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Good evening everyone, I hope you have all been having a wonderful summer !
If you are on summer break that is ...
A menagerie of motivations have sprung to my mind, and I desire to act upon them. One of said motivations urges me and coos me into a relaxed stupor and then hits me with a,
"Scribble down something for your blog likely to be entrenched in dodgy spelling, teen colloquialisms and way too much colour, come on Cyd-Kassandra, you got this!”
I lovingly comply, for one : I am successfully procrastinating on painting a idyllic landscape filled to the brim with lavender for a large installation piece and two - I am in the mood to see words appear on the page, or in this case my computer screen.
Honestly, I keep skipping out months with my blogging .. life gets very busy ! It pains me for "my baby" to be left to their own devices for so long. Come on, feed my lurid delusions and lets pretend this page has some sort of fantastical sentience without my interference ...
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Honestly, that would be really great. Imagine a blog which could write its own posts, eh ?
Anyways !
My motivations for this post are scattered and frenetic. However, there is a fundamental truth about Art which I would always want to re-iterate and reinstate as common knowledge. Conceptually, Art is a historically decentralised practice. The lines between "plagiarism" and "sampling" are honestly facetious and in my opinion, rather irrelevant. Indeed, Art is a beautiful collaboration between you and every artist, your antecedents and subsequents.
I want to share 10 of the most prominent figureheads on my own practice. Effectively, I want to dispel the elitism that exists in avant circles and the exclusivity of alternative aesthetics as a whole. In all earnestness, I have lovingly ripped off and appropriated all I know off of a ginormous vat of amazing creatives. This is not a bad thing ! This is very normal, in fact.
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I am not ten years old. I just mentioned 10 in the last block of text and this PicMix is really cute and has the number 10 in it … okay rambling caption over ! |
EEK !! I am very excited !! Have not felt such burning motivations in such a long time, I tend to feel sedentary in my artistic practice, today is the day we change the pace of my activity. Frankly, writing does not come casually to me, it is a labour of concentrated exertion and fluctuating passion, hence the sporadic upload schedule of this blog.
Subconsciously, I have always associated Academia and the gesture of writing to be bound to one another. This is an erroneous assumption which has undoubtedly stifled me in my pursuit for a more regular blogging schedule. You know, it is something you got to power through - Reading and Writing are integral pastimes and will serve you greatly. Do not be like me blog-readers ! Okay, now I am seriously waffling/ Pseudo-self-introspective incoherent jargon is now over. We must put the machine away, no more waffles !
Shall we start ?
Let us commence.
1. Peter Tully
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Flamboyance ! |
This man acted as the ultimate impetus, who motivated me to continue making my own clothes. If we were to chronicle my alternative fashion journey, I have been wearing "Decora" since I was 14 years old, I am 17 now - for the first lets say ... two years ( ?? ) of my fashionable development, I wore other people's designs. Whilst most of the frocks and jewellers I "adorned"
( eh, too ritualistic of a verb for a dippy, punky, snarky thrash of a 14 year old who adored DODDODO ... )
were "sustainably sourced"
( I have not purchased fast fashion out of my own volition for the longest time, not something my family tends to do regardless, this is what I mean by sustainable but the politics of green-conscious fashion are inevitably rocky and contentious ... waffle again, let us continue )
they were not overtly personal, if there is one thing I dislike about my earlier works it is how conventional and monolithic my aesthetic references were. Most likely because I assimilated into subculture at a really early age. Aw, I was kind of cute though - blunt hime bangs, a sardonic smirk with a wall of makeup.
In early 2022, I started to take the initiative to make some of my own frocks, by embellishing tops I wore on a daily basis. My synthetic, neon Decora sensibilities started to erode and terraform into more organic structures. Indeed, my style had a pivotal development in 2022 and is currently on a theatrical, uphill trajectory.
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Flashback to some of my shoddy embroidery project ! I am uploading a costume I had been brainstorming for the longest period of time, onto Instagram soon ! It includes this top and some funny shorts … I should include the costume in this video once I complete editing the photos ! |
I am trying to refine this relationship between my subcultural influences and my historical influences, until I curate a style which I feel is indicative of my inner universe and dreamlike sensibilities.
I think Peter Tully'a work aided in this mission to self-discovery greatly. Humorously, I find myself accidentally ripping off some of his fashionable cues without realising, it is interesting how external medias infiltrate your cognitive patterns and physical systems. I suppose Art is all about mimicry and let me say, when I tell you I fully rip this man off, I truly do !
