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Project 3: Ego (Final)

November 20, 2016Final Project, My Work, Project 3 Ego, Project 3 Gallery2D, ADM, carefree, complete, creative, discipline, expressive, faceless, Final Project, home, Indonesia, me, passion, Project 3, SingaporeNatasya Adistana

Hi!
This is my final project for 2D Foundation I: Ego.
For the concept, I divided my ego into myself in four different places and different role.

1. Carefree + Singapore = Discipline

For the first context I want to show myself as a student. And the main place for my education is Singapore as I first got the opportunity to study there 2011 in Singapore until now. I used the addition sign as it is something that Singapore culture (especially education culture) is really an essence that has been constantly added to my life as a student.

Carefree: It represents myself as a student before coming to Singapore when I was more free and able to do anything I want without thinking much of the consequences. I was much more selfish and ignorant towards my studies back then. The carefree ness in me was represented by the position of the paper. Its orientation is not align to show my carefree ness and how I trying to escape learning. The crumpled rice paper also represents part of me. The colour is mainly orange to show my immaturity and pink to represent actually my love to study which make me want to escape to normal way and finding my own learning.

Singapore: As a student, my Singapore includes pictures of the hostels I stayed before together with the schools I went to. I put wire mesh on top of it to represents the rules and confinement I feel in Singapore. There are many rules like curfew and study time. As such, I felt that me in Singapore is confining and limiting in many ways here, especially in term of physical freedom. It is really different from back then when en I was able to freely do whatever I wanted, including in what CCA I want (not what I need) and how I want to spend my leisure (not feeling guilty for not studying). The colour blue represents intellectual which is how I see Singapore education. And not only that, these were the period when I had my ‘blue’ period that has shaped me the way I am now (not only as a student, more as a person in general) and as such I personally feel this colour is most suitable for my Singapore.’

Discipline: It shows me what I have become after years immersing myself with the education culture of Singapore. As can be seen, the rice paper that previously represented me as ‘Carefree’ is greatly influenced by the blue colour of Singapore. At the same time, the pink paper is now weaved into the wire mesh, representing that I am following the rules and regulations especially in the way I am learning. Also, the orientation of the paper is right as well which means as a student I am more on the right track now. The colour is combination of the both previous panel. Showing how as a carefree student I integrated to Singapore education system and slowly but surely becomes a more discipline person. There are many ways and aspect where Singapore has influenced me and discipline is one of the most significant one as a student.

2. Expressive – Indonesia = Faceless

This time my role is as an Indonesian. Even though I have been living in Singapore and become more-like Singaporean (especially the way I think), I am still a proud Indonesian. The sign is subtraction sign to show what will happen to me if Indonesia is taken out of me.

Expressive: I want to show that I am someone with many ways of saying things (sometimes I unconciously do exxagerated gesture when I am excited), something that I show most of the time when I am speaking in Indonesian. It is a scanned picture of me trying to be expressive and conveying many emotions, added by red and orange pattern to even enhance the idea of expressiveness as both are striking colours which show energy, excitement, and fun. Also added by pattern from leaves and twigs which represents my Indonesia to show that my expressive trait is something that has been nurtured from my identity as an Indonesian.

Indonesia: The main idea of my Indonesia is batik and nature. I want to combine the first thought when people see Indonesia and what is mine. I used google image to search Indonesia, the very common result are the photos of many natural tourist spots in Indonesia. And personally my first thought was batik. As such, the main characters of my Indonesia are nature and batik. In addition, the red-white background which is the Indonesian flag colour, I pasted batik and leaves and twigs (represents nature) to create the shape of Garuda Pancasila, which is the national emblem of Indonesia. The colour is around yellow-green. Green for the nature and yellow is around the gold colour of Garuda Pancasila. While the red colour also serves as the transition from the ‘Expressive’ previous composition.

Faceless (defined as lacking character or individuality): It is the same picture as the ‘Expressive’ however it gives different feeling as the colour theme is changed. It has the pattern of pale blue to show the blueness. While part of the face and fingers are sewed on with thread to cover the identity and show the idea of facelessness. At the same time, blue colour psychologically represents the lack of emotion, coldness and aloofness as well as the idea of sadness. In short, it represents my blue misery and loss of identity and characteristics of me, in the case that Indonesia is ever taken out of me.

