Lino Cut

The illusion of it raining is on his jacket and not in his surroundings – Rather than associating his embodiment with something modern and man-made(his jacket), i chose to associate it with the eternal cycles of the natural world(rain). The rain represents how it rises intangibly (as vapor) out of the land and sea and floats up to the sky, where it changes form and becomes a cloud. Then it falls back to Earth to refresh the drought-filled land, allowing seeds to grow into something vital and beautiful. I took this as a metaphor to the cycle of life whereby we are born, and we grow up and work to our bones just to provide and start a family where new life is born and then start and repeat again.

#2 A wrinkled face tells more than just an age. It’s a road map of every experience, everything lost and everything gained. The wrinkles around the mouth are many that people overlook, every emotion is felt throughout the mouth, let it be happiness or despair. Every line above the brow is a different memory one chooses not to ever forget.
The eye wrinkles are pure experience throughout the span of one’s lifetime. These are permanent marks of intangible memories.

Nightscapes (Painting&Paper Cut)

#1 Painting

For the nightscape painting i decided to focus on architecture and how the night sky surrounds the buildings and the things around it. The painting i painted is the Hive located at NTU. The night sky is painted in a way that there are different hues of blue with clouds blending in the night sky and not being very prominent. The focus of course is the building of the Hive of which i painted it in two different shades of brown to show the difference in the lighting of the building at night rather than just one colour of brown in the day. The roads diverge giving the painting direction in terms of flow of movement, from the Hive to the tree and to the yellow building in the background. The building in the background is lighted up in bright yellow because i wanted to portray it to be seen only in the distance and be seen as a whole unit of building that is still lit up and not much details to be seen.

#2 Paper Cut

In the paper cut i made some slight changes as compared to the painting. I used styrofoam below the paper to allow some 3d/pop out effects and some texture especially for the trees.

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SOCIAL REALISM

Picture #1 – This picture clearly shows the history of Singapore during World War 2 of the Japanese Occupation in 1942-1945. Being a Singaporean and knowing the history behind the painting it is beyond imaginable to know how the captives actually felt but it is definitely devastating to know our ancestors had to go through those hard times. The artist brought out the message clearly with the clothing of the captives, being torn and tattered and some of their faces even being blurred and not define possibly because it has been so badly beaten up by the soldiers. The background dull and dark showing dark times are to come or has come. –

Picture #2 – As a whole, one would simply see just two workers working at a construction site and it would just mean that, but taking a closer look I realise that the painting is made out of purely just lines, vertical and horizontal. These lines have deeper implied meaning. The lines in the foreground represents some sort of cage whereby the workers are physically stuck in or maybe feeling emotionally caged because of their fate of having to slave away all day. I sympathise with their situation at the same time somehow relate to it.

WOOD/LINO CUT

What intrigued me most about this wood cut is, again, the lines the artist used to carve the entire piece. The artist made use of lighting and shadows and specially emphasizes it on the focus of the face. The age of the main focus shows and the wood cuts are intricately done to show the wrinkles and features. The background when seen as a whole seems simple but when taking a closer look, it actually pays close attention to details like the bookcase and even the chinese wordings at the side.

Wu Guanzhong & Chua En Kay Galleries

Picture #1 – This piece invokes a feeling of anxiety to me as the size in real life is pretty big and it is a black background with white specs. It reminds me of a dark space in your mind where you try to make sense of something but you’re in constant doubt and confusion and that’s what the white specs represent,the small amount of clarity in the fog of confusion.

Picture #2 – This piece evokes a feeling of serenity. The calm waters and emptiness of the piece with no life form, just architecture poses a very serene and peaceful vibe.

Picture #3 – The different size in brush strokes each plays an important role in this piece. The thick brush strokes invokes a sense of obstacle while the thin strokes represent an achievement of somesort,marking a milestone possibly. Together,it creates chaos.

Colour Still Life

Coloured still life paper cut – The inspiration behind this is a sunflower behind a glass bottle. A usual sunflower is yellow colour as seen in the left half of the piece, however when seen through a blue glass bottle it appears to be greenish, as seen on the half right of the piece. The random “strokes” on the blue glass bottles represents the reflections of the sunlight passing through it at different angles. The leaves and vines at the side act as directional lines in a sense whereby it surrounds the main focus which is the sunflower.

Black&White

Lighthouse Shipwreck

It essentially shows a sequentially story of the view from a lighthouse and a ship in distress from a first person point of view. It starts off with a person walking along the long boardwalk towards the lighthouse and as he gets nearer to the lighthouse he sees the full view of it. The first two would show a contrast in scale and proportion. He/She then continues to enter the lighthouse and goes up the long flight of spiral staircase,showing radial balance. Along the way, he/shes passes by multiple windows and admires one whereby the moonlight shines on one creating a shadow on the floor. Looking through he sees a ship in the sea. In the far distance the ship looks small as compared to the moon. As the night progresses, the waves get more treacherous and the lighthouse sends distress signals. The ship starts to rock violently in the sea and finally gives in and breaks apart. The white lines in the last frame show the calm waters afterwards and the ship parts slowly disappear underwater.

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