Black Cloud

Jonathan Cao's Artist Record

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Thilo Heinzmann. 

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Stringed Colours

A visual representation of music through the uses of colour and the notes of music. 

Rope and pigment on board

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Symphony of Colour

A visual representation of music.

Acrylic on Board

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Chaos in Man

Oil on Canvas

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Motion Sculpture This sculpture piece is supposed to depict the idea of motion through the use materials and the shapes by referencing mechanical movement.

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Filtered Paintings

Paintings that were shot using camera using analog water bottle filters

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Erasure Oil on Canvas

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Distortion Oil on Canvas

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While you sleep your mind, parts of your mind is still active. The part of the brain where it controls logic and movement is shut down while you sleep. This is known as sleep paralysis, as it halts movement of the body. However, what is active while you sleep is the back of your brain, near the...

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While you sleep, your mind uses your experiences, and your emotions to create dreams. While you sleep, these experiences can become impossible and illogical as they begin to blend together, not making any sense. And when you do awake it is impossible to understand what you have just experienced as it rapidly fades away. What your mind manifests is often times, illogical and difficult to understand with a conscious mind. And so your brain quickly forgets what you dreamt. 

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Dreamscape Emotion Exploration Part I

People dreams are often are influenced by emotions as their dreams are basically manifestations of their deepest desires and fears. To explore how this affects the emotions and depictions of the dreams, I conducted an experiment to test this out.

For the experiment, I recorded a dream that I had the night before as soon as I woke up. At the same time I quickly jotted down a very brief summary of my dream before I forgot and drew a simple drawing of my interpretation of from the feelings and images of my dream.  My dream was about:

I was at a crossroads in the middle of complete darkness. I had to choose a path, a direction in which to travel in. A sense of urgency and panic was felt, as I was forced to make a decision. I make my decision, however, the moment I made it I felt a instant sense of regret. I try to go back, but I am forced to stay on the path and compelled to move forward. And then, I woke up. 

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Dreamscape Emotion Exploration Part II

Using the results that I got from ‘Dreamscape Emotion Exploration Part I’, I refined the image. Experimenting with different tools to further illustrate the emotions and images of my dream.

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Dreamscape Emotion Exploration Part III

After experimenting with Photoshop, I finally create a final image. A representation of my dream visualised. 

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