May 11, 2012
BOW Update: I’ve started drawing my temples and today I’m painting the flow base design, inspired by Supakitch works. Planning to add onto these patterns, even considering projecting a subtle moving video in one of the patterns! 

BOW Update: I’ve started drawing my temples and today I’m painting the flow base design, inspired by Supakitch works. Planning to add onto these patterns, even considering projecting a subtle moving video in one of the patterns! 

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April 29, 2012
Practicing drawing architectural elements on a model friend of mine. 

Practicing drawing architectural elements on a model friend of mine. 

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April 13, 2012

Nestled in a brick-walled studio in NYC, artist David Hochbaum cultivates stuning dreamscapes within his painterly photo constructions. Using a potent alchemy of mediums such as carbon transfers, paint, gelatin silver prints, gold leaf, and snips of typographic texts, the resulting images are poetically beautiful; a meditation on the surrealist nature of dreams and how they can inform and change our waking lives. The first installment of an ongoing body of work, ‘Burden of Dreams’, features a stunning juxtaposition of repetitive architectural elements with the sensual bodies of ethereal women. These pale beauties are cast in the roles of celestial adventurers that carry the crescent moon and navigate rough seas crowned with the spires of old cathedrals. 

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April 13, 2012
Cryptik

Cryptik

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April 13, 2012

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April 13, 2012

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April 13, 2012

The Art of Sean Edward Whelan

Educated in Australia but currently based in Japan, artist Sean Edward Whelan creates figurative pencil drawings based around architecture. Culling inspiration from the shrines and temples of Japan as well as Edo period wood block prints, the drawings feature kinetic figures erected from these ancient structures of safekeeping and worship. Engaged in various stances, the cities housed within their forms remain stable, illuminating the longevity of the original structures

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April 13, 2012

James Jean

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April 13, 2012

David Bray

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February 4, 2012
"2012 HSC Body of Work Idea - Find your Fortune"

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The concept of Finding your fortune 

The work is based on the Buddhist method of fortune telling, Kau Cim, a practice that originated from China in which the querent requests answers from a sacred oracle lot (e.g. monk at a temple) 

How it works: 

1) Shake cup filled with Kau Cim sticks (10) until one falls out 

note that each stick is labelled with a #1-#10

Shaking the can of Kau Cim sticks

2) Toss 2 stones until one stone faces up, the other facing down 

According to Buddhist beliefs

2 facing up: Gods are laughing at your fortune

2 facing down: Your fortune is unbelievably out of reach that it could not possibly be true

1 up 1 down: Fortune is true

3) Refer to fortune from an area in the temple and accept it.

This was my 2 fortunes from a temple that I went to this Chinese New Year

WHAT I WANT TO DO:

  • Dress as a monk in the city, find an area with many passing people and carry out the Kau Cim practice (shaking the can until one stick comes out)
  • People who are curious about the practice will receive the number
  • In front of me will be 10 boxes, labelled with numbers 1-10
  • Each will have a map and address which will direct them to their fortune
  • It is entirely up to the person to ‘find their fortune’ 

The 10 fortunes will be placed around places that reflect it. E.g.

If the fortune reads 

‘You will discover an ocean of opportunities’

or

‘Search the skies for the answer to your problems’

These fortunes (of different mediums) will be placed in places such as the sea or the observatory. 

Lastly, there will be a large (hopefully 5-6m) mixed media solid work of the Buddhist god with 10 hands, each palm with the number (in roman numerals) written. The style will be similiar to Ghostpatrol/SupaKitch e.g.

There will also be a strong emphasis on the hands and the meaning that they possess in terms of Buddhist beliefs 

Another aspect that might be important in the major Buddha painting/mixedmedia (felt tip pens, watercolour, etc) would be the background

I originally had the idea of ‘The East meeting the West’ where traditional Chinese landscape would be transformed into the urban city 

However this may be a bit cliche so as Miss Coombes said I might be doing a simple temple background.. infused with some western iconic traits

The background, of course, will be toned down with neutral colours because I want the main focus to be the buddha, especially the hands. As you guys know, I tend to overwork my stuff so I want to avoid over the top, completely filled artworks

I hope you guys like my ideas! 

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January 26, 2012

fuckyeahndasian:

it’s kind of like what SOPA will do right?

(Source: emma-king, via theinturnet)

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January 26, 2012
fuckyeahimartsy: that’s pretty fucking amazing.

fuckyeahimartsy:

that’s pretty fucking amazing.

(via theinturnet)

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January 24, 2012
simonwang: Put a message in a bottle, and toss it out to sea.

simonwang:

Put a message in a bottle, and toss it out to sea.

(Source: szymon)

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December 26, 2011

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