a bite of air

more words again!

2010-07-17T07:12:00.000-07:00

I've been procrastinating again, and decided to make up for it:

For quite awhile i'd been putting random pieces of writing here.

Mainly because i tend to like categorizing things, and separate them into different accounts/sites so they each have their own mood or purpose.

But it wasn't open for a long, long while- the same publishing-shyness sort of took over again.
I guess it really wouldn't hurt, though, to let it be findable... so if you don't mind random unexplained nonsense, do feel free to have a look. : )

2010-04-09T23:10:00.000-07:00

It's exactly a year since I last posted.

It feels strange.

All along I'd been uneasy with blogging- because:

1. unless used as a communication platform, it seemed an unnecessary strain of exhibitionism.

2. I had mixed feelings about putting thoughts out into a public domain.

3. I had no time.

Recently, I began to take up 1.- as a communication platform to a very small group of people.

2. and 3. still remain, especially 3. So I can't guarantee my regularity. But I am beginning to try again, for the sake of 1. in our busy, no-contact lives.

downstairs

2009-04-10T09:22:00.000-07:00

this basement's special because of the sneaky way the sun comes in through the holes. and because of the funny little corner we called the Secret Garden. and because it was where we ran downstairs to play.

sea-ness

2009-04-10T09:17:00.000-07:00

it was my very first yabi- palm sized and glistening, greeny-purplish with little rainbow glints glancing all over its shell

bruckyere variations

2009-04-10T09:08:00.000-07:00

this was when I first came across Berlinde de Bruckyere's work- breathtakingly poignant. It sparked off a series of mixed media drawings..

hyzenthlay

2009-04-10T08:51:00.000-07:00

meow

2009-04-10T08:46:00.000-07:00

a series in my sketchbook about cats and their people

three

2009-04-10T08:41:00.000-07:00

if a man had wings

2009-04-10T08:35:00.000-07:00

these were from a collection of drawings based on alfian sa'at's poem

it's

2009-04-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

it's warm in the nests where they can't hide

three

2009-04-10T08:15:00.000-07:00

Horse mask

2009-04-10T07:50:00.000-07:00

for utami's short film 'Doppelganger': horsemask, stylized in a pointy way to resemble utami's original drawing, was made from papier mache

we made other bits and pieces of costumes as well- and the actors and actresses were great sports. Notwithstanding horsemask's size, its actor actually danced and sang. This mean feat surely deserved a medal of some kind, as horsie's interior wasn't particularly soft...

home floor

2009-04-10T07:45:00.000-07:00

this is what I saw in recurring dreams: wandering around my home floor and places around my block, and everywhere was suddenly so empty, so devoid of people, that you could hear the strange stillness...

oriole

2009-04-10T07:41:00.000-07:00

litho stone- in various stages

2009-04-10T07:30:00.000-07:00

with a luscious drizzle of gum arabic...

After wiping off the actual drawing and inking the etched stone up, all that black just blossomed out.

the sepia tint of asphaultum

more previous drypoints

2009-04-02T17:52:00.000-07:00

nenek's portrait

this is the chinese peony pattern for nenek's portrait base...it's a matte woodcut relief print with a drypoint over it. the woodcut provides the texture (sort of worn-floral-sofa flaking); the drypoint puts the lines in and gives a glowing sheen (because of the oil-ink)

faceneck set of portrait drypoints

little fashion studies

labels in progress

2009-04-02T17:14:00.000-07:00

several kinds of sticking papers did not work

but the problem of not being able to print the smallest type was solved by a wonderful 100p yellow mesh ..
this lets you have finer 'pixels' on your screen stencil.

plainwhite

2009-04-02T17:03:00.000-07:00

looking

2009-04-02T09:17:00.000-07:00

charbonelle made all the difference.

babes and the gerald's-baby

2009-04-02T08:49:00.000-07:00

guaranteed

2009-03-28T03:51:00.000-07:00

pathbridge

2009-03-28T03:39:00.000-07:00

for a landscape theme- the treetop path close to my home.
this was an A2 plate on steinbach paper...details:

this plate almost made a major jam in our press...

one of the initial small studies, sealed in an acrylic plate...the moss-like effect on bottom right is created by the sealant fizzing.

concretewindow

2009-03-28T03:32:00.000-07:00

details

smoked fawns

2009-03-28T03:06:00.000-07:00

a two-layered silkscreen print; box form based on my friend's empty packs. I have many friends who smoke. it sometimes gives me a feeling of sadness that is misty, because of what they have told me about the reasons why.

there is a progression in the printing of the boxes; the lines get heavier, because of increasing the pressure of swiping with the squeegee.

sketchbook pages

2009-03-07T07:32:00.000-08:00

sketchbook pages

2009-03-07T07:24:00.000-08:00