on I am going to be myself, whether at school or in public and the rules are mine to make.

I hope by the time I write my next post, I'll have more courage to be myself...

A Fashionista.

I hope to write again soon...

But for now...

Back to the real world.

EDIT : Okay maybe I won't take  break from blogging afterall. I really cannot do without it. But I guess I'll be blogging lesser and mopst probably during the weekends...

Lazy Leon