3. Creative x ADM = Passion

This is my role as an artist. The place is ADM as it is the place I learn most about art. Actually I never thought I will go to an art school, it was a hobby and I didn’t learn art formally before. But I can say that being able to enrol to ADM is one of the best blessing I ever received in my life. I use multiplication sign to show that the way my passion for art is really raised in ADM, and it is something that will keep on repeating and going on. As such, it is not merely adding for me, but much more than that hence multiplication.

Creative: Creativity is personally what I feel as an important characteristic that every artist to have, something that I want to keep on developing along the way. It is represented by the purple violet paint drip and yellow green paint splash. I used red violet as the main colour as it means creativity, imagination and passion which for me really describe the creative. On the other side I contrast it with yellow green to get the complementary harmony which add vibrancy, energy and visibility to the creativity. Meanwhile, at the same time exist the vertical yellow green pattern which represents the routine and repeated habit (not creative) in order to contrast the striking creativity and normal.

ADM: A very important place for me as a growing artist is ADM. The ADM is represented by the drawing of ADM building. Also, at the same time I personalise it by adding photos of various different projects that I have done during my Foundation period. I also used complementary colour to emphasise on the vibrancy and energy that I personally feel in my ADM journey so far.

Passion: Handling the many projects and assignments from ADM, a very important drive that has kept me going is passion. The very first thing that remind me of passion is fire, which is the red shape in the middle of the composition. The colour of the surrounding is the combination of the previous 2 composition (half left from ‘Creative’ and half right from ‘ADM’). In a way, this composition is really the summary of me as an artist at the moment. And also my hope for the burning desire to stay along my whole journey.

4. Me + Home = Complete

Lastly, it is my role as a person. I used addition as my home is really a very important piece that I need to complete me as an individual.

Me: It is simply just me. I tried to keep it simple and really choose a simple colour to keep it mild because I really want it to simply say ‘Hey it is me! Everything here is just me the way I am!’.

Home: For me, home is not merely the hose but more to the people in it. As such, my home is represented by the collage of my family member in their own way how I see each of them. For my Dad, I see him as someone who always try to be seen as a serious person (but he is not) that I chose his picture while wearing shade that makes him looks more serious. My Mom is someone who always cheerful and happy in every situation. My younger brother is an adventurous person who always want to try new things such as the sand board he is holding when he first play it. Then my little sister is a very girly and cute girl who likes to do different poses and asks me to take pictures of her, like the one she is posing on the composition. So my family is basically home for me. I choose the colour blue green as I when I google search: family gathering poster, many of the poster are blue and green, which I feel suit my family also.

Complete: I really want to show that me and home is complete and enough for me. I used black and white family photo layered by acetate paper of three primary colour of red, yellow and blue. As these colours are primary colours, I want to show that this composition is a primary, significant and important for me as a person, which is my family and I.

So yes, those are my Ego for Foundation 2D final project. For me, it is a very personal project that maybe only me can fully understand the feeling and meaning behind everything. But I really hope you can understand it as well. This final project really made my 2D journey more private. Sadly, I think this will be my last post for 2D Foundation I this year. I would also take the chance to thank Ina as a very supportive and positive tutor. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy this post :’D.
2D has been fun :’)

Project 1: My Line is Emo (Process)

September 7, 2016My Work, Project 1 Emo, Project 1 Gallery2D, aggravation, alienation, awestruck, bitterness, complete, despair, eye-opener, faithful, Final Emo Lines, frustration, hopelessness, horror, jealousy, monotonous, MRT, My Line is Emo, nightmarish, obsession, optimism, pleasure, revelation, vesica piscisNatasya Adistana

Hi guys! Here is the process of my handmade emo lines!

1. LOVE – Obsession

LOVE - Obsession Process — LOVE – Obsession Process

I used pieces of cut foam, put it under the paper and use the roller with thin ink to create the pattern. (image 1-4)
I divided the paper into five parts and roll it with various rolling movement and ink content, e.g. roll the roller vertically/ horizontally/ diagonally with thin ink/ thick ink to get various effect. (image 5-7)
I enhanced the level and brightness as well as contrast of the scanned image.