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My Pinterest profile picture in a better resolution ! This is one of my favourite, “casual” outfits - not too many bracelets, or necklaces. I am not being satirical ! But when I tell you I am not original … I mean it ! |
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I borrowed Peter Tully’s pin-badge hat haha. Although, his hat is far more ornate than mine, I should honestly try and recreate one of his looks to a “T” at one point in my life. Gorgeous ! |
Just look at these wonderful, conceptual designs :
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This photo was taken by William Yang. This is Peter Tully at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1981, before he became the Creative Director of the Parade. I love the integration of fringe into his costume, and there is something very folkish about this costume. Shamanic almost. If you click on this image, you will be taken to a Google Arts & Culture page for this photo !
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"Does it hurt to wear all of that jewellery ?"
"Are you uncomfortable with all of those layers ?"
"Are you hot in all of that ?"
I irrevocably stifle my physical comfort for emotional gratification. Inarguably, my outfits ( the more maximalist ones ) are a bit itchy, a bit fiddly and relatively heavy. This is a compromise I will ceremonial partake in every day I get the chance to, you only get to dress for yourself once ; you have only one lifetime. Fashionable autonomy, to me, is an extension of my artistic practice and is my communicative recognition of my own beauty and potential to escape the hyperreal standards for an "appearance" that every human is conditioned to believing in.
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What you should be saying to yourself every time you get dressed. |
Peter Tully was one of the first artists I became accustomed to, who had a fully customisable look - from head to toe, one could not discern where his clothes were from, nor where he was from either. A charismatic projection of queer regalia and fanciful, reflective, rainbow creative energy. Who wouldn't want to be that ? Young me as enamoured to say the least ...
In short, Peter Tully was an amazing and prominent jewellery designer and costumer in the early to mid 1980's, most notably recognised for his creative direction of the Sydney Mardi Gras. Flamboyance at its finest, with overt nods to historical dress. Hehe, should have given this description a bit earlier.
His style is a flurry of affordable maximalist objects, almost adjacent to The Cockettes in its DIY, performative, and queer ethos. I love it !
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I never take mirror selfies ! But … I strongly back a fashionable, flurry of ordinary objects ! It is so nice to wear things which you have made and embroidered yourself ! I made my hair accessory, some of my necklaces and I decorated my scarf ! |
I almost go into a provocative, hysterical frenzy whenever I see jewellery. Genuinely, I turn into this animatedly gleeful bundle of nerves whenever I see large stones, real or fake, antique or newly acquired. Such a happy place for me, I will never grow weary of precious gems. There is something painfully alluring and addictive in assuming Maximalist proclivities, as if you are a child pretending to play the role of "Queen" or "Princess". Part escapism part self-introspection, everyday we play dress up, don't we ?
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Sometimes I dress up like I have square-rimmed glasses, and use Napster to download Math Rock albums … not exactly the most mystical of aesthetics. Also, I do not really like Math Rock ! |
I really want to consolidate the reasons for all of my artistic addictions in written form, I think it would be dually fun and therapeutic. Frankly, it helps me come to terms with my predilection for a maniacal consumption of media and my terminally online habits. Eh ... I should probably sort that out, yes ?
Speaking of which, I think I may make a follow-up to this blog with my musical influences. Yes, I know, I do not make music - although, I have always yearned to do an operatic noise music performance-art project in the future. Decisively, this will not be coming into fruition in the short-term, as I am already struggling to tie up the loose ends on a lot of my other extra-curricular Art projects as well as my school work.
Eek, I am starting Year 13 in 3-and-a-half weeks, I am a bit nervous !
Anyways, yes ! I would like to sequentially follow this blog post up with Musicians and Musical Acts alike, whose visuals and sonics influence my respective works. Expect a lot of Power Electronics, Extratone and Splittercore ... I will try and diversify my quota of "10". So many genres to choose from ... lots of guttural electronica do not worry about it ! Noise Rock too, most likely. It would be a crime if I did not mention Decolonise Your Mind Society .. haha. Ah, what about "World Music" and "New Age" stuff ooh ?
Shall we move onto influence number two ?
Let me interject and say these are not in any specific hierarchy of prominence nor influence, these Artists are all equally fundamental to my development as an Artist and a young lady. I enjoy all of their works equally.
