bring to light

about us.

LEE.shuhui
a young songbird who enjoys photography and sketching
when she's free (sometimes when she's not, too)
her favourite subject matters are frogs, anime characters
and everything else under the sun.

LIM.xinying
an active sportswoman in the school basketball team
who likes kobe bryant, sketching and, basketball
she stands tall at 1.74m, but is a really gentle person.

TEO.beilin
a french horn player in the school band who enjoys music,
photography and surfing the net.
recently, she has acquired a new habit of reading stories online,
and hopefully she keeps at it.

ZHAO.yiyuan
a guzheng player in the school guzheng ensemble,
who loves all the random things under the sun,
she especially loves computer graphics, and is good at drawing them.

Our exhibition CONCEPT
We chose this theme as we find light intriguing to work with; light can be expressed in many different ways, and we thought it would be interesting to experiment with how light can be portrayed. Even though light can signify hope, it can also be used to show emotions, such as happiness, ranging to the portrayal of dangerous things such as the light emitted from a fire or an explosion. A simple Light could mean anything under the word, such as lightweight, light feelings, or literally light rays. This would give us more freedom to explore the concept, and our works would therefore have a larger sense of creativity. We draped the board with cloth as we all decided that leaving the board black as it was would be a little plain. To suit the theme Light, we used white cloth with translucent purple so that the board would not give off a dull or heavy colour and would suit the theme better. As we came up with works suited for the theme, we truly had to stretch our minds as to what light could mean. In conclusion, preparing for this exhibition opened windows in our understanding of the portrayal of light.

entries.

The Hand
Lee Shu Hui
Charcoal sketch
2009

This artwork depicts a statue of a hand, clenching on to a cylindrical object, sitting on a plinth. The light source is coming from the top left hand corner of the artwork. The shadows are elongated. The statue of the hand is realistic.

The shadows have been made especially dark to contrast with the lit parts of the hand and the plinth. The pencil strokes are a mixture of rough and smooth, as the strokes for the background, which was done using charcoal, are somewhat rough, but the shadows, done using a mix of charcoal and pencils, are smooth. The rough background creates a rough, misty feel over the subject matter. Composition is balanced, as the subject matter is situated toward the centre of the picture.

Through this artwork, the artist might be trying to show that the things which we are attached to and cling on to are made beautiful in our own eyes, from our own perspectives, as shown from the light falling upon the cylindrical object, which could signify the things we are attached to. The artist might also be trying to say that we should truly treasure what we already have, as it is of much worth to us, as shown from the clenching of the hand over the cylindrical object, which could show the clinging on of the things which we already have. This artwork is related to the exhibition theme of "Light", as the artist portrays the hand literally bathed in light. This artwork also has a symbolic meaning, that we should always treasure what we have, and also showing our unwillingness to let go of the want for materialistic things, which in our eyes may be beautiful and hard to let go of.

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posted at 2:29 PM, 20100904

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