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CV Drawings and Paintings In Place (Ex)(Ac)cess Literally Paintings Abstract & Mixed Media Depar()uera Catharsis Latter Play Poem May Murals Harmonies of Nature Green Transportation Merlion @ Sonafi Sculptures/ Art Dolls The Amnesiac Cyborg Neuro Plush Lab Runaways Contact |
In Place2009 - 2016
The series was started as a series of semester-end school assignment submissions for figure-drawing and figure-painting classes in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. It came to my observation, through conversations with people, that many feel stuck in situations because they had no choice - I find it strange because it seems to me that they had made a series of decisions to arrive at their current circumstances. I thought if only they realize they have made their choices, they will be in place. Triptych: The Gallery I
Oil on Canvas 3 panels of 48.0" x 24.0" 2010 An incident with a classmate had caused a sense of violation of values. The love for art turned into inspiration for the series The Gallery. The Gallery expresses what I value when I experience other artworks and fall in love with them. Some works free the mind and/or end an emotional entrapment; some works spill into the realm of reality and some works, while appearing to be unpleasant, provoke the mind - they "comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable". The Gallery I had a clothed version but failed miserably and was discarded. Clothed figures seem to describe an event limited to a certain time and age while the nude figures give a sense of timelessness. The Gallery II
Oil on Canvas 24.0" x 40.0" 2010 I was looking at the form for the abstract figure in Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus; and drawing a parallel between the form of the hand holding an egg and the thinker. The egg seemed to me to symbolize the potential of thought.
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