2. Xia Chengan
Chengan Xia's work is a menagerie of visual propaganda, suffocating neons, cluttered typography and repetitive portraits. It is perfectly lowbrow, satirical, nostalgic and equally emotional. He self-describes his work as "Chinese contemporary maximalist". Well, looking at his work who could deny that description ?
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Buy the Case, Return the Case |
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With silver, With gold, Bridal sedan chair to the door … |
I think that this article from De : Formal offers a far better description of his own work than I could ever give :
"Chengan Xia is a visual artist and graphic designer based in Chicago and Shanghai. By utilizing printed matter, photography, video, and installation, his work celebrates the “trash aesthetics” born from Chinese low cultural phenomena. With the methodology of appropriation, collage, and building ironic narrative, his work critiques the fetishism manifested in such culture, which involves broader discussion of consumerism, technology, tradition, and politics. He received his MFA in visual communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago."
Apart from one Godfather, I have no cultural affinities to China whatsoever. However, what created a stark impression on me as a young Artist observing Chengan Xia's work was his commitment and trust in the lowbrow. Often, I feel as if work which is highly saturated, kitschy or playful in nature is written off as "ironic" or "post-ironic". Dismaying artists from being confident in their commentary.
Whilst a small, alluring component of Maximalism is irony, I beg the question : Why is colour never treated with legitimacy ? Which emotions are conceptualised to be of importance in Art ? Who is the voice answering these aforementioned questions ? I think you are still allowed to be proud in work which is perceived to be "ironic" or "lowbrow".
His work does not exploitatively mock nor appropriate Chinese characteristics, but honours them with a pinch of facetious affection. Very admirable.
Let me show you some more works from Chengan's prolific studio practice, if you click on these images you will be taken to his website, explaining these specific works :
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Artificial Charisma … |
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A carefree, malleable spirit should always be persistent in your artworks. Overt attachment to material objects and the fear of ruining your own work will hold everything back, I assure you ! Besmirch everything with an experimental "more is more" process ! Make risk ritualistic !
Surprise, surprise. I tend to unashamedly rip off the man's colour schemes for my abstract works. I love the punches of neon green, and prioritisation of glitchy warm tones. Red and yellow especially.
In all earnestness, I feel as if we are both preoccupied with our own explicit subject matter - I do not think I will be tackling Chinese social phenomenons anytime in my artwork. I am not well-versed enough in Chinese aesthetics for that, nor do I have any strong cultural ties to the country.
However, the universality of concepts such as nostalgia, statehood, lowbrow culture are equally responsive and engaging. These concepts are indeed ones which I tackle in my own artworks. I can hear the cringey musings on dual identity from the Filipino-English perspective from a mile away .. Eek !
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I love the universality of the human experience ! |
Finally, how could I forget ? Or well ... that might not be the right wording. How could I not explicitly mention ? Have you seen Chengan's website ? It is arguably where I pull most of my visual cues from, so much colour ... so much tacky font. It is superb ! Perfectly complimenting his work.
I have always emphasised in conversation the importance of a curated, personal space for artworks to take refuge in - this manipulation of subterranean space ( or in Chengan's case cyberspace ) is integral in fully contextualising your artwork and resolving its meaning. This is what allures me to multi-medium installation works. I am not fond of a white wall gallery myself, or paintings existing as a sole performance without any thought given to its habitat. These two narratives for Art are tolerable, but not ideal.
Ah ... this blog is going to be extremely long. We are approximately a fifth through, give or take, it is okay - we need to keep going ! Finally, I have the time to blog and this summer might be the penultimate period in which I will be able to blog regularly before the onslaught of university applications and A-levels. Come on ! Motivation please strike me into a volatile bliss of servitude ! Let me be a servant to writing !
I have discussed a fashionable influence of mine and a more "Visual Art" influence in succession. Well ... what if fashion and installation was explicitly merged ... hehe ?
A strong, emerging interest in soft sculpture and wearable art has ruptured my insides, ( that is such horrible wording ) and has compelled me to create large-scale sculptures combining textiles, acrylic paint and general craft. Tango's work has been extremely beneficiary and informative to my shift to sculptural paintings with a secondary motif of textiles. I think her work is utterly joyful.
