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Final audio for ADAD Assessment 3

The audios resound through the glass room. I shudder when they wail, weep.

Assessment 3 - ADAD

This assignment was the most extensive, strenuous and challenging out of every assessment task that I’ve done so far. I struggled immensely when it boiled down to communicating the concept I wanted visually and having it deliver a sort of impact, and it made me pay closer attention to the finer details in design while still paying attention to other aspects that aren’t so easily customisable, such as the logo. This assignment really did teach me to work with a more practical, more ‘graphic designer’ mindset because of the presence of a client, which gave me a lot of insight into how a career would look like and the kind of work that I might do.

I think the harder aspects of this project came from the concept, personally. Since the concept had to be tied down to visibility, and is also an established brand, the ideas that could be forwarded would have to be complementary to the brand’s overall feel. I found a lot of trouble trying to make concepts fit and more so because sometimes, concepts that you don’t necessarily enjoy are the strongest.

Planning it constantly, reviewing the concept almost all the time, that helped me be more focused and attentive, given how I usually just jump headfirst without so much a second glance; that saved me from making numerous little mistakes I might’ve run into. I feel like I’ve gotten a little better with my digital skills, definitely, and that I have a greater appreciation for the finer details.

This task, I think, pushed me to really delve into the idea of communicating a story through visuals and how to turn that into something compelling, which is something I found difficult because I’m much more comfortable writing. It made me recognise what elements I could use to narrate a concept, how to set certain moods, tones, visualising words, and I see it influencing my practice, not all at once, as I’ve still got much to learn, but it’s started, and I’m highly appreciative of that.

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Perception

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This collaborative piece focuses on perception. Our group aims to explore the deeply vulnerable aspects of our self, revealing the internal struggles we face on a daily basis as we delve into our anxieties, fears, insecurities, raw emotions that are normally invisible. We bring all these into light through photography, distorting our images, submerging the audience into a kaleidoscope of colours and beauty, the discomfort of it all weaving into the piece, brought out through the use of synesthesia. The shining wavelengths of gradience that paint our faces lead towards the culmination, a change in how we perceive a person, from the mundane to a multifaceted individual, allowing the audience to visually experience the mind’s metamorphosis, the usual unseen; there is no black and white, there is never anything that simple. This artwork draws inspiration from Richard Mosse’s piece ‘The Enclave’ (2013), where it similarly brings out the intangible, unseen parts of the world by changing the natural colour of the luscious green environment of The Democratic Republic of Congo into a jarring bubble gum pink colour, unearthing horrific external trauma of their civil war, unveiling the isolation, the vulnerable and sinister parts of us. While Mosse focuses on the external effects of war onto the environment, we deal with the internal conflicts, the mental battles. Mosse’s piece is a jarring one, one that brings light to the truth and brutality, to the rawness of it all, and we hope that our piece evokes the same idea his did.

Anxiety shots with a coloured overlay (projection mapping). What makes you tick?

ADAD1001 Assessment 1. Box Transformations

H2O Air / H2O Water

Fried foods, ice tea, egg noodles, these are the few things I would eat growing up in Indonesia, and they had been a quintessential part of my meals ever since I was a child, not just because I enjoyed them, but because there are many memories behind the act of buying them. Now, however, I have all but stopped because the oil used to fry the foods is laden with plastic, the ice in the teas taken from sewers, the egg noodles stuffed with formaldehyde.

This ongoing problem inspired the concept of my project; what do you do when you realise something you enjoy has been made in unsavoury conditions? How does that change its meaning? While the product of my experiments led to something that’s rather pleasing, the process had me rendering water inedible by infused it with cardboard and paint, and then onto something more literal, like the process of drawing it out on photoshop and mapping it onto paper, and then painting it over with cardboard water again. I then recorded the trickling of water as I squeezed dampened cardboard. While the process isn’t drastically vomit-inducing, it does change the symbolism. Just like how noodles changed from happiness to trepidation, the idea of something clear and pure, and beautiful is now steeped in skepticism.

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Repainted ocean bubbles with a sky blue and leftover cardboard water.

Redrawn on paper, and they’re different again. Bubbles breaking the surface. Done with a dark blue 0.1 COPIC multiliner.

Wave, Polar Coordinates, Ripple.

A change of shape and size, and variation, and they remind me of the oceans.

Open in Photoshop, trace the paints with white. Another layer above, but below the lines, filled with brown, and they’re now sea foam and bubbles.

Water droplets on paper now filled with red, green and blue paint when the tip of the brush touches its surface. Leave them out to hang and dry.

Cut the box into strips, blanched them in boiling water until they turned darker. Strain the cardboard, keep the water and separate into two containers. Grab a watercolour notepad and set down the brushes.

A static web page that won’t reveal whatever it is that’s written in its box. We’ve often learnt about history through one point of view, the victor’s point of view, and it’s limiting, it’s constricting; there’s so much more underneath.

I tried to mimic that by intentionally cutting off the paragraphs so only part of the story is seen and you’ll never really fully grasp it unless you take an extra mile of effort (to see the whole text and to read it in English).

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Text taken from Andrea Hirata’s Laskar Pelangi

#sem 2

Meatball Soup

Today’s recipe is a good alternative for vegetarians, as there’s no meat involved. I’ll be cooking a warm soup with peas and corn in a clear broth, topped with cardboard ‘meatballs’. They’re a healthy substitute for meat if you’re ever in a pinch and they don’t require much preparation.

The soup is a great complement to the cool weathers of autumn and winter, and if you find yourself sick with a cold, this is the recipe to make. Let’s get started!

Ingredients: -A piece of cardboard -A quarter cup of frozen vegetables -A tablespoon of salt -Water

Fill a pot halfway through with water and turn the stove on

Meanwhile, cut the cardboard piece into small strips

Drop the cardboard strips into the pot and leave it to boil

When the cardboard pieces become soft to the touch, strain the soup through a sieve. Remember to drain them into a bowl, as the water will be the stock in this recipe

Lay out the cardboard on a chopping board and finely cut them; we want a somewhat paste-like consistency

Roll them into golfball sized balls and set aside

For the soup, pour the stock right back into the pot and turn the stove on

Grab a bag of frozen vegetables and scoop about a quarter a cup; if you don’t have any measuring utensils, simply eyeball the amount

Drop that into the now-boiling stock and cook it through

Season the stock with salt

Turn the stove off and pour it into a bowl

Drop the ‘meatballs’ into the soup and enjoy

#sem 2

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