

Loving Vincent...
I've just watched the brilliant and graphically unique film "Loving Vincent" which epitomises the concepts in My Mood Kit. The anguish of...


The Zen of Disaster
Thousand of shack dwellers lost their entire life possessions in a raging fire. We could use this to put our own small disasters into perspe


David Hockney and Life ...
“People want meaning in life. That’s a desperate need, and images can help. Unfortunately there is within modern art a contempt for...


The Structure of Mind and Meditation
This is my latest article on Daily Zen about the different layers of mind and how they can be accessed and set down so that we can go...


Artist David Hockney talks about living in the now ...
This is exactly what I'm trying to get at in this project of art, emotion and the mystical quality of intensely being in the here and...


Art as Healing: Aborigines find expression.
This is a painting by Aboriginal artist Angelina Pwerle, “Bush Plum” (2013) (all images courtesy of Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane...


Art and Rape ...
When I started My Mood Kit some almost six months ago, I had a rather vague idea of using the powerful emotions of art to facilitate...


Gratitude ...
Gratitude is an emotion which I didn't think to add to my Images page. It's one of the most subtle emotions, perhaps because it involves...


This is our default life ....
As Shakespeare said " all the world's a stage" .. and here we are; on the empty stage. How will perform? What character will we create?...


Bullying and Suicide
The incidence of school bullying, depression and even suicide have been aired in Cape Town media in the last week with the suicide of a...