These are some of my favourite artworks of hers :
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"Chromosomes" ... |
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"Pistil - X Chromosome" ... |
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"Rainbow Rainforest" for "Art Magic : Remnant" ... |
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Hiromi Tango, ah what is there to say ! So much ! I feel as if her influence on my artworks are slightly more covert ? Or maybe I am a delusional girl, perhaps it is wildly obvious I am a fan of hers. Anyways let me present your with an extract from the "Bio' section her website :
"Hiromi Tango is an established interdisciplinary artist, based in the Bundjalung Country, Northern New South Wales, Australia. Her practice intersects with art, health, and neuroscience, exploring universal themes of humanity, sustainability, and nature. For nearly two decades, Tango has focused on the intersection between art and mental health. Drawing on her own experiences of anxiety, her installations and performances traverse the embodied self, the emotional terrain of our relationships with others, and the healing possibilities of art. She has collaborated with numerous scientists, health professionals and research institutions, exploring how various aspects of the art-making process can contribute to positive mental wellbeing."
She is also really beautiful, this is where my teenage ,"fangirl" sensibilities infest the blog post but seriously, she has such a well-distinguished appearance ! I would say "goals" if I wanted to go all-in with jejune colloquialisms but I won't. Well, I technically I already said it ... whoops. TLDR : I love her look !
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I think her name is one of the first which springs to mind when I think of an "interdisciplinary artist", she has done everything ! Well, almost everything - it would be hard for an artist to engage critically with every single medium in the world. This gives me a tinge of existential dread to say the last, imagine all the machinery you will never be able to work with, al the paints you will never touch, the new innovation in Projective Art which you will never get to see ? Death salience is not the best prerogative to act upon when producing work, but our time on this Earth is indeed finite ... so do what you can, you know ?
Anyways, here are some more artworks from Tango which I profusely enjoy :
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"Pistil - X Chromosome"  "Dynamic Emotions"... |
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"Traces-Blue" ... |
Fantastic artist. No more words needed.
4. Simon Sparrow
In all earnestness, I could have input a wide range of Outsider Artists into this blog. Outsider Art is one of my longest-standing inspirations and motivations to keep creating work, there is something dually powerful and elusive about the movement and its recipients. I love Art when it is unassuming. Outsider Artists tend to have prolific portfolio and extremely large pieces.
I would like to give an honourable mention to Ionel Talpazan : although as I feel as if our work does not have much in common, I love his work and he is one of my favourite artists.
Who doesn't love a spaceship ? How about 50 spaceships ? 100 ?
"Simon was a self-taught artist known for his intricately detailed mixed media assemblages. He was born in West Africa in 1925. At the age of two his family moved to North Carolina where he was raised on a Cherokee reservation. After living in Philadelphia and New York and serving in the army (among other jobs), he eventually settled in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1970s. Sparrow became a well-known street preacher and artist in Madison."
"His spiritual beliefs crossed over into his artwork. With inspiration from what he called “spirit”, Sparrow used discarded materials to create his mosaic-like art, including jewelry, plastic figurines and toys, beads, pine cones, glitter, and other unconventional art materials. He even decorated his entire car in glitter and found objects."
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Adoration. This is the word which assumes prevalence in my mind when I think of found object sculpture. I love the bric-a-brac sensibility of taking something which is so seemingly pedestrian and decorating it to its maximum potential. I do believe in decoration ! It is almost as if I built an entire brand on embellishments. Whoops ! My jubilant pre-occupation with Sparrow's work is mostly down to the beadwork element of his collages - beadwork has always been a consistent factor in all of my objects, even when I was a younger artist. Persistently, I am enamoured by Simon Sparrow's choice of objects and dynamic compositions - I wish to develop that complexity in my physical artworks and digital, abstract artworks. Eurgh, I am brimming with ideas ! Now I need to act upon them.
Let me show you more of Simon Sparrow's work, here are more of my favourite pieces. Although to be completely honest, I could just paste all of Sparrow's artworks into this blog post. Such inspiring work with a marvellous, spiritual incentive. The intricacy of his collages is utterly ... awesome. I am using awesome in its appropriate sense, one day I will accumulate enough objects to make another large soft sculpture. I am short on supplies at the moment ...
