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"Empire State of (Polluted) Minds"

A piece making use of the scaling technique, this depicts my distaste towards city life. Though maximum life lies in the heart of the city where all the fun and parties happen, I would still prefer to live in recluse away from all the noise and pollution. 

S U R R E A L I S M

A Foundation Year 2D Assignment on exploring various techniques used in Surrealism Art. namely Scaling, Transformation, Dislocation, Juxtaposition, Transparency and Levitation. This series is themed "Personal Struggles".

"You can only conquer the world after conquering yourself."

Many times we face many barriers in life only to find out that they are mostly our own mental barriers. I have always struggled with thoughts telling me how insufficient, inadequately experienced to overcome challenges faced in life. However, after surviving a semester and a half in University studying something so new to me that I've never done before, I realized it is only by conquering myself and pushing beyond my limits that I can create significant milestones in my life. This is a piece done using the Transformation technique.

"Sweep ugliness under the table"

Done using the Dislocation technique, this piece is pretty personal, and depicts the various emotions I felt when I got bullied in school a few years back. The constant pretence of being "okay" requires a lot of "behind-the-scenes" work of sweeping my troubles underneath the table and concealing the negativity I got from school every single day. I felt persecuted by people and the insults they hurled at me - to the extent where I felt I was getting murdered every day in school by them. The ropes I "strangled and hanged myself" with are made up of all the insults I had to put up with. After getting killed a million times, I finally emerged out of it victoriously.

To those who are in the same position as me back then, stay strong and turn your frustrations into remarkable pieces of art. And to those who contributed to the ropes in this piece, I love you all for you've made me bulletproof.

"It's all in your head"

I have a phobia towards anything that flies too near me and invades my personal space, including harmless things such as dandelions. This piece mocks my phobia through the use of levitation of the "mini-me"s, simulating a dandelion seed flying towards a terrified me, as they slowly combine to form scary looking things that traps me. 

"We are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners to our own minds."

I find myself often jailed in my own mind, unable to emerge from the shadows and bad memories of the past. This piece uses the transparency technique to show how deeply imprisoned I can be in my own mind, and hopefully, just someday I can be set free.

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