Stairway Dilemma

Stairway Dilemma by Alecson Quiambao is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

"You cant fail if you never give up" ~ Stephen( The Last Kiss)

Back in high school, in his fourth year, the boy was tasked with a painting that he would use to submit for his final year art examination. Going with the theme “Stairway,” he bended his research in painting the lives of students.

Life is like a stairway to the sky, the further you climb; the more difficult it is to climb.

 As students metaphorically, we strive our best keep on climbing these flight of stairs, trying to reach to the misty top. Not knowing what is in store for us in the future. Some of us get tired and restless, with the fear of not reaching the top; we give up halfway. Others watch them sit, they can’t stand to see their friends give up, they grasped on their hands tightly, supporting them to the top.

CAT

CAT 由 WANG ANQI 创作，采用 知识共享 署名-非商业性使用-禁止演绎 3.0 未本地化版本 许可协议进行许可。 I drew this cat refer to a photo from my phone,actually this is may cat,I took this picture about one year ago.This is kind of like one of my precious in all those photo,I went to Singapore for four months,I never leave home so long like this,I miss my parents so much,and I usually talk to them through phone calling,but I really miss my cat,I don't even can hear the voice,the only way I can do is draw it up to miss my cat,and I also think about use a sketch book to take notes about my cat,to keep it give me the happy time. And I also think about I give up to stay with my parents my lovely cat and my friends,choose a better studying environment to come to Singapore,I have to more hard in study,change myself and make me be a better person.

The Best Way Out is Always Through

The best way out is always through by Brian NG is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. when we meet a problem, we should try to break through it. But most of the people nowadays will choose to avoid or escape from that situation. This will make us trap into a very horrible situation. Just think about that, if we walk in a jungle and we suddenly meet a high slope, what will you do? Change another way? If me , i will try to climb over that slope. We don't know that if that is the lowest slope among the other hill in that jungle, if we keep change another way, it will cost a lot of time.

Do It Yourself

BRAIDS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a work at http://marhdeeyah.tumblr.com/image/65431089111.

Braids is one of my semester project i did back then in my previous school. Its a handmade and machined sewed combination of drawstring tote bag. This is one of my work first few pieces that i'm proud of even though it didn't turn out as i expected it to be. I've decided to combine both tote bag and drawstring as i like how the function of draw string pouches always work, its easily accessed and it keep things secure too, in the pouch, thus i added the function into the tote. The handle of the tote is a braided woven wool string, its a 5 braided pattern, i chose it to be wool string as i personally prefer it if my handles are soft  when carried it on the shoulder especially when carrying heavy things. I also didn't sewed it fixed onto the bag as i wanted it to be interchangeable, so i could braid more patterns for the strap, or even change the color of the strap when i feel like it.

Why i chose and decided on doing this is because, i have always wanted to come out a product of my own, specifically more on sewing stuffs, like hand-stitch items , pouches , bags and clothes.  I grew up in an environment where all my aunts and even my mum stitches or knit. I started to have interest in it. To me, this craft is one of my passion, or usually when i'm down , i would start coming up with things i would like to sew or DIY ( do it yourself). 

Susan Jane Belton

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We all have the habit of drinking coffee, but we never care about the coffee cup. But the Susan Jane Belton painting out of the out life everywhere we can see the coffee cup by pastel.

We can see from she paintings, the coffee cup’s color she hold very accurate, when we see these pictures we will think of when we drink coffee. In the cold winter we have a hot cup of coffee in hand, the coffee cup warms out body. When you see these pictures, you can find the paintings that just simply a few pen, also can let out life is full of vitality.

So I use these pictures to express, we study the art of often exists in our life, we must be good at discover it. 

Man and Nature

Man and Nature by Tian KaiMan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


This photograph is me, using double exposure makes me and branches into one. I like this photo very much! It is give people a different feeling and view. Soft color and gentle tones make people suddenly see the light and begin to feel relieved. And the white background precipitate the theme, fuzzy leaves but able to see the shape of the people. I think we all belong to the nature, including plats and human. Human and nature should be equality. They have their own life, changes by the seasons, this is same as human. However human has been destroying the nature by cutting down trees to disturb their life. We should not do that, as the trees can cleaning the air, absorb carbon dioxide which exhaust by vehicles.They are our friends. I hope there will have more people alert the importance of trees in our life. Sometime, i am so curious about how is the feeling of the branches swing by the wind, under the blue sky.

Stomboli revisited

This is a picture of the collage created by me using Ingrid Bergman's famous still photograph from the film Stromboli. In the film she plays the role of Karin, a Lithuanian WW2 refugee who meets and marries a man from Stromboli. The film(Rosellini,1950) portrays the isolation and disillusionment she experiences once she is on that volcanic island. She feels herself to be a prisoner of circumstance and finds release only when the volcano erupts and she flees the island for good.

Circa 2013, the context changes but the perspective remains the same. Bergman appears almost consumed by newsprint, her expression one of extreme vulnerability and possible isolation. It is as if the all-pervasive character of post modern media is leaving her isolated, helpless and without respite. I have deliberately shown the collage as representative of press clippings on her face, a disembodied, engulfing media being reflected back at her- maybe from a laptop, a tablet or a google glass?

I argue through this work that the postmodern woman in 2013 is as vulnerable as the modern woman of 1950. In the later case, it is society, represented by her volcanic prison, that isolated her. In the former, it is her media saturated environment that leaves her puzzled, distressed and alone. Whether then or now, each person is trapped in her own Stromboli.

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