Sparrow's work is bold, exclamative and ritualistic. There is an element of the scared in his work that is rife within other Outsider Artists' narratives. So many Outsider Artists have this mystical connection to some sort of deity, many feel Asia it is their spiritual vocation or an act of pilgrimage to commit themselves to outlandish, countercultural artworks. I wonder how this incentive materialises, and the motivations for various people to create work ? I would say I indulge in periods of delirious artistic bedlam : I have definitely locked myself in a room to work on my crafts on a number of occasions ...
However, when you take a look at some Outsider Artists it is on another stratosphere of devotion. Famous Outsider Artists' works like,
"Palais Idéal by Ferdinand Cheval :
I would love to spend 33 years of my life building my own palace ...
Or the adoring "Chauvin Sculpture Garden" by Kenny Hill :
Such wonderfully crafted angels ...
There is an incontrovertible resoluteness to Outsider Artist, which almost feels dually scared and inhuman. I dislike the semantics of the latter word though - "inhuman". Dedication to a craft, hard work, persistence and divine inspiration should all be acomodated for under the public perception of a "normal human experience". I think the modern conceptions of the ideal man are rather sterile, monotonous and bland. I see nothing wrong with Outsider Artists in the slightest, it makes me tragically upset that they are "othered" and marginalised in the Art World.
Simon Sparrow and Outsider Artists alike have left an indelible mark on my artwork, I thank them extravagantly.
Boom ! Let us move onto my fifth influence. This is where I take a momentary 5 minute break from the screen and go and get some milk and a banana. I ate quite a few plums today actually, from the garden - they were super sweet, very tasty !
Okay let us get on, go, go, go, go !
5. "Ndaku Ya Life Is Beautiful"
or "Ndaku la vie est belle", if you speak French.
The indescribable Congolese Art Collective which personify fun and energetic vigour. Performance Art paradise !
I am certain this is a universal experience, do you ever look at someone's artwork and you wish,
"Gosh, that is an incredible idea ! I would have loved to make that .. I feel strangely motivated to make work informed by what I just consumed ?"
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Patrick Kitete’s "Flip-Flop Man" ... |
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Kitete’s "Mirror Man" ... |
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Bayoka’s "Cork Warrior" Man ... Ndaku ( I am going to use this as an abbreviation of "Ndaku Ya Life Is Beautiful" as that is rather wordy ) fills me to the brim with deep-coloured inventiveness. A countercultural, performance sect with activistic intent ? Sign me up ! Repeatedly, I find myself reverting back to articles written about Ndaku and images of their artwork. Their story is utterly inspiring, and very punk ! |
Amazingly as well, they have so many well-written articles about them, I am so glad they have been granted substantial exposure, but they deserve a lot more. The structures they compose with literal junk are ... ugh let me just input a quote ! I feel such scintillating glee when I think about their work.
I like to input quotes from articles about the artists I mention, as I am not prideful enough to believe that I am the sole progenitor of all artistic wisdom, there are so many people who are much more well-spoke than I am ! It id important to give secondary opinions to the art I analyse, even though I do like my own opinions, very much so ... hehe.
"It started as a countercultural art movement in 2001."
"After years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kinshasa—following teachers’ advice on creating work with “proper” materials, such as resin and plaster of paris—some students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to do something different. They created art with what was in their immediate environment, including tires, exhaust pipes, foam, plastic bottles, antennas, tins that had held milk or paint, feathers, CDs, rubber slippers, and other discarded items."
"This work, the artists believed, felt familiar to a Congolese audience and spoke to a particularly egregious aspect of Congolese life: waste."
Ndaku is led by Eddy Ekete, a Kinshasha-born artist and social activist. The proximity humans have to objects, and how we interact and pre-dispose ourselves to forming protective relationships with material is exceptionally interesting. Ndaku as a collective effectively broke the barrier between the materials and the creator, by welding wearable sculptural art. An absolute dream. Here, let me show you some more photos,
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I got this image from "The Times" which requires subscription so I could access the name of the member of Ndaku who made this costume, which is a shame ... |
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Shaka Fumu Kabaka’s toothpaste suit symbolises viruses. |
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"Waste foisted on the country by hyper-consumerist nations. Waste triggered by the endless extraction of resources from the DRC’s earth, or the rapacious collection of the same above land."
Once again, I am quoting the National Geographic article. Because I am your favourite prismatic, South-East Asian, kitschy, hardstyle sleazoid ( not really a sleaze I just enjoy the word ) ... you can click on this body of text to be taken to the article again. Ugh, talk about a tech-savvy girl genius ! I got you.