2. LOVE – Faithful

LOVE - Faithful Scan — LOVE – Faithful Scan

I scratched the black paper to different direction to create the desperate and problematic effect and pasted a red paper behind it to enhance the effect.
I sewed a calm pattern using white thread on the paper.
Made the scanned image black and white, then multiply the sewed pattern to intensify the calmness and faithfulness.

3. LOVE – Jealousy

LOVE - Jealousy Scan — LOVE – Jealousy Scan

I used a paper with mono-print pattern as the background then brush chinese ink with different pressure and various stroke direction to get the intended effect.
Edit the scanned image to black and white, multiplied it to intensify the jealousy effect.

4. JOY – Complete

JOY - Complete Process — JOY – Complete Process

I took black and white loom bands and paired each 2 of them. (image 1-2)
I pen-knifed a black paper to create the vesica piscis pattern. (image 3)
I match the black paper to find suitable monoprint patterns to be included. (image 4)
I pasted the paired bands and created the final line. (image 5)

5. JOY – Pleasure

JOY - Pleasure Process — JOY – Pleasure Process

I drew the outline pattern of Batik Sekar Jagad and cut it with pen knife. (image 1-3)
I matched it with various monoprint to give individual effect on each part and created the final line. (image 4-5)

6. JOY – Optimism

SURPRISE – Eye-Opener

It was made from the image of SUPRISE – Eye-Opener (above), the process will be explained at number 7.
The line was scaled down, multiplied and mirrored to create the pattern and final line of SURPRISE – Optimism.

7. SURPRISE – Eye-Opener

SURPRISE - Eye-Opener Process — SURPRISE – Eye-Opener Process

I cut line with different thickness from black tape and paste them randomly but diagonally. (image 1-2)
I paste black rectangular black paper on top and trace it with white color pencil to create the reverse color effect due to the tape’s thickness. (image 3-4)
I pasted different sizes of plastic eyes on top to finish the final line. (image 5-6)

8. SURPRISE – Revelation

FEAR - Hopelessness Scan — FEAR – Hopelessness Scan

I used the same scanned image as for FEAR – Hopelessness (above), the process of making will be explained at number 17.
Then I adjusted the level and brightness to create the intended revelation effect.

9. SURPRISE – Awestruck

SURPRISE - Awestruck Monoprints — SURPRISE – Awestruck Monoprints Scan

I scan the monoprint and create 2 layers of it.
I used one for background and one for the main object in the middle.

10. ANGER – Bitterness

ANGER - Bitterness Process — ANGER – Bitterness Process

I did some experiment on coffee powder on paper. From left to right, coffee powder on paper, coffee powder on paper with addition of water, coffee powder on paper with addition of black water color paint. Then I tried to put the in microwave with intention to get a black effect, but nothing happened. (image 1)
I prepared the paper and white glue, spread the coffee powder on it. (image 2-4)
I gave some water and dried it with tissue paper as it was too wet.(image 5-7)
Then I added black watercolor paint. (image 8-9)
The scanned image is edited to black and white and adjusted to give more bitterness.
ANGER – Bitterness Scan

11. ANGER – Frustration

Image (21) d — ANGER – Frustration Monoprint Scan

I did monoprint and use pencil at the back of the paper tho create doodles and random lines.
I scanned the part I want and edit the level to adjust the effect.

12. ANGER – Aggravation

I created the monoprint using masking tape, cling wrap, rubber band, and thread.
I scanned and cut out the desired part to create aggravation.

13. SADNESS – Alienation

SADNESS - Alienation Process — SADNESS – Alienation Process

I painted staples (stapler bullet) and thumbtack with white acrylic paint. (image 1)
After put a foam below a black paper, I stapled the staples randomly on the paper and closed the open ends of the staples. (image 2)
I pasted one white thumbtack to give the alienation effect. (image 3)

14. SADNESS – Monotonous

I created a stencil with the shape of a MRT. (image 1-2)
The paper was prepared, I marked the line from 0600 to 2400 with a graph to indicate the peak hour time of MRT. (image 3)
I tried using roller but the result was not as expected due as the stencil line was too thin. (image 4-6)
I decided to use acrylic paint to create the MRT. Black paint indicate the presence of MRT (the darker, the more peak hour) while white paint indicate the absence of MRT ( the lighter, the more non-peak hour). (image 6-8)

