Exploring and experimenting with paper cutting, animation and sketching. Deeply interested in old art practices of Japan. Currently obsessed with abandoned houses in Japan!
36 days since I decided to go out and see the sunrise so far showed up for 31!Over-slept the most this week and could only show up on 3 out of 7 days of this week. This has been a busy week- emotionally, work wise, festivities etc etc. This thing has started feeling stupid. I…
Read more #4 Catching as many Sunrises as possible in the land of rising Sun – Week 5
I missed reporting week 3 last week, so here is Week 3 and 4 together! Toooo many things happened in these two weeks. Posting the keywords here because making sentences will take forever. Week 3 keywords: Cloudy, travel, Teshima Island, one-day-cafe, Indian-meals day, cooking together, serving food, customer-satisfaction, new friends, cooking together, eating together, long…
Read more #3 Catching as many Sunrises as possible in the land of rising Sun – Week 3&4
Week 2 was a bit tough. I had three instances of – ‘it is fine even if you miss one day‘. I didn’t miss but I was close.It rained on Friday and Saturday. I had to remind myself – Why am I doing this? Because I love sunrises. It brings me joy.(Though Sun didn’t show…
Read more #2 Catching as many Sunrises as possible in the land of rising Sun – Week 2
Shirakawa Village in Gifu Prefecture is a UNESCO Heritage site and hence, pretty famous amongst the tourists. That was one reason that I was delaying my trip to Shirakawa. It is definitely not a place I would explore on my own. Unless a close friend was to push me to visit it with them, it…
Hello Kartika here. It has been a long time. My last post was about HAPPY NEW YEAR where I had burnt my fears and all that.. ‘leave behind 2020- start afresh’ was the main idea. I thought I would be writing more, which I did, but only in my diary. Writing here feels very formal,…
“2020”, when written or typed, looks aesthetically good with nice symmetry and its simplicity. In 2019, I had hoped 2020 would be MY year. I was born on a 20, so naturally, ‘2020’ HAD to be my year. In a way, it was. I gave up the most depressing (but well paying) job as an…
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