I solemnly expressed quite some time ago in this blog post that I am running short on supplies for sculptures. Currently, I am working on a lot of acrylic paintings but now upon expressing my adoration for "Ndaku Ya Life Is Beautiful" - what materials and objects have I ignore in my house, on the prejudiced notion that they are not "beautiful" nor "useful". Art is inherently transformative, I suppose I should go out and look for items which I turn a blind eye too ... there is too much stuff in the world, I may as well use it for something positive.
In my head, I am an amazing professor with tenure ... in my head.
6. Chila Kumari Singh Burman
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I would consider myself a Pop Artist in many regards. I think the homogenisation of Art consumption via Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Flickr ( I sound so old ), etc. through the centralised platform that is the Web makes it so that everything almost seems like Pop Art, everyone seems a bit clique-y and mass-culture obsessed. But it is not a dirty word, nor is it an insult. I genuinely love Pop Art !
Personally, I am not down with Rauschenberg nor Warhol. Or Jasper Johns. They are not my favourite Pop Artists, oh and I am not fond of Lichtenstein. I prefer Contemporary, Pop Artists like Lucia Hierro and Ketna Patel, and of course - Chila Kumari Singh Burman.
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"Band of Gold 2" ... |
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Details of "Dirty Bindi Girl" ... |
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"Asian Medicine in the West" ... |
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Not to be a "fangirl" ( I am a massive "fangirl ) as well, but her accent is amazing too !
Here is her interview with the Tate Modern, she is truly wonderful , you can always access videos on YouTube :
"Since the mid-1980s I have been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film. In my more recent works, this theme has taken on a new power and vibrancy. I am currently making a new body of work to draw all of these together and to develop the ideas and images contained in the new cultural contexts of national and international politics in the twenty-first century."
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"The Garden" extra shot ... |
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"The Garden" ... |
"Artistic duo Kalos&Klio utilizes a unique technique to produce complicated compositions which crush the real world into a chaos of the most extreme objects possible. The hybrid-Matrix world of Kalos&Klio is both immaterial because it originates from cyberspace and material because it comes into fruition as a luxury impression on the most precious materials. The Matrix of Kalos&Klio is ever expanding and as it enlarges it appears to take on a consciousness of its own. Kalos&Klio post-psychedelic works refers to our world as a melting pot that chews everything, from architectural elements, body parts, and artificial constructions. The Matrix extends"...
I discovered them when I was a lot younger, at about 14 years old give or take - via a Pinterest deep-dive. A message I would give to my former self would be to stop doom-scrolling on Pinterest in the hopes that any artistic motivation would fantastically hit you, but I digress. Often, I tend to not have many long-standing influences outside of subculture. Strangely though, I find my aesthetic sensibilities are often wildly coloured by this duos work ...
Due to the nature of my personal tastes transmuting and the influence of having a studio space courtesy of my Secondary school, I have been making more "physical artworks" as of recently. However, I still have such a strong affinity for digital art, and I love making it. I am extremely happy that I have been able to incorporate digital textures into my physical artworks. Those two beloved "M's" - multi-medium. Ahh .. how wonderful ! The only problem is with my large-scale, multi-medium artworks is that they are admittedly resource heavy ... and sometimes that is a a lot of handiwork ! I do not always want chipped fingernails, hot glue burns, and flakey hands.
Kalos&Klio have the predominant influence on my abstract works, unlike them I am not particularly intrigued in compositing realistic textures ( with overt references to specific icons in pop culture ) into something incoherent and chaotic, I am more concerned with skeuomorphic textures and more abstract shapes - the objects in their artworks are undeniably more discernible. Their work is fantastic ! Here, let me show a few more photos, they always make rugs as well, which is a medium I never considered. Let me completely honest, I am not a fan of rugs myself - but I appreciate the craftsmanship.
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"War Carousel" ... |
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"Moooooore" ... |
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"Different is Not a Bad Thing" ... |
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"Happy Shizocouple" ... |
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"Barred in the Wilderness" ... |
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"12:50" ... |
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This was the first photo I had seen of Brian Chippendale, this is where my pool of knowledge started to expand in terms of Lightning Bolt, Fort Thunder, Forcefield, Black Pus etc. |
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One of my favourite images, of all time ! |
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The knitted costumes strike back ! |