15. SADNESS – Despair

SADNESS - Despair Process — SADNESS – Despair Process

I simultaneously tore and cut white felt fabric to create a pieces with many wool coming out of it. (image 1)
I prepared the paper by rolling roller with thin ink to give some light background. (image 2)
Dipping a felt piece to black acrylic and brush it on the paper, I repeated the process until the desired outcome, scanned it and enhance the despair effect. (image 3-5)

16. FEAR – Horror

FEAR - Horror Process — FEAR – Horror Process

I used hot wire foam cutter on white styrofoam at an non-perpendicular angle to create the melting and horror shape. (image 1)
Using roller and thick ink, I colored the white paper to create the mystery and and uneasy effect. (image 2)
I glued the styrofoam purposely with super glue as the glue will ‘eat’ some part of it, giving uneven thickness of styrofoam, enhancing the effect. (image 3)
After scanned, the level was edited and the final line was created.

17. FEAR – Hopelessness

FEAR - Hopelessness Process — FEAR – Hopelessness Process

After preparing a white paper, I tore of masking tape to pieces then paste it on a cutting mat. (image 1-2)
Then, I scratch it randomly with penknife. (image 3)
I pasted it randomly on the paper, scanned it and edit the level. (image 4)

18. FEAR – Nightmarish

FEAR - Nightmarish Process — FEAR – Nightmarish Process

I created a piece of hanging rope and cut it out. (image 1)
I put the piece of cut rope under a white paper before rolling it with thin ink roller to capture the texture. I repeated the process until the desire effect. (image 2)
I enhanced the effect by scanning it and adjusted the level.

Thanks for reading! I am making a hard copy for this in order to keep the handmades, will be updating this post soon. Hope you enjoy it 🙂

Project 1: My Line is Emo (Final)

September 7, 2016My Work, Project 1 Emo, Project 1 Gallery2D, aggravation, alienation, Andy Warhol's Shadows, awestruck, bitterness, Cai Guo-Chiang, complete, despair, Ed Moses, Edvard Munch's Jealousy, eye-opener, faithful, Final Emo Lines, frustration, Hilma Af Klint, hopelessness, horror, jealousy, monotonous, MRT, My Line is Emo, nightmarish, obsession, optimism, pleasure, revelation, Revelation Illustrated, Sekar Jagad, vesica pisces, ViracochaNatasya Adistana

Hi guys! So up there is my final lines for our 2D Project 1 – My Line is Emo 😀

Let’s briefly go through them one by one!

1. LOVE – Obsession

This line was inspired by Andy Warhol’s Shadows where he painted a single image 102 times with various light and shadow.

The repetitiveness of the image make me feel his obsession in it.
Hence, my line was made of a single pattern with different direction of roller and ink quantity. However, the shifting of paper cause the material to move around hence there resulted pattern is similar but not the same!

2. LOVE – Faithful

The background was made of paper being scratched by penknife while the front was white thread being sewed in a pattern. The background resembles the trouble and hardship in a relationship while the white thread represents a pure love that stays composed and faithful at all times.

3. LOVE – Jealousy

This line was inspired by Edvard Munch painting of Jealousy.

On the painting there is the “dark aura” of the jealous man, hence I try to develop and extend the jealous aura to be the line.

4. JOY – Complete

Inspired by Hilma af Klint, an abstract artist who used many symbols in her artwork.

Hilma af Klint, Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk

One of the symbols she used many times was vesica piscis, it is the almond shape arising when two circles overlap and is an ancient symbol for the development towards unity and completion. Focusing on the vesica piscis, the line of complete was created.

5. JOY – Pleasure

The line was made inspired by Indonesian famous batik motif of Sekar Jagad, the word “Sekar” means flower while “Jagad” means the universe.

This motif contains the meaning of beauty so that others would be fascinated to see. Taking the definition of beauty which is “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit”, I decided to choose pleasure as the emotion.

6. JOY – Optimism

The line pattern looks like rays of light coming in from tall windows. Resembling that there are light and hope out there, giving the message that there is always good side in everything and to be optimistic at all times.

