A She With A Pen

  Less is More -Mies Van Der Rohe, 1886        Before you begin reading the blog, do search for Minimalism on YouTube. Without realising, you will feel relaxed. Thank me later. Happy reading!      Okay, confusing title enough. One must wonder why Minimalism will be discussed under the ambit of the Modern Age since the movement started in New York during the 1950s and later flourished during the 60s and the 70s. There is a significant importance to which this should be discussed because Modernism heralded Minimalism in many ways. The history of Minimalism in art movement can be traced back to Frank Stella, who describes his serialised paintings  Black Paintings  exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959 as “ What you see is what you see .” Stella painted this famous artwork without devising a plan for what to draw and how to. He had just moved into his new apartment in New York. He worked as a painter to meet both ends. Gradually, he ...

       The expected reading time of this write-up is almost seven minutes. Thanking you in advance for sparing your valuable time.      Let us start from there itself. How do I know the probability that the readers will finish reading this blog in seven minutes? I must have read myself alongside a clock time equal to or under seven minutes. However, how can I compare objective time with la durée, as Henri Bergson’s theory of time states? As time is subjective, and my seven minutes, irrespective of whether a clock quantifies it, cannot be the same as your seven minutes. Furthermore, as Aristotle says, time is the most unknown of all unknown things. Time can be felt but not contested in that it can be quantified.       One of the primary reasons we cannot periodise Modernism and movements like Surrealism, Cubism, and alike is the difficulty of tracking down the time period. Every day was a “make it new,” and so many remarkable histori...

Space is a mysterious place where everything exists, from dust to us. Before the Big Bang happened, the space was empty and with nothing. Although when we say nothing, it does not mean that the things surrounding us now define space. Nevertheless, it is the things that occupy the space. So, it is not what we constitute that makes the space, but the space comprises us. This essay, "Exploring Heterotopia in Squid Game , " analyses the series as a heterotopic space within Korea.  Squid Game belongs to the genre of survival drama, where an older man on his deathbed does not know what to do with his money, plans to relive his childhood fantasies by plotting a game with other like-minded people, who are mentioned as VIPs who will grant the money to the last person who will survive through all the six games. The game's contestants are drawn in by a man, in the executives at the metro stations in South Korea, who approaches 456 financially challenged people to participate in thi...