Hong Yi.

How amazing is this portrait?! I actually come across this on Tumblr, which was the initial strick of lightening to me that I have totally neglected my poor journey blog.
This piece is inspired by the song of Jay Chou. Shanghai-based artist Hong Yi decided to create his portrait using nothing but Nescafe coffee stains on the bottom of a mug. To be more exact, the 26-year-old artist was inspired by the first line of the song about lifting up a coffee cup off the saucer and “the ending of the song about fragmented pieces – this is shown through the portrait as a whole – how it’s formed by many individual rings, many of them broken and imperfect.”
“The song is about traveling 20 years back in time and is reflected through how the portrait looks like sepia-toned photo. Autumn is shown through the brown colours of the portrait, giving it an old, rustic feel.”
Yi says that it was “a tricky medium to use – too much water and the rings wouldn’t form easily, very little water and you’d have to be precise with where you place the cup coz the rings would pretty much be permanent.”

The coffee cup Yi used.

The final piece.

It's about time.

Time to finally get my ass into gear with my blog. Thankfully I've managed to fall into a steady, full time job this summer. However along with working, researching and squeezing more artwork in here and there, I have totally forgotten about my blog! SORRY! I promise to keep up with it from now on and need to give it some extra TLC. Once again I'll be posting everything and anything that inspires, influences and intrigues me within the world of creative minds. Peace.

Chimera.

For the End of Year Show, I decided to produce a short video piece influenced by the dreams I've had within the previous three months. I began documenting my dreams at the beginning of this semester in a pad now known as my 'Dream and Doodle Pad.' Alongside the text, I produced doodles as well.
I captured certain aspects from this pad and evolved them into visual reenactments, with the help of Amileigh Newson and Gareth Galley. I spoke over sections of the shots, to narrate them and to add more of a personal experience. This short film was 1 minute and 34 seconds long, as I wanted to portray the idea of loss of time during sleep. Dreams appear to last the entire night, however this is not the case. They usually vary from a few minutes long. The title of my piece is 'Chimera' as it's based on dreams, fantasy and delusion. The quick snapshots of the camera is to suggest the rapid eye movement endured during ones sleep and the reverse of the film is to portray one trying to puzzle together the dream, as I usually remember the end of a dream before the beginning.  

Above are two film stilts taken from my video, whilst it was playing at the show. My piece was shown on a projector in the Dark Room, along with three other artists' work.

Voila..

The End of The Year Show went really well, everyone did an amazing job. Got some great feedback from people, sweeeeet! :)

Skins at the entrance of exhibition, opposite the title

Exhibited photographs

Enigmatic

Above are the two photographs that I displayed in my exhibition. Size A2.

Title of my exhibition

The Anthropological Contemplative of Dr Zoo

This is a photograph of the entrance to my exhibition, 'The Anthropological Contemplative of Dr.Zoo.