7. SURPRISE – Eye-Opener

The line is inspired by Ed Moses’ signature diagonal grids in the 1970s.

Ed Moses, A Retrospective of the Paintings and Drawings 1951 - 1996 — Ed Moses, A Retrospective of the Paintings and Drawings 1951 – 1996

It was explained in the exhibition advisory that the grid pattern was associated with logic and order. As such, I am adding the opposite colour rectangle shaded with white pencils and craft eyes. These addition were meant to break the ‘order’ and give unexpected enlightenment, eye-opener!

8. SURPRISE – Revelation

Revelation means “an act of revealing or communicating divine truth or something that is revealed by God to humans”. Inspired by “Revelation Illustrated” artworks, a series of paintings through the scripture message in the Book of Revelation of the Bible.

Illustrator — Revelation Illustrated Paintings

Most of the paintings is identified by the one source of light (represents God) in a darker surrounding of different situations, making the God shining and be the centre of attention. Using such concept, my line is showing one source of light on the left side while the other parts are darker. It resembles God (the light) who is shining (revealing truth) among the darkness, a revelation.

9. SURPRISE – Awestruck

The focus on this line is the back pattern that can be seen as a face at a glance. The intense look and stiff face reminded me to Viracocha, a supreme god in the Incan mythology.

Also known as Huiracocha, Wiraqoca and Wiro Qocha, he was considered the creator god who formed the earth, heavens, sun, moon and all living beings. As such, the emotion is awestruck.

10. ANGER – Bitterness

Inspired by Cai Guo-Chiang’s gun powder paintings, I tried to create the lines using coffee powder then putting it inside a microwave.

However there was no visible changes hence I decided to add black watercolour paint to give a darker shade of colour (like explosion). Because of the pattern and coffee powder used, the emotion is bitterness.

11. ANGER – Frustration

The deep scratch done during the mono print process was to represent the feeling of being frustrated. The lines made is unorganised, random and very messy. It shows inability to do things clearly and disappointment of unsuccessful work, frustration.

12. ANGER – Aggravation

The line has many different elements which represents many things happening at once while the time is limited. It gives the feeling of urgency to do them, together with exasperation. And as the feeling is getting worse, it became aggravation.

13. SADNESS – Alienation

The one and only thumbtack between tens of staples on the paper represents the loneliness of the tack. Also, the contrasting shape different between circular wide thumbtack perfectly contrasts the small straight shape of staples shows the differences that may cause the feeling of not belong, alienation.

14. SADNESS – Monotonous

The line was made of a MRT Stencil. It was arranged from left to right to be time from 6 am to 12 am. The black colour represent the presence of MRT while the white means the absent of MRT. Using the time of peak hour and off-peak hour in Singapore, the darker the area the more crowded the MRT is (peak hour), vice versa. Since travelling is a daily routine for commuter, some may see it as something mundane and monotonous.

15. SADNESS – Despair

Pieces of white fabrics were dipped into black paint then used to etch a line on the paper before being pasted. The white fabric represents innocent and pure human while the black paint represents dark and deep problem in life which tinted the pure self while the etch shows the scar that those problems left behind. On the line, the pasted fabrics are means that the problems in life is not ending yet and the high quantity of it showing one’s despair.

16. FEAR – Horror

The pattern can be easily relate to horror and eerie feelings. It looks like the common representation of haunted places and dark caves. It can also be related to blood pouring down, giving the terror and alarm feeling, hence horror.

17. FEAR – Hopelessness

The pattern looks like scattered glass pieces. It resembles loneliness and the break of a life. It also can easily be related common movie scene in which the character is so stressed that they break the mirror, showing the depth of there depression. And many times, such scene ends with the character attempting suicide as they are really portrayed to be hopeless.

18. FEAR – Nightmarish

The line consists of many suicide hanging rope, being put as one like it was an arena to suicide. In a way, it represents hell where many deaths presence, as well as the existence of ghost and supernatural creatures. We stereotype them as bad and hence giving us negative feelings and emotions, not forgetting terrible nightmare!

So, those are my final lines! Will be posting the process soon, hope you enjoy it 🙂