UOB Painting of the Year Competition (Highly Commended Award)
Jendela, Esplanade, Singapore
Bittersweet
Through my body of works, I would like to depict the nature of interpretation, subjective versus objective truth and the ways in which these images from the past embody memory. I am concerned with exploring the evolving notion of the everyday and the individuals’ relation to it.
Daddy's trusty tools
Found objects
Live drawing
Get the Picture?
Here, I have used a Danger – Keep Out sign which we commonly see in our everyday life. I have layered it with acrylic paint and in bright, fluorescent colours so as to capture one's attention thus creating a contrast to reality. I used the idea of text as a concept and I played with the mundane and everyday life. I tried to categorize its tendencies. Brushwork is light, applied to an underlying wood surface in a routine manner so as to obtain brashness of posters but not in terms of composition, the painting lacks subjective features. This is a way to get at what was really important - the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.