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.

Wired: Apple
Teo Bei Lin
Wire with Solder and Super Glue
2010

This is a sculpture of an apple. ITs main shape is built out of wire of varying thickness, the thicker ones as the "skeletal structure" and the thinner ones are wound around them to create a more compact feeling. There is a piece of leaf on top of the main shape created the same way.

With the apple representing the food we eat, the use of wire suggests that the food we eat is largely artificial and man-made, just like wire. The sculpture is modelled closely after a real apple to show that the food we eat, which contains a lot of artificial flavourings and colourings, looks delicious but is in fact, grown with artificial methods.

Therefore, we should pay close attention to the kind of food we consume and be more aware of the threats of artificial flavourings, colourings and the use of chemical during farming to our health.

Labels: beilin

posted at 9:40 AM, 20100905

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