Vilia Ciputra

"The noblest of human goals wasn't to become Godlike, but to be wholeheartedly human instead." --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

Cloisonné, which taken from French word cloison; meaning to separate, is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork object with colored material held in place or separated by thin metal strips or wire, normally in gold color. The thin metal wire will first be shaped to follow the outline of the drawing to create separations on the surface work area, which then later will be filled with crushed semi precious stones, or enamel, before being kiln-fired for several times to create the evenly colored and decorated artworks. Cloisonné technique is still being used largely these days, not only for metal works and done with enamel, but also for other kind of artworks using resin, acrylic colors, and many more. Cloisonné beads are one of my favorite items on jewelry, it somehow brings memories of my childhood. My mom and the elderly would have some jewelries made of these Cloisonné beads during special occasion. I also love the history of it, the amount of patience and hardwork given to crea...

To me, a little imperfection is what makes everything perfect. And it goes for everything in my life, including on my artworks. I always love a little imperfection on my stones, or the irregular shape of my works, or on a little imbalance on the structures. Those feel like little surprises that makes the artworks alive and have their very own characters. Like their histories, before they came into my life. It goes the same with colors, too. I always have a surprise hint of colors on my works. Color combinations that work like signature style of mine. It's true that energy is transferable, and that in everything that we do, we invest our energy on it. Those imperfections are also the result of the energy that being invested into them. Whenever I run my fingers through a stone and found a crack or a fine line, I would rub it and think, “What have you gone through before you meet me? What cracked you but didn't destroy you? What a strong stone you are.” And that's how I am bei...

It is always interesting to find how people mostly will be divided into two groups of the hardcore-believers VS non-believers, whenever we talked about natural stones as healing crystals that have different healing properties. I am actually in the middle. I believe on the healing properties, firstly because I can sense them. The other reason was simply because I believe in the nature and I know that the nature has energy, vibrations, and frequencies on every element of it. In today's world, most of us have already known that everything in life is vibrations (as Einstein once said cmiiww). Or the fact that everything is energy based and energy couldn't be created or be diminished, only could be transformed. Or the fact that atoms are in a constant state of motions and depending on the speed of these atoms, things are appear as solid, liquid, or gas. Or the fact that almost everything in the universe resonances at different frequencies. To me, this is where the healing properties...

"Most other resources on which we rely as individuals - such as food, electricity, and money - are things that facilitate life, and in some cases it's possible to live without them, at least for a while. Attention, on the other hand, just IS life: your experience of being alive consist of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. At the end of life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been. So, when you pay attention to something you don't especially value, it's not an exaggeration to say that you're paying with your life." - Oliver Burkeman --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link...

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself-- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not a of mortal danger.  To love from the position of strength.  --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

What if word is not the real language? And what if the basic importance of communication is neither about who is the sender or how it was being sent? Aside from love which is hard to be measured, music and art are two of the few fields and disciplines in life that have proven those two questions as very relatable and argumentative. With music, we have seen many cross boundaries musicians who don't understand each others' (word-y) languages, collaborated and jammed together nicely. Classical, Jazz, and Swing are among few genres that put forward on those wordless language heavily, according to their own principles on each of their own disciplines. We can even enjoy music without really understand the lyrics or even without lyrics at all. With art, we've seen how the works of artists who have passed away hundred years ago still resound heavily to us now. Even without really knowing about the background of the artists or their works, we're still able to enjoy them and dist...

Differences and problems are necessities for growth.  --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"Isn't it funny, how much kinder and tender our hearts are when we know we have not much time left? We realized that we only need so little, yet we've spent that little we have, to prepare for the fear of forever that never exist." --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"Du stillar alla stormar som kom till dig, det är något jag kommer att avundas dig för alltid. Du stoppar tiden med dina bilder, och värderar världens skönhet på ett helt annat sätt, jag kommer för alltid att beundra dig. Men du låter mig se mig själv på ett annat sätt, att jag kommer att älska dig för alltid." --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"They said a life that wants nothing isn't worth living." "But 'wants nothing' is wanting something, too." --- "Don't trust them, who never questioned themselves. It's easy to judge with a foggy mind." --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

Kalsarikänni --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

Everything new and innovative is first started with the creative engine. --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"I want a deeper meaning, but everyone I meet only live for surviving or fun." --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"We can't make people to love us by loving them harder, and we can't change the nature of a relationship by putting more effort on one side. Strangling and suffocating others in the name of love, isn't love."  --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"Everytime you learn to love again, it will always hurt a little more than before. And one day, it hurts so very badly, yet somehow you decide to not runaway. You give yourself so many reasons of why this love is so bad for you, yet you don't wanna leave this time. You just know with your guts, this one is worth hurting for."  --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

One of the most misunderstood artists of all time' that's how a friend and me named her lol. Marilyn Monroe mostly identical with sex, sexy blonde, skirt being blown by wind, or her affair with the Kennedys. Simply said, most people take her as a typical pretty but dumb blonde, sadly. If you read her autobiography, her writings, her biographies written by others, her stories and how she navigated around racism, royalty rules, the concept of beauty and skin color, or any deeper social issues, you'll get the different sides of her that never got proper spotlight from the media. She was actually a great thinker, someone who has a mind ahead of her time. I'm pretty lucky that when my parents bought my first pc around 2.5 decades ago, the first disc that they provided me was the biography of great people, from pilot to actresses. I'm lucky enough that I've known Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, or Ella Firzgerald, long before I knew of how the media portrayed them. Mo...

A Room of One's Own is actually one of few books that I would recommend to all women, especially the young mind and the ones who pursue creativity as her path. A true feminist imo, Virginia Woolf speak loud and clear here. Had women been given some peace and quiet to wander in, there would have been many more great female authors (and artists). Solitude is a necessity for the loud mind, and freedom of mind is the treasure that no one can ever take away from us. --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

Most people knew Dali for his 'melted time' painting, his moustache, or his surrealism. Less people knew about the writer, poet, critic, sculpture, or photographer Dali. He is one of my fave artists, one whose works opened my eyes to the concept of reality, the structure of time, and the importance of different perspectives. Every artist is a deep thinker who communicate with anything but words, yet Dali is one of very few who master the words, too. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wing, the same goes to truth without courage. --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"I know some people categorize self-care as unimportant splurge and self-boundary as unnecessary drama, but then I get confuse of them being furious over people treating them with less respect. I mean, if you treat your life like shit and put yourself behind all the times, why would you expect people to treat you as a valuable treasure and wish them to prioritize you?" --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

Freedom is never cheap, but just like everything else in the world; there is always a price to pay to have it. The question is never about "How much?". Instead, it is always a matter of "Are you willing to pay the price for it?" --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"Finding happiness and trying to understand how our lives work without learning about how our brain, neurons, and body work; is like trying to make a car stop without knowing the existence of the break pedal or how it works. It's utterly useless."  --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"The key of all inventions, progresses, and evolutions is the ability to execute dissatisfactions properly." --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"Sometimes I wonder, am I the creator of my hamster wheel and the sculptor behind my very own rabbit hole? But then again, isn't that why we all here?" --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below. 

"I love my solitude and I do find it in very few souls who appreciate the loudness of silence, and embrace the presence of absence."  --------- - Aim for a better tomorrow through healthy lifestyle, diverse insights, creative arts, and minimalist living. -  ViliaCiputra.com Thank you for supporting  my intention  through owning  my artworks , reading  my writings , and following  my Instagram . You could also support my page with buy me a coffee at the link below.