Finally!!! Completed My Final Year Project!

Was really really busy these few weeks!  The Siesta Festival was taxing; literary criticism was taxing; Korean Language test; and most taxing was this FYP!  Anyway, I had finished the work on time and next week is the exhibition.  So here it is, another one of my works. Now can sleep in peace.

 

 

 

Blessings - 福

Really busy with the FYP(final year project).  I'll be doing relief prints based on the chinese symbols and characters.  Four panels 2' by 4' in size and another one of size A2.  福, 禄, 寿, 喜 and 年年有余.  These are the two completed. the first one is nian nian you yu.  I print on own made paper.

This is 禄, prosperity, fortune.  This one is the inked block.  The deers shown are in etymology forms.  Deer is homophonic with the chinese character "lu"(禄), meaning fortune, prosperity.

真的是魔法棒吗？

28年华，沧海桑田，小毛头都长大了。细说当年，往事都可当成开心的玩笑了。许多事都无法再来过，许多事都无法改变，唏嘘而已！

可喜的是：你们都健康地成长了！是老师的魔法棒吗？

老师的记忆不好，许多人和事都记不起，还有劳你们提示、提醒。可否一一告诉我谁是谁？记忆都迷糊了。老了。

悸动的心

文孝传来了短讯，心里一揪，他把“懒惰虫”当玩笑！这番心情，老师是惭愧啊！倒是觉得对你太苛刻了！岁月的洗礼，心灵的沉淀，为人母亲的经验都在在告诉我，那对孩子是不对的！还好你文孝健健康康地长大了。不过要是重来，年轻的我会如何做呢？现在的我当然是另当别论了。

今天起得特别早，本来爱睡，睡到九点十点是常事；文孝的正面心态，宗棋的激动，激起了连番涟漪……

谢谢你们快乐又健康地长大了！谢谢你们还记得老师，虽然我并没做好百分百。

28年之久

今天一早收到一则短讯，是甘曼挽挽华小学的陈爱玲传来的。心里有点激动！28年了这些学生还记得我！教学最大的收获莫过于此！！ 过后再收到王宗棋同学的短讯并且和他通了电话，心里是无限欢喜。难为他们还记得当时的点点滴滴。在我而言，那些只不过是该做的······ 宗棋说会把相片传来，倒是蛮期待。

挽华有我许多记忆。当时还年轻，虽然疼你们但是还是不懂得表达，现在年龄大了，我发现欠你们好多拥抱。该在你们表现好时，给你们一个拥抱，沮丧时也给你们一个拥抱。 可以补回吗？ 

老师想问你们：好吗？生活愉快吗？身体健康吗？

在这儿贴上近照，让你们看看28年后的老师。照片摄于今年6月2日在法国的翡冷翠。因为喜欢画画，所以老师现在槟城理科大学修读美术，明年中就毕业了。

忘了告诉你们，老师已退休了。时间真的过得好快！一眨眼而已！

reviewing the passing moments

it's been long while. The seoncd year is more taxing. I took Print II, Painting II, Introduction of language(english), English, Western Art History and SHE for first term and Print III, Drawing, Modern Malaysian Art, BM, Phonetic and Study of Language(English) for the second term. The coming third year, I have to get ready to present the proposal for the FYP when semester starts in September 2011. I have decided on the theme and the title, it has to do with the chinese character texts and the chinese auspicious symbols. I will be doing woodcut printing.

this is my final sem2 project. It is called "Ruyi Jixiang". The character texts read: ruyijixiang which is homophonic with the graphic at the lower right hand corner, an auspicious symbol meaning "as you wish". If things can be as you wish, everyone should be happy and blissful. Red is used as background to convey the joy in conjuction with the happy occassion ( could be new year, could be joyful celebration).




For drawing, it was more of collage. See photos below.





I'll continue the theme on print III, using chinese auspicious symbols and texts. will be doing sketches during the term holidays.

Actually just came back from touring Paris and Rome. The Louvre and Orsay Museums are most rewarding. Gallery Academy and Borghese gallery not so exciting. Of course I get to see the original David by Michaelangelo. It's spectacular to say the least. But Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo is the grand finale of the whole tour. It is awesome. I also saw master artworks of gustav courbet, van gogh, manet, monet, renoir, JL David, Auguste Ingres, Fragonard, Watteau, Poussin, and lots and lots of great artists. It is truely the tour of the aesthetic world. Other than the artworks that draw my focus, I do not find Paris and Rome interesting at all. Not as clean, not as efficient, not as friendly, not as convenient as Singapore. Malaysia is more friendly, more convenient and food is heavenly!!

Rintis

Tonight went to see the opening ceremony for RINTIS - the final year art school students' exhibition. The product and designing students were very impressive. I marvel their creativities and innovations. Some of the products are really really beautiful apart from commercially practical as well. They will become good product designers. Many of them did the "exhibits" in the art school workshop, toiling and sanding, spray painting and attaching the various components one by one. I saw their hardworks and efforts, they truly deserved merits for their projects. The fine arts exhibits were quite disappointing though. I may be too conservative in my approach to arts. I still can't bring myself to like and accept paintings of Andy Warhol and Sean Scully or Malevich as art, I mean "art as art". They should be in the sociology or philosophy section.