Red Hands
Video
2013
Color: tool or toy
I talked to the artist in residence a couple of weeks ago when I requested her to critique my work. She likes my prints and drawing because of the attention to detail. She asked me what problems I have, and I told her about my struggle with controlling colors. I told her I like them too much so it’s hard for me to control them. She thought what i said was funny and she said I should practice using colors as a tool, with strategy and manipulation . A tool is something you use to achieve a goal. So there is certain level of detachment and objectiveness involve in the action. So I asked myself if I haven’t been using colors as tools, what have I been using them as? I realize I had been playing with them. .. Engaging with them, my affection and imagination instead of my logistics and strategy. They were my toys, and hence the mess, the chaos, the disappointment and dissatisfaction. I have to start thinking of them as tools, instead of as toys. Use them discriminatingly according to their purpose.
use them for their effective visual communicative function instead of playing with them for my own personal satisfaction. Let them serve their intended purpose. They should be my teammate instead of my playmate.Yesterday, I gave a presentation at the Elkin Isaac Student Research Symposium on the body of work I have created during FURSCA projects.
Narratives on “House”
Faculty Sponsors: Anne McCauley, Lynne Chytilo
Major: Art
Hometown: Yangon, Myanmar
Narratives on “House” originate from my interest in the use of symbols such as a house, a shrine or a body as metaphors for the human emotional and spiritual condition as I see and experience it. This condition is expressed in amalgamations of human figures, natural, and architectural forms that meld into one uncertain but solid dreamlike spectacle in the sculpture “House”. I strive to explore, narrate and encapsulate these emotional and spiritual experiences in various art forms such as drawing, printmaking, sculpture, artist’s books and video. The resulting narratives come together in a body
of artworks produced in different media, each piece acting as context for the other because of their common back-story.
Supported by: FURSCA
