12 December 2017

Conceptual work (collection)

Personal thoughts and reflections

Cycles

Conceptual art allows me to share certain thoughts and feelings that may be hard to articulate otherwise. This makes for highly personal images that are intentionally challenging to read, like a visual puzzle.

Cycles

Sometimes we meet someone at a serendipitous time. But more often the timing will be off just a notch, and the encounter will go by in passing. Drawn with one of my favorite short stories in mind, by Haruki Murakami: On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning.

Cycles

Procedural Heartbreak

Heartbreak as a procedurally generated puzzle that's different every time, but follows a similar logic. Even if you return it to its initial state, something will have changed.

Procedural heartbreak

Boxed-in Woman

A profile image for "Women Who Draw", a large directory of female illustrators. The image had to portray a single woman on a white background, within certain dimensions. Although the thousands of illustrators interpreting this in their own way have created a fantastic diversity of images, I still found it ironic that all these drawn women still existed within the stated confines. In my entry, a woman is pushing out of her box.

Boxed-in Woman

Go HAM or Go Home

Social commentary on empty corporate careers. Going 'HAM' stands for going 'Hard As a Motherfucker".

Go Ham or Go Home

Golden Thoughts

Meditation teaches to let thoughts and feelings come and go and become an observer. But sometimes it can be nice to focus in on a specific feeling, especially sad ones, and to just sit with it for a while.

Golden Thoughts

Comfort Machine

4:12 AM - "I woke up from uneasy dreams and rolled onto my side. The light from my phone and all the life inside of it felt comfortable and warm".

Comfort Machine

Stroke

When half the lights go out, it's often unexpected and always frightening. Going through this uncertainty and fear with a family member, I created this image to help me process everything.

Stroke lights out

Overwhelming Stuff

Marie Kondo's method for tidying up can be a kind of relaxing exercise in self-care when practiced in one's own space. However, when it is used to help someone else clean up their place, the experience will be very different.

Overwhelming Stuff

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