Wandering Works

@justchak

Joanna Chak is an artist interested in travel, communing with human beings, nature, and explorations of space. With artistic roots in NYC, she is and is now living and exploring the arts in Singapore. Please explore and contact her for any ideas on collaborations, works, or education opportunities.

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#contentiousconversations #cardagmes #play

#cardgames #questions #contentiousconversations #art #play

Plant Purifiers - NASA Clean Air Project Presentation at an elementary school in Taiwan. Kids learn to identify smells of toxins around the house, flow through a yoga sequence based on plants, and play games to dramatically enact what happens when Benzene molecules come into with plants known to clear pollutants out of the air.

Plants commonly found in Taiwan that can clear the air of formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, and other Volatile Organic Compounds are:

Ivy

Peace Lily

Lilyturf

Spider Plant

Golden Pothos

#peacelily #kids games drama yoga plants NASACleanAirAct portableplantfilters interactions

Workshop Demo on local plants and leaves.

Plant in question in local to Dansui, the old waterfront and colonial warehouses of yore. Spent the day engaging local kids in a little round of arts and crafts to get their interest piqued in the common fig leaves around the area, and how they offset CO2.

#Bamboostudio #art plants fiscus figtree paint community kids crafts

Iterations of portable plant filters, worn around town by dashing young individuals. Photographed are golden pothos, also known as Devil’s Ivy, in small, biodegradable pin carriers.

#sculpture performance #greendesign plants jewelry cleanair

Tea time, in progress and installed. Plasma-cut steel, ceramics, laser-cut bristol, tea from 6 continents.

From one gun to many.

As part of my series on the effects of patterns and symbolism, these prints were an exploration into Lacan's theory of the gaze. I wanted to see how far I could decontextualize a loaded symbol, pushing it towards patterns, which were at first imprinted onto paper, and later onto most intimate objects such as bedsheets.

Braile Boxes.

This series was made in response to an open call art project that centered around decoding. The theme of decoding brought to mind the various layers of codes used in euphemisms when talking about the war (eg. friendly fire, collateral damage, casualties - words and methods that refer to serious things lightly). The various conflicting first hand reports in contrast to military reports, and press reports form a web of confused communication that hide actual events that are pertinent to the ways and methods we consider ethical in war. These boxes references events of miscommunication in key events of the war and media.

Braile boxes. 5"x6"x5.5". Engraved and cut Plybirchwood.