the most surreal of us all - Joan Miró

Exhibition: Joan Miró

Place: Tate Modern

I like Miró's inventive imagination in his works; and it is also impressive that his works reflects his world and events surround him.

Sometimes I don't enjoy seeing surreal pieces when I can't figure it out or having no feedback watching them; other times I love it a lot because I can let my imagination run wild and put my thoughts into artists' work by simply admiring them.

I do like Miró's work a lot, especially those line figures which express the emotions so well. And for me, they're in kind of bizarre-look in a charming way.

I drew some of them in my sketch book and jotted down what I liked about them.

Those line drawings are so fluid and nature which create a lovely, enjoyable atmosphere watching them.

Vision Without Action is Hallucination

"Vision without Action is Hallucination." It's from a book called Making Ideas Happen as Holly told us.

I was attracted by the word "hallucination" at first without even knowing what the word meant.

It sounded interesting to me just like I've always been attracted by different accents.

Interesting, isn't it?
Sure it is!

And there's no doubt that "Vision without Action is Hallucination!"

This was the start of practicing on primary and secondary research which we will carry on with us through our MA course!

photography - observing shadows

 Shadows are flexible, changeable, unstable, unpredictable, and magical!

It can be way bigger than the thing itself or it can be totally in the opposite situation which seems to be smaller than the object, and sometimes shadows just never appears.

imaginative, isn't it?

To feel the atmosphere of the shadow and the mood of it despite what it actually is, I like those anonymous reflections of the real objects.

At some point, they're more attracting than the object even though it's nearly just black.

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2011

I did several drawings from those amazing art works which attracted me a lot.

RCA show 2011

Project-"my life in a box"

Goals: to interact with our group and sharing our lives, ourselves, influences and interests.

Material: a plastic rectangular box

developing ideas 

I drew this by scratching on colored cel.
(a fun method I experienced from experimental animation)

another piece I did on color cel

I tried to make textures by coffee stains

another experimentation

From the research, I found i interesting in John Cornell's birds series created with various medias.

So it inspired me to create an add-on frame using branches to vitalize the box with rhythm-like feeling of flowing curves penetrated through the sides of the box. It then represents my connections with people around me and the interactions with me. 

research study: John Cornell

my final piece 

I used collected materials such as branches and paper coffee cups.

And it actually smells like coffee!

The cel and the film represents my background as an animator. 

And undoubtedly coffee and tea make my day through out the year.

The rugged notes with coffee stains shows the joyful moments of making art and keeping records of my life.

What's more, I would like to enjoy those leisure hours sipping a cup of coffee over a white pure table because sometimes inspirations come up spontaneously.