I still remember my first, and undoubtedly the most horrifying panic attack as if it happened yesterday. My heartbeat thundered, eyesight reddened and breathing stopped. The small confined world of the night bus seemed to flip upside down as I sat paralyzed in fear and shock. The logical part of me - the one with …
Disorientation was one of my more ambitious sketching projects. I arranged a figure skate boot I used in elementary school besides random and intriguing objects like a metal chain, a bull skull and a large gear wheel. I used pencil, smudging stick, eraser and charcoal, keeping the depiction simple so that the viewers can concentrate …
"Anne with an E" is one of my favorite TV serieses. I especially love how poetic and surrealistic the opening credit artworks are. This is a pencil drawing of one of them, with butterflies perching on her head. Doesn't it just show how free, lively, and beautiful her imagination is?
This is an abstract acrylic painting I painted two years ago. It was my first large sized artwork, more than a meter high. When I was flipping through anatomy books, I thought, what if we deconstruct our bodies into bones, muscles and blood veins? What if we reverse all their characteristics? What if muscles flowed …
I used a mechanical pencil for this drawing. Traditional pencils are great for blending and capturing the atmosphere, but I just feel that mechanical pencils are better for illustrating sharp contrast. I really like how this turned out! (though I don't think I have much talent in naming artwork...) I hope I can participate in …
Drawn with Galaxy Note 8 and Sketchbook app. Reference photo credits to instagram.com/syo__seunghyo/ Seems like most of what I drew in 2019 have a lot of purple in them. Perhaps we are unconsciously affected by the annual trend colors?
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Verification of Virtue in Marginalized Classes Contrary to most parable writers who employ synecdoche and allegory to deliver a maxim that fortify already existent codes of behavior and morality, Thomas Hardy of Tess of D’Urbervilles and Kazuo Ishiguro of Never Let Me Go aim for the opposite. These two distinct novels both challenge the social …
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The two second-wave feminism movies from the 70s, “Wanda” by Barbara Loden and "Jeanne Dielman" by Chantal Akerman, recreate the distressing lives of women both confined in and exiled from the domestic sphere through a dry, observing perspective. These extremely detailed accounts of two different women who have internalized the social expectation or contempt to …
In Tree of Life, Terrence Malick invites the audience to participate in an intensely intimate yet universal journey that revolves around the question of life and death. Through seemingly incoherent film sequences, poetic narrations, and segmented, the viewers can construct their own holistic experience of the film from unique individual impressions and reflections. Especially, the …
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Erin's Pensive Pen 