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THE BILLIONTH BARREL

The Billionth Barrel landmark turned into a hotspot in Kuala Belait. I just had outstanding amongst other end of the week in Brunei! Had the superb occasion to be a piece of the Billionth Barrel Landmark Live Art Event on 11th until 13th October 2019 close by 30 different artists as a component of BSP's 90th Commemoration as the artist worked day and night, on its windbreakers, transforming the landmark into an outside art exhibition. The specialists, the two veterans and youth were welcomed by BSP with the help from the branch of Culture and Expressions under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. The artists formally revealed their manifestations to the Visitor of Honor, Yang Berhormat Significant General (R) Dato Paduka Seri Haji Aminuddin Ihsan receptacle Pehin Orang Kaya Saiful Mulok Dato Seri Paduka Haji Abidin, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. Every one of us got a reference photograph from BSP's over a wide span of time and we had two days to decipher them onto the wall. Individuals from the general population, including individual, families and BSP staffs watched the event beginning to end.

I was given a task by BSP to draw a digital drawing of Rasau onshore field, with this reference from Shell BSP. Historically, Rasau was one of the first stops at Kuala Belait River upstream toward the former administrative capital of Kuala Balai. It's further established inland from the mouth of the Belait River and the Kuala Belait for pirate protection. The first discovery of commercial hydrocarbons in Rasau in 1979 and production started in 1983.

Here’s my initial digital illustrator of Rasau Onshore Field. However, this digital drawing got rejected because the authorities did not satisfy with my initial ideas and another reason is because the choice of colour is too dark.

Here’s my accepted drawing of Rasam Onshore Field on the wall, which took me two days to finished it using aerosol.

I got the occasion to work close by brilliant and extraordinarily capable individuals, made incredible companions and associates with them. A tremendous ardent and true congrats to all the artists who buckled down and with genuine enthusiasm and devotion and to the coordinators and allies of this enormous event. I'd never thought I'd get the opportunity to accomplish something so stunning and even be a part of historic moment. I'm always inconceivably thankful for this experience, something I will always remember. A few of us even got met by our local news. The whole art installation is long lasting and is available to the public to see, both local and international. On the off chance that you actually want to look at some slick work while having a decent walk, this is the spot to go, recommended list of things to visit!.

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WELCOME TO OHAIZI’S FIRST ART VENTURES STORY.

His actual name is Azim, and he can be addressed as Ohaizi, which derived from the words “Oh, Hai Zim”. The term ‘Hai’ is usually being used by Malays for greeting before starting a conversation, which typically originates from the word 'hello’ in English language.

He has been naturally interested in arts since his childhood. Ever since he became aware of his friend’s activities in the arts’ movement. He started to realise he needs to do something about it. At the start, he learned to dance on his own by watching tutorials, dance films and observing through other people. He followed the steps and practiced by himself. He had been dancing for years and making his own choreography. He started to get recognized by a few dance groups and offered to join in one of the well-known local dance groups for public performance but unfortunately, since his minor injuries happened, he had been thinking of doing something more doable with his current situation. He bought himself a DSLR and started to explore in videography and photography fields. At the same moment, he worked on his art slowly only during his leisure time. 

After an unfortunate thing had happened a few years ago, his house was robbed and they took all his precious items including his camera where he placed it in his room while he was in school. He was distressed by it when he instantly found out his camera was stolen. Ever since that incident, He had been isolated himself in the room. One day, he was sitting on his bedroom floor without knowing what to do next and suddenly he found his unfinished painting in the corner. He started thinking about completing the painting. This is how his journey began. Throughout the years, he has been doing arts as a passion and promptly capturing the extraordinary beauty of his social surroundings for the sake of the learning processes.

These stories are not just about painting an art piece in general. However, arts in his point of view is more than just canvas and brushes. Arts have various types of human activities to convey the individual creative, imaginative thoughts or even technical abilities, aimed primarily at their beauty or emotional energy within themselves. 

In addition, this is his personal journey exploring the arts and culture, painting and beauty natures through sightseeing tours of many locations, whether domestic or beyond creative imaginations. These are essentially arts memories being captured throughout his personal journey.

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SENAYAN CITY

Fivust’s artwork

World Class Shopping Destination strategically located in the Senayan area, one of Senayan City strengths are a balanced tenancy mix and fitted with world class tenants such as GUCCI, Salvatore Ferragamo, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent Paris, TODS Furla, etc. Facilities that Senayan City offered are shuttle bus, bicycle parking, ladies parking, valet parking, kids bathroom, baby stroller, deposit room, wheel chair, disabled restroom, executive musholla, nursery room, drivers room, first aid clinic, customer relations service, customer care hotline, doorman, free wi-fi and many more. There is an event held in the Senayan city from the Street Dealin festival that is on 14 december 2019. The Graffiti Party is involved and participates from various other countries such as Anacathie (Singapura), Cracko (Myanmar), Semor (Jerman) and a lot more. The volunteers from Indonesia itself are Aisix, Beat, and Crack. The festival is not only exhibits for graffiti but also the event include Street Beat, Nazar and other interesting events. A mixed-use development located in Senayan area, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. During the Street Dealin' Festival, on day 4, whereas the most peak of the event is Big Bang Street Dealin' 12 located at The Space, Senayan City. The event is packed with many people from various communities, not only just the graffiti communities in general. The Big Bang Street Dealin' 12 exhibits all sorts of exhibitions such as ‘Canstop’ art exhibition that showcase the invited participant works, having a community bazaar selling merchandise of their artwork, trending foods and drinks, Graffiti Party and showcase.

