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Soe Yu Nwe, Portfolio

Soe Yu Nwe is a burmese chinese artist, born 1989, she graduated with an MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island school of Design (RIsD). Soe Yu Nwe’s cultural duality helps her to create really beautiful sculpture taking influence from chinese heritage and the local burmese influence. ‘Local animistic beliefs, folklores and mythologies inspire the imagery in my work. I am particularly interested in the female figures in Buddhist mythologies.’ ‘Her experience of living cross-culturally has inspired her to reflect upon her own identity through making, conceiving it as a fluid, fragile and fragmented entity. Through transfiguration of her emotional landscape by poetically depicting nature and body in parts, she ponders the complexities of individual identity in this rapidly changing globalized society’ Soe Yu Nwe (2020). Statement. Retrieved 16th November,2020, From:https://www.soeyunwe.com/statement Soe Yu Nwe (2020). About Me. Retrieved 16th November,2020, From: https://www.soeyunwe.com/bio-contact Soe Yu Nwe’s work is really important to me, although my work isn’t mainly focused on sculpture Soe Yu Nwe’s focus on burmese and chinese culture is comforting, i guess it’s like representation. There are burmese artists out there and the culture i take from is not some made up thing, it’s real and tangable. sounds dumb but to see someone else taking influence from their cultures which is also part of my cultures is kind of empowering.

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Zhou Fan Contemporary Chinese Artist // Examples of Zhou Fan’s works. I love the use of almost neon colours, paired with more subtle but still illuminative colours and mixed amongst growing natural forms and pattern. HI.FRUCTOSE(2020). Zhou Fan’s Imaginative Paintings of Bizarre Plant Life (2014). Retreived 16th November, 2020, From: https://hifructose.com/2014/07/14/zhou-fans-imaginative-paintings-of-bizarre-plant-life /

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Zhou Fan’s Imaginative Paintings of Bizarre Plant Life

Chinese artist Zhou Fan creates whimsical depictions of natural growths gone amuck: fungi, weeds and fluorescent drippings of alien goo stack upon characters’ heads and faces like strange, in…

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Zhou Fan. Portfolio of paintnigs by Zhou Fan - Chinese Contemporary Artist. Zhou Fan was selected as one of the top 3 emerging Chinese contemporary artists at the Chinese Ar Prize in 2007.

Zhou Fan // Chinese contemporary artist The link is to the artist page : https://www.zhoufanart.com/portfolio.html Zhou Fan’s work is fantastical, filled with colour and pattern and very vibrant but at its core I think it’s grotesque. It’s colour palette deceiving, mushroom portraits and fish heads, the work sometimes not in one finished form. I like it a lot, Fan’s work is grotesque, to me , in a conceptual way. I can see the unfurling of ideas and the merging of forms? what am I saying here ? Fan’s work reminds me of the excerpt i read from ‘School Nurse Ahn Eun-young’ by Chung Serang and more so the Netflix drama adaptation of the novel which was called 'The school Nurse files’. Zhou Fan’s work is grotesque but is all nature, fungus and bugs and a lot of tentacle like strings. like confetti from a party popper. This idea of popping confetti attached to figures that are growing with fungus and frogs and such on them is a bit yuck, but at the same time the colour is brilliant. it’s like ghostly gooey jet streams. Anyways this is how I think the jellies from School Nurse Ahn Eun-young would look like. I know the drama depicts it different but Fan’s work really seems like it fits perfect. Floating spheres, exploding ectoplasmic confetti and fish, frogs, bugs, buddha heads. I guess the imagery list continues the more you look at the works. It’s immersive and assaulting to look at. I really think it’s cool and feeds my ideas a lot in terms of being able to see work that is really otherworldly and so rich. So sure of itself.

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PENCIL IDEAS. I drew these imagess onto some note paper, I was planning an image to tuft. I like the idea of having weaponary images but using soft textile medium and i've got a few ideas on how to translate this visually. anyways im still developing my range of imagery , i should push it more, i want more narrative ( is this the right word) within my work .

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TRACING PAPER DOODLES I got some tracing paper to print onto but it was way too thin to go through the printer. I’ve been drawing on it instead. I like the idea of monkeys, my mum had a monkey given to her when she still lived in Myanmar, they had to give it to the zoo though, im not sure on the whole story, thats just my mums memory. south east asia is full of monkey and they’re all over the temples and pagodas, theyre naughty and cute at the same time. its funny . I also have a really vivid memory of visiting my godmother in singapore when i was in year 4 and everyday at lunch we had to make sure all the windows and doors were shut because the monkeys would come and try to take food from the houses. Also a lot of old south east asian manuscripts are full of monkeys, monkeys have always been prominent in the history of south east asia. I should research this more. They’re always depicted as their own tribe, wearing traditional garments and going into war or being around palaces and things etc. 
Rabin Shaw is a good artist to look at for East Asian folklore type art . 
anyways thats why i wanted to draw a monkey character, I think it would be fun to develop, even if just to develop my illustrative skills .

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Tokyo MX ads by KAIKAI KIKI comp. I love these ads featuring yume lion by Takashi Murakami. It is a great example of superflat I really love Takashi Murakami's work, things like this ad are super great, it gives another realm of existence to his work, there is also a really cool Vuitton ad that Murakami did I need to get that link up on here too . Japanese neo-pop / superflat is really cool concept to me and it really influences my thinking about art.

