Dilmit Singh
Smoke and Mirrors
Depicting abstract concepts through images is not a novel idea, and images tell stories. After having painted realistic pictures in both...
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Dilmit Singh
Sep 8, 20211 min read
Morning Light on Garden Pots
"And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness...", the sun’s rays never fail to create magic. Even though in his play,...
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Dilmit Singh
Nov 3, 20202 min read
Golden Birches
Aphorisms – those pithy sayings that are not truly descriptions but succinct, word-compacted, meaning-packed one-liners certainly cajole...
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Dilmit Singh
Oct 21, 20202 min read
Autumn Leaves
The turn of leaves takes me back to my English classroom long long ago, sitting and reading John Keats’ Ode to Autumn written in 1819....
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Dilmit Singh
Oct 5, 20202 min read
Joshua Tree National Park
One can read the history of Joshua Tree National Park on many research sites that explore the geography, geology and history of the...
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Dilmit Singh
Sep 26, 20202 min read
The One and Only Bard
I love reading and reciting Shakespeare. I do not respond to his wit and wisdom cerebrally or get caught up in his universality that...
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Dilmit Singh
Sep 8, 20202 min read
As Far As The Eye Can See
Emerson wrote, “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” Swaddled by...
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Dilmit Singh
Aug 31, 20202 min read
St. Bede's
I wasn’t sketching or painting much in my teenage years when I left my hometown for the first time to attend St. Bede’s College. With...
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Dilmit Singh
Aug 23, 20202 min read
The Fried Egg Flower
If you are not a fan of the sunny side up fried egg, this watercolor rendition of the matilija may not resonate with the breakfast image....
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Dilmit Singh
Aug 17, 20203 min read
The Toast
With retirement came quarantine. Friends and coworkers stated my timing was impeccable but I am ambivalent. Not particularly keen on...
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Dilmit Singh
Aug 9, 20201 min read
The Art of Learning
“You have no idea how much you’ve meant to me. Never has any teacher inspired me like you.” At the end of this pandemic-impacted year in...
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Dilmit Singh
Aug 2, 20202 min read
The Queen of Cereus a la The Gorettians
Tempus fugit. I recently connected with mates from my high school in India, St. Maria Goretti, after five decades. You heard that right,...
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Dilmit Singh
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Plein Air Greens
Where do I begin? Choosing a subject in plein air painting is almost always a challenge for me. Winding paths, benches under shady trees,...
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Dilmit Singh
Jul 18, 20202 min read
The Potter
I wish I could remember the name of the dirt road that led to the little hamlet on the outskirts of Udaipur where I photographed the...
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Dilmit Singh
Jul 11, 20201 min read
The Fishing Village
India is a complexity of immeasurable proportions and yet can be simplified in the faint outline of a humble fisherwoman striding...
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Dilmit Singh
Jul 1, 20201 min read
A Pre-Lockdown Reminiscence
The desire to sketch and paint the orange roofs of Lisbon, the wine country of the Algarve, and Alvor's tiny fishing villages in water...
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Dilmit Singh
Jul 1, 20201 min read
Despair
The haunting images circulated in the media of caravans of migrants displaced by the pandemic became a de facto deep seated metaphor for...
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Dilmit Singh
Jun 18, 20201 min read
Morning Delight
My hikes along Cherry Canyon are my morning delight, my cup-o-java. Daybreak is the optimal time for a one on one Zoom meeting with the...
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