Am I Worthy?

when Thor lost all his swagger, defeated and blamed himself for not killing Thanos and all the lives lost in Infinity War ( where he should gone for the head - he did ), he dig down deep inside, have a pep talk with Frigga, stretched out his hand for the Mjolnir and got back a litre of worthiness back.

i found myself not worthy when i first stumbled upon the works of the Italian masters namely Leo and Mikey. The moment i mentioned their names, the theme song of the Ninja Turtles blared through my subconscious. That is why The Renaissance is one of my favorite lectures/sharing sessions in my art history classes. 


How Mikey carved a fucking form from a marble made me stop drawing for months. Mind you its not a drawing but a freaking sculpture. This is before he took 4 years of his life to produce the mind-blowing Sistine Chapel.


I dont want to talk about Mikey as i can go on and on. Balai Seni Negara brought all the reproductions at the actual size, displayed trough projections and yes, portion of Leo's massive and legendary Codex Hammer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester ( kindly please donate to Wikipedia - so you can support it in your nightly pub arguments or mamak debate and discussions )





Leo's immersive and unbelievable urge of studying and observation is so amazing, made me ashamed of myself. Here we spend hours of watching cat videos, tik tok and nonsensical minute driven viral nonsense, Leo spend time and time taking down notes from how a fucking bird flies, their anatomical muscles, physics of their wings and experimentation.

From engineering to the human body, Leo covered it through and trough.



all of the sake of knowledge and it's fucking worthy. All the time and effort spent is motivated based on his curiosity and effort. The Codex Hammer was purchased by Gates and he generously shared with others.





Sharing and this effort is so magnanimous compared to our former Prime Minister Jibby and his wife spend it on shopping trips buying Chanel and branded bags. Its ironic that this clown is re-branding himself and connect to the youth with a tagline of " what is there to be embarrased"


Amazing. Now let's reflect back on all the stuffs we did and is it going to be worthy for yourself and hopefully for the rest when you kick the bucket shall we.

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