The Canstop art exhibition

The event overall has inspired and motivated me to learn more about other people's culture. In almost every country in the world, street or graffiti artists are influenced and inspired by a multitude of cultures and trends, resulting in a diverse and comprehensive body of urban art that can be seen all over the world. Compared to the end of the 90's and early 20’s where art is considered vandalism, now in this modern era art is accepted from all range of age groups. The event has brought together many people with the same passion but different styles of art. My hope and wish after the Covid-19 pandemics, is to gather around together again with artists around the world

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CAN’S GALLERY

Can’s gallery is a place that held a group art exhibitions by emerging & established Indonesian artists located at Jakarta, Indonesia. The exhibition is called, ‘All Small Things Exhibition.’ The exhibition was arranged on the first floor of the building. Where the gallery exhibits an art work from dynamic compilation of artists from fine art to graffiti artists. The gallery showcases artist artwork from their perspective on daily issues and I was undoubtedly inspired by looking at how dedicated they are on their art work and how they can interpret daily issues into their art work.

According to my way of thinking, interpretation of art refers to the assigning of significance to a piece. The issue to which people sometimes disagree is whether the intention of the artist is important to the understanding of the piece. I came to the event during the night time with my group of graffiti friends as we want to witness the exhibition at Can’s gallery. At the time of exhibition, the building is fully packed with the Indonesian locals and also international that came just for the successful exhibition. Not only the inside of the building is packed with people from art communities, art lovers and from different communities as well but I've seen that outside the building also packed with local people hangout and having a fun time. There is no fee for the entrance of the building, but there is a limit for people to come in at the same time. A considerable number of approximately 80 people can enter the building after approximately 80 people leave the building with a distance of less than a meter apart from each other.

At the exhibition, there are few paintings that inspired me personally. One of the paintings is from Fivust, a local Indonesian artist. Fivust art that exhibit in the Can’s gallery shown is a mixed medium and media on wood. The artwork is using wood and many vibrant colours such as red, black, white and purple with a message written ‘it's not about winning the game.’ Personally, I agree with the message. Doing art is not about winning the game but for me art is the process itself. How we interpret the art into appreciating our love for arts or massage for other people to see.

The second painting that inspired me is also a mixed medium on wood. I can't really remember who is the artist that made the artwork. The style of the artwork is like a ‘kampung boy’ theme. The artwork shown is the picture of a boy with blue short pants and his animal friends.

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STREET DEALIN 12 FESTIVAL

My artwork with team mate

At the near end of 2019, In Indonesia, host an event namely,‘Street Dealin 12 Festival’ where the event is hosted by Gardu House and lasts for 5 days, from 11-15 December 2019. The event is situated in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta.A number of invited artists more than 40 artists have participated in the event ranging from inside Indonesia and other countries such as from Malaysia and Singapore. For instance, Semor (Germany), NILone (China), Waris MSV (Thailand), Anacathie (Singapura), Daos501 (Vietnam), Nick (Indonesia), F21st (Indonesia), Dashes (Indonesia) and many more.On day 1, the artists are given a brief talk for all the line up, colleagues and the media. After that they are shown around the city and the artists can meet up with other artists from another country to exchange thoughts and to have fun collaborating arts. By the end of the day, those artists are presented a street show to entertain the peoples.On the 2nd and 3rd day, filled with ‘By your run camp project’. The artists are invited to make a mural on the wall of the dense villages in Kebayoran Lama. The people in the villages are welcoming the artists with some delicious fried food. The wall is occupied with pleasant colour and nice massage. This could make the negative image of graffiti to disappear and tighten the relationship with local communities. One of the presenter artist stated that by having the project, they can communicate with the public or in this case, the locals in the village as they were curious, especially little children looking at the murals that might inspire them to be a painter one day. The artist thought that this a fun project and they are happy to be invited to do the project and on the other hand, the benefits of the project is to spread awareness for the village. And on day 4, whereas the peak of the event is Big Bang Street Dealin 12 located at The Space, Senayan City. The event is packed with many people from various communities, not only just the graffiti communities in general. The Big Bang Street Dealin 12 exhibits all sorts of exhibitions such as ‘Canstop’ art exhibition , having a community bazaar, Graffiti Party and showcase.By attending this Street Dealin festival is proof that the Graffiti Community is stronger when together with the military valued spirit, Creative and fraternal values. After the event, all the story, laugh and memories will forever engrave in people’s minds. The festival will make the artist want to participate in the next event. This group gathering graffiti community has started since 2011.

