Project R-E-L-A-Y

THURSDAY

Visiting Tate Modern
Good primar exercises

We try to capture the emotions/ feelings of the art work.  Then we read, comprehend , express the message of the artwork.  It was hard to do but trying to see through the symbols, signs, gestures of the object.  The best founding is everyone sees things differently,  the messages we received from the work differs with others.

I like abstracts.
I like abstract forms.
I like imperfect lines or marks.
I like the way of drawing the object that the drawing doesn't really look like the actual object.  You can sense its existence , you may know what it is, but it doesn't look like what you thought it is.  Just like a SURPRISE, which the artist offers.   It won't please you , but it entertains you.  You have to guess or imagine.   The work gives a hint of mystery.   Thats what I learnt from the thursday exercises.

Swapping sketchbooks and make a work - Round 1
It took me loads of time to think.  I had 4 days.  And I have been using all of these days to think over and over again.  I have been very unsatisfied with most of my preceding ideas.  Then, I came up with the good one at last.  I made Sailor Potato.  I wish to boost the self esteem of the sick potato chair. ( the original work)

Refer to my previous blog post:
http://kkkkonglily.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/sailor-potato-transformation.html



TUESDAY

Swapping sketchbooks and make a work - Round 2

We swapped sketchbooks again and made a work.   This time I got a video and a figure.  The figure which Coral made , was very interesting.  She fried a tissue paper figure in a pan.  It burnt.  The whole thing gave me a feeling of death and being rotten.   But the figure was facing up.  seemed like it was still hoping for a rescue or a rebirth.   

So I put plants in a bottle of oil.   Plants cant live in oil.  They die.  In the meantime, the plant was still facing up, hoping to grab a hint of sunshine.    

THURSDAY

Presentation
Capturing the essence of a work was amazing.  You get a mood or a feeling, rather than drawing its shape or shadows only.





Flow of my project:

coral's sketchbook:

Inspired by the above, my work:

Another turn: 

Coral's work

Inspired by the above, my work:

Drawing workshop week 1 : sound and text

 Illustrating sound was quite a difficult task.  We try not to draw tangible objects, but abstract ones.  All of us were expected to draw abstractly.  Yet do we really need to draw "abstractly" for sound?  Cant we just illustrate in tangible objects?   And think while you draw?     I wasn''t trying to think sensibly but imagine you listen to a "hoo-hfoooo" sound, can't we imagine and think more than a wind blowing sound?   is it angular or smooth?  is it rounded and squared?   I tried not to think or imagine when I listened to the sound, then I made some marks on the paper.  I wasn't sure if I was doing right.

Illustrating text or a word was a fresh experience, especially when I have never ever loved reading poems.  I dont always understand the emotions.  Too deep.  I drew a few things for the text.  It was rather story-like.  

Sailor Potato Transformation

This week we are doing re-interpretations of other people's sketches.

I had coral's sketchbook.  She drew sculptures that look like peanut and potato.  It looked very humble, bending down.

 I really like the potato shape.   And I really want it to look more confident while being humble.  So I made it transformation, from a typical potato to a SAILOR POTATO.

p.s. will attach coral's sketches later

Orientation London - Shoreditch

Self portrait - Iong neck me

Lively Corner

If I grow my armpit hair

Recently, I am obsessed by natural beauty of a body, especially armpit hair and leg hair.


A London photographer Ben Hopper created a series of photos, named "Natural Beauty".  He demonstrated a different kind of beauty.  It was very sexy.      

Then I took a picture of my dad's armpit hair.

and made some drawings.

Armpit hair is good.

Armpit hair is fun.

Armpit hair blossoms.

9 Great work

Pak Sheung Chuen

The Horizon Placed at Home 

08.09.2004

Pak ,from Hong Kong, drew a horizontal line on the Hong Kong map.  This line goes across 5 sea shore.   So, Pak collected a bottle of sea water in each of them.  The height and the horizon of these bottles are the same,  Pak has built a continuous  sea horizon at home.  

People always tried to get something like souvenirs, to remember their trip. well if they bring a horizon back home, they will be super into "souvenirs" - a thing that is kept as a reminder of a place.

All sources from : http://www.vitamincreativespace.com/cn/?artist=pak-sheung-chuen

 Pak Sheng Chuen

A Travel Without Visual Experience 

Malaysia, 2009-10-7 to 11 (5-days/4-nights tour group)

Pak joined a trip to Malaysia, a country he had never been before.   He either closed or covered up his eyes throughout the whole trip (in order to pretend he was blind).  During the trip, I did sightseeing and photographing.  But instead of seeing, he used his body to sense and experience the surrounding.    

There could be a few layers of "Seeing".  Sometimes before I sleep, I see when I open your eyes, or when I close them.   And I see when I cover up your eyes with cloth but still opening eyes physically.  When your eyes were open, it gets much easier to determine directions and make sound , visual and sensual records.      But when you close your eyes,  you could feel the darkness and the float, which makes the body floating into great fancy,  with imaginations and illusion.  


All sources from : http://www.vitamincreativespace.com/cn/?artist=pak-sheung-chuen



Liu Bolin
Liu, from Shandong China, managed to camouflage himself into different surroundings.

His art is a protest against the actions of China government, who shut down his art studio years before and persecutes artists. 

I think he was trying to say that artist were strong against the compression.  And he/ they become barely visible in the real life.   It's hard to notice but they are here, probably everywhere.



Source from: http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-the-real-life-invisible-man.html






Zim and Zou
The Answers Issue 2014

The Illustrations are answering questions like "How soon will we discover alien life?"
I have never known that questions could be answered and expressed in this way.  

Source from : http://www.designerhk.com/forum/post/16379



Rex Koo
Simple Evolution 2014

I saw this in one of the most popular mall in Hong Kong.  I love his way of splitting parts fo face.  interesting use of face structure   

source from : http://www.designerhk.com/forum/post/16381




Hong Kong Breathes Campaign

A Graphic Design VI branded advertising campaign for the City of Hong Kong created by Satsuki Atsumi, Tisha Boonyawatana, Jack Curry, Charisse Panganiban, and Baktaash Sorkhabi.

They realised the air pollution is very serious because of the depreciation of transportation.    So these designers made a brand mark.

The brand mark is a way of speaking without speaking; a form of silent protest. In this way, we are being mindful of Chinese culture in that our brand is bold without being vulgar. It is earnest but respectful – a way for the people of Hong Kong to speak up without necessarily speaking out.

This is very clever to start the campaign in grassroots first.  And the brand mark was outstanding enough to let everyone see what we should be aware of.

source from: http://fine.art.csulb.edu/graphicdesign/?tag=branding#hong-kong-breathes

Jonathan Mak Long 

Apple Steve Jobs Tribute

The logo was made years before.  but I find it very clever.  very direct

source from : http://rapidworldnews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/apple-steve-jobs-logo-tribute_4137.html 


Tse Saipei
Hong Kong Illustrator 

One of her work.
Telling us the equipments and outfits of a typical secondary school girl


I love her work!!   She has the gift of seeing into people's heart and the society.  Her works were mostly about our daily life.  Everyone in Hong Kong experienced those situations she drawsm but we just could not tell it by words or by illustrations.    The way she tells a story is so genuine and self-centred.   I love it!  


Sources from : http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1017056?PageSpeed=noscript




Hello Wong
When cartoon characters grow up

All these illustrations were so funny. I really appreciate his sense of humour. 

source from : http://www.adaymag.com/2014/08/14/hello-wong-change-the-story-of-cartoon.html