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12/11/2020 - SP1 GROUP CRIT ON TEAMS Had a group crit with my classmates, Emily, Jack, Lucy, Jess and tutor Jill this morning. 9:30-11/12 ish. It was a silent crit where we would each post images of our current works and then proceed to be shush whilst the group commented on the work. The goal of the crit was to analyse work with no explanation of what the artists intention was, to see how the work engages with an audience and to also give constructive critisism in how to develop each others work further. The relationship between art and audience is v important this semester but it's also really important in general, regardless of the artists intention art is viewed differently by eveyone who sees it. Each persons catalougue of references and image systems is different so interpretation of artwork will be different because of this, idk does that even make sense . The crit was good and it was good to get feedback and critiques and notes on where to possibly go next and develop into .

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How to punch needle ! This is one of the first videos I watched on how to punch needle, it is really clear and in depth about making a very symetrical punch needle piece. It is really helpful to watch and have access to videos like this, I can learn more in a visual way and also I am able to replay at my own speed and go back to parts etc. I think the most beneficial thing about watching a range of technique videos is that I have the ability to learn from others mistakes before I make them myself.

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Sekaikei (sekai meaning "world", and kei meaning "type") is a Japanese term that is not clearly defined, spread primarily through the Internet but with some professional interest (there've even been academic lectures). The simple definition of a …

Defining sekaikei. which is usually linked to Evangelion and other distopian style anime, when an anime plot revolves around the relationship between two character and develops around the characters, usually also involving an end of the world sinaro .

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AHH MOTIVATION

So the past few weeks I was in a mental rut, a heavy and out of body state, it was yuck and I think I was in it for about two weeks, during this time I have tried to focus and make but have been very overwhelmed and frustrated with really everything. I am not so much in this yuck anymore, I think I'm coming out of it and I feel much more in my body than the past few days. I wanted to write a list of things here, things to do when I am maybe in a rut or in a floating state. 1. Lynda Barry - drawing skeletons with your eyes closed 2. Carson Ellis - Transmundane Tuedays (not restricted to Tuesday) (daily prompts) 3. Set up a still life with things around your room and draw them without caring about it too much other than translating the image from your hands. ( think i got this from a carsonellis post too ) 4. Wendy MacNaughton - Draw Together, responding to sounds/music with drawing 5. Do some inktober prompts even if it's not october :3

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Some examples of Burmese Manuscripts/Parabaik .

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Neon Genesis Evangelion is an anime, dystopian fantasy I guess you would describe it as, very end of the world but based in 2015 kind of. The plot holds several storylines however the more prominent ideas in the anime actually are carried throughout all the characters. Escapism, loneliness and identity. The video linked is a really in depth analysis of all of the Evangelion anime and movie branches. It's really interesting and Is somewhat in correlation to some Ideas that Chiho Aoshima talks about with ideas of world ending circumstances and in relation to separate Evangelion animation projects plays with the ideas of AlterNet futures and identities within the same story. The goal of the anime is to expose the idea of escapism and human behavior in a negative light i guess. To show that as humans we always revert back to carnal nature and we are self-serving and self-preserving creatures, but ultimately the anime has been a great success and has helped to develop escapism in anime culture even further. idk. I love evangelion because of its focus on the inner workings of protagonists Rei Ayaname and Shinji Ikari, both searching for human contact and identity.

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ryo/light/rei // more edits I want to push my image making skills further, I don't know how its going, I think I have a thing where I layer too much and lose what I was aiming for . I like the ideas and ability to make images that are playing with photos in a non realistic way though . The variation of edits above have like 20-30 layers, which even though it doesn't look like it there are so many things that are seperate, in comparison to the first edits I did I am still unsure about these edits, do they show what I want them to ? maybe i just have to push forward with it and see where i go The images, including the previous extremely layered images are all part of what im putting under the 'RYO' heading ( this heading may change. The images and character are not an alter ego, i'm trying to convery a certain side of my personality that ressonates with characters in popular culture, or is traits of popular culture characters that a past or different part of my personality resonate with. These characters are Ryo from devilman crybaby, Light Yagami from death note and Rei Ayaname from Neon Genesis Evangelion. All of which are japanese manga/anime characters . .

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drawings paintings --------------- shop info

Sofia Arnold is a mix media artist, her works are like murals, they're super full and it's like looking back at 16th century Myanmar manuscripts. I really enjoy the soft sort of look, like the imagery is still finding it's way in places and hasn't fully been formed all the way but it is at the same time . idk .

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Tate// How to print like Warhol I love Andy Warhol's prints of Mao, the prints are from the 70's and have a really painterly effect. I think that taking some of the photo edits I have done into screen print could be really interesting, maybe into clothes,making a more physical style of the digital edits I make on photoshop ? Really layered and full of movement ? idk I'm thinking like 'problemboy666' style .

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Rebirth of the World // Chiho Aoshima I love this work by Aoshima that was in collaboration with animator Bruce Ferguson. Its Aoshima's lens on what the world is and what it is yet to become, influenced by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. I think the work is really signifigant and also has a lot to say about the climate crisis we have found ourselves in now. It also comments on the relationship between nature and humans in a way that shows a conflicting relationship of an attempt at harmony but a reality of destruction .