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GRAFF JAM

Graff Jam 2020, is a 2 days event that is hosted by Guerrilla Artchitects on 26 and 27 september 2020. The event is open to the public to see talented local artists doing some live painting. A official selection of local artists from a distinct variety of background fields, ranging from fine artists to graffiti artist painting one large-scale mural wall. The Graff jam is strategically located at Unit 39, Ground Floor, Block B, Melabau Complex, Simpang 49, Jalan Serusop, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, BE 2313. I was one of the lines up for the organized event. Graff Jam 2020 was being sponsored with a few spray cans from Diton king. Which is perfect for painting on wall. Brunei is blessed to have so many talented and flexible graffiti artists in their art. Some of these artists are in the force, graphic designers, fashion designers, chef, corporate, teaching but today we celebrate their art in Mural or Wall Painting. On the first day, I’ve arrived a bit early then rest, meanwhile waiting for all the invited artists to come there I do some sketching on my sketch book where we called ‘Black Book’ in art communities and it is part of our art culture to exchange our book for them to sketch.

We were told to come early by 2 pm and after everyone arrived. We were given a short brief about the event by Muhammad 'Ariff bin Haji Suhaimi , the owner of Guerrilla Artchitects. The event was open to the public at 3 pm and there was many food provided by Guerrilla Artchitects. We were asked to eat the food provided before starting to paint on a few objects such as movable, on metal panels and an old not-used bus. Not only the place is filled with amazing food, but the event is also filled with lively music so that people will enjoy the atmosphere. At the event, we can eat the food again and again as there are frequently. Each of the artists that paint during the event has a distinctive kind of style and different perception. I saw there are some photographers that took pictures of our works and some media also came to the event. Some of the artists and the people who came at the event took a day off from their jobs just for the event. On second day, some of the artists made an effort to come early in the morning with spirit and enthusiasm to finish off their master piece that they left yesterday. Some of the art works took the artist until night to finish the art work. On the night of the event the last day, we celebrated it by eating all kinds of delicious food such as pizza, sushi, sandwiches and drinks. Overall, the event brings back great memories to be kept.

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ART TRAVEL PLACES WISHLIST

Art plays a vital role in defining a county's identity, but visits to galleries often help soothing your mind. You can take a few snaps to Instagram or exploring a gallery if you have ideal time. However, with the rise of art tours, art lovers are becoming more commonplace.

World map painting by Moi Hassan (My teammate)

THIS IS MY TOP THREE PLACES TO VISIT IN THE FUTURE

1. THE VATICAN MUSEUMS

 The Vatican Museums are the Vatican City Museums of Public Art and Sculpture. The established museums have nearly 70,000 works, 20,000 of which are on display and currently employ 640 excellent staff in 40 various divisions.

2. POST-BERLIN WALL

The area is an unquestionable venue for the arts in Europe, hundreds of galleries and several street art exhibition. In fact, they even has its own art and antiquities district called Museum Island, which houses five different museums.

3. MEETING OF STYLE

Meeting of Styles is an international graffiti event and supporters network that supports graffiti creation activities in more than 16 countries. The events are aimed at promoting and legitimizing the modern arts. The fundamental idea came back in Germany in 1995 and was reorganized in 2002 under its current name.

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SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes painting.

Sherlock Holmes is one of an interesting person from an author that derived from Britain in fictional story telling. He is admired for his excellent skills at discovering and solving crimes and investigation. He often refers to himself as a detective of consult. He’s known for his proficiency for deduction, observation, logical reasoning and forensic science. Whenever he is being employed for varieties of clients which includes Scotland Yard. This adaptation of an image I found online of the movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch plays the role of Sherlock Holmes so he can be better portrayed by him where he solves crimes and mystery.

The choice of why this character is being used is that he has a certain facial structure that shows he is an excellent movie actor, remembered for how he acts as the character in order to have an impact for good story telling. Its really interesting that I found this picture of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch because it’s a qualitative image that it is a close up picture of him as Mr.Sherlock Holmes the character. More reasons why I understand that I wanted to use this story character is because he is already a good source of identity because he is widely known for being in good movies and made very interesting news in the media for spreading his talent shown in many cinemas.

The movie actor caught my attention that I wanted to explore more of why he’s such a good actor as he demonstrates very movie accurate scenes that people look to watch in other movies in cinema. The performance of his movie is very nice and narrative like a real detective it does not allow people to leave the cinema because he really does capture the attention of the audiences.

This painting is a commission work requested by one of my friend, a big fan of Benedict Cumberbatch and mystery fiction. Therefore, the image for this particular painting really does capture some scenes where the movie carries on in certain stages such as scenes where the camera closes up to his face and when he makes speeches when he is being told to, in addition to that, being the reason for this particular painting is that I would really like to try making an inspiring and captivated shot of his zoomed in scene of his right side of his face. It would really be interesting if I included the left side of his face but I prefer that I only paint one side of his face as he is one of the most recognisable movie actor. At first I was really excited to find out how the product will be completed since the beginning. In the end I was very satisfied to see that it had turned out to be a lot more interesting compared to what I expected than I remember. This was made using aerosol on wood panel using brand: MTN94