HANNA Cheriyan Varghese's death has taken an original and innovative talent off the Malaysian art scene.

She was a leading visual artist, renowned for expressing her Christian faith and spirited thoughts in lively imagery.

She was, from the beginning, involved with new and exacting work in different media such as oil, acrylic, batik, metal-tooling and wood-block printing.

THE rapid pace of technological advancements has almost become the norm; more often then not that cutting-edge gagdet you bought a few months ago would by now be rendered mediocre by the next technological marvel.

Which bring to mind the question: What does one do with all these obsolete items?