Michael African Visions Blogs

I'm really insignificant and uninvolved with medical marijuana, but from my perspective the wave of medical marijuana lights up brightly in my eyes. Like a ray of sunlight in this dark and troubled world, it represents an opportunity to bring a new t... 

The face contains so many amazing features. Which are uniquely poitioned to create a mirror yet with the creative eye one can find a face in many things. Especially symmetrical things such as houses or cars, which have lamps for eyes and grills for t... 

Artists are both blessed and cursed with the knowledge through practise that, through creativity it is possible to reach levels of creativity which approach infinity. Meaning as you create more and more art you realise that the potential to create is... 

SOMETIMES People blog silly boring things. Or they make mistakes with there spelling. They could also write things that mean little to others. But still its good to blog and express yourself. MERRY Christmas to the world. Too the non Christmas... 

Art has an important role in our society for reflecting the nature of our society as well as the beauty and ugliness we find in nature and our surroundings. Many famous artworks are those that carry a new message which is controversial for its ti... 

South Africa should reduce racial discrimination to zero. their was one mistake which caused apartheid. that was, the idea that humans have different races. We are all one race of humans. We are all one species. There is no need to identify us by rac... 

Mirrors. I think art like nature is a mirror. The artist is the controller of the medium through which the mirror flows. The medium itself, like paint has its own way of harmonising with its content or not. I think the artist is fully entitled to hi... 

When did this idea of classifying people by colour and appearance start. Surely it is ignorance and wrongful. How can we really separate ourselves. Only by our ancestry.where we are born. And where our parents are born. But even this has no real val... 

Using plastic made from oil is dangerous: IT'S LIKE THE LION AND THE SNAKE AS THEY DO BATTLE ON THE FIELD. It's likely to even be toxic in the long run. We are slowly poisoning ourselves and the environment. 

Employ the unemployed . The wealthy should do this and immediately our problems will be solved. Ok its already being done by some degree. But the wealthy should thinking about investing their wealth to employ more people. They will only get more weal... 

There is only one race and that is the human race. The discrimination of people by colour or appearance is a dangerous fragment of ignorance from our past, which has been imposed on us to control our thinking. The fact is we are all unique and therfo... 

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ― Aristotle Thanks to Vishnudas for sharing this quote with me. 

Today I helped out with a voluntary programme called food for life, which is a feeding scheme created to help address the needs of the poor communities in the Cape Flats, in Cape Town, South Africa. I think many artists create art with the intent... 

I've been wondering, what lies beyond the extent of the big bang. I mean does the extent of the universe as defined by the big bang go on for infinity or does it have an end or a boundary. My question is what lies beyond that limit and how can we obs... 

I question the future of art as new technology such as advanced touch screens and digital editing and drawing software have advanced to areas where art is strongly influenced by these new forms of media. How does the art world adjust to this with ... 

Art has always played a role in reflecting the society we live. This concept extends from the large scale, in how we as humans have interpreted the structure of the earth and universe which is based on the ruling philosophy, science and religion o...