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Nightscape (Painting & Paper cut)

March 5, 2016 / / 0 Comments

 

Week 4 – 5: Night paintings and paper cut

 

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This piece is about the domineering effect that light has on a subject. From the pictures above, we see two contrasting styles of dominance that arise from the light source. The captured image on the right portrays the light source as an entity of warmth, comfort and shelter. In conjunction with the posture of the subject, it adheres to the refuge he seeks.

However, the image on the left was interpreted to depict light with more omnipotence and godly attributes.  Inspired by the Catholic Church, the formidable light protruding out can be paralleled to the Holy Doors of Mercy. For this year, Catholics are encouraged to journey to or ‘make pilgrimage’ by walking through one of these Holy Doors. In doing so, it enables Catholics to be closer to God. Hence deriving the omnipotent aspect of light. Moreover, the beams of light that are casted out into the plane are exaggerated to effectually demonstrate the multidimensional of this ‘light’ which in essence is God.

 

Another light source worth mentioning are the reflections in the glass. From the captured image, the reflections contain simple solid objects. Whereas, the interpretation shows the reflection to be more fluid. This evokes life into the light itself, portraying it with more dynamism.

 

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Paper cut

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Adapting aspects from the night painting and incorporating the ideas into a paper cut was a challenging process. Fore mostly how light is not distinct as it gradates over time and distance. Light generally spreads unconditionally.

 

However, for that very same reason was inspiration for the piece below. We see light within the doors are segmented with leading lines converging to the central focal point, which adds depth to the door. As we don’t know whats within this portal. “Could it be a portal to another dimension?”

The lights emerging from the door itself, originates from the main light source as well. It slowly dissipates into the darkness of the ground. Having only 5 strips of yellow light to show the spread, emphasises the correlations between darkness and light.

  • If light = good,
  • then dark = bad

We see how the dark olive greens eat away at this yellow light, slowly devouring the light till light breaks down and shrivels at the end. Further making parallelisations, it can be seen how the works of the devil scrummaging against god.

 

 

 

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Color Still Life

January 31, 2016 / / 1 Comment

Week 2: Coloured Still life

 

 

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The Great Divide 

 

This piece is about the stigmatism and racial discrimination in the world.

Using juxtapositions of colour, shape and direction, the idea of one’s race being segregated by another’s, can be inferred from this picture. One side of the wall has a harmony of colours showing the unity of different races, religions and beliefs. Whereas the opposite has two bold colours of black & white discriminating the bouquet of colourful flowers. This is metaphorical for the discrimination and ostracism that some parts of the World face.

With the compartmentalisation of colours into their segmented squares, this piece is able to show the contrast between light and dark; peace and war, in a simplistic manner. Inspired from the Dutch Movement, De Stijl, the shapes and colours conflict with the long stalky black lines. These black lines covering the black checkered walls are to create a sense of anxiety due to its incompletion, unbalancedness and inequality, as they are skewed to the left, overlaying the rest of the image.

However, the colours are rebalanced by the bouquet of flowers as they anchor down the black stilted scaffold-like beams, perhaps trying to get through.

Finally, eye direction is centralised to a converged focal point in the middle of the page, the luminescent and glittery rose. As the rose is symbolic for love, the underlying objective of this picture is to enforce the ideology for peace, harmony and love in the World.