gw manis: Artwork

The final round of artwork! Don't forget, you can still attend Fotanian this coming Saturday and Sunday!

DL and I were super impressed by this ink painting. I mean, they're horses rendered in simple strokes! This is truly modern Chinese painting.

Oh, I used to build houses and stuff out of popsicle sticks...I miss that.

I thought this series was rather cute. An homage to the master Hayao Miyazaki.

Performance art.

Mm, I love men in suits.

Alright, I took this picture because of that little kid in the peacoat just staring at something. Look at how fascinated he is, he's not even looking at the artists. What could he be looking at??

Yes, the little dude was staring at a pork chop! I don't know why, but this was just so funny to me.

This dude is famous for mocking and parodying Chow Chun Fai's work (he's the dude with the nice studio who does paintings of Hong Kong movie scenes). I like his work because he's so funny. Here he is playing around with Chow Chun Fai's taxi fetish.

And here he is doing a pirate version of Chow Chun Fai's style. DL told me that he deliberately watches pirated copies so that it truly looks pirated, with the blurry and pixelated quality, etc.

Lace and...? Mattress foam?

For a second, I thought the water was real, but it's resin. That poor little turtle! You know, I'm obsessed with turtle welfare because of guilt. When we were kids, we released our turtles into the wild (ie. our backyard) where they were promptly eaten by rats.

These dudes performed at the studio.

A fashion design studio opened, too! Good luck, kids!!

Christmas tree.

Randomly, a museum devoted to antique tea ware. It was so crowded!

And possibly the best artist of the day, Wilson Shieh's work. Love his stuff, very thoughtful and witty but not pretentious.

Yikes, I didn't realize how many pictures I took, so I'll have to do one more entry after this. Generally speaking, the artists ranged from mediocre to very talented. I think a lot of them had great ideas but didn't have the resources to execute them well.

Also, one of the things I learned as I grew up is that anyone can have a clever or witty idea, but it's how to expand it into a theme and universalize it that separates you from the rest. Of course, here I am expounding on art when I don't even dare call myself an artist. I feel comfortable calling myself a goldsmith because I'm official, but I would say I illustrate and write, rather than call myself an illustrator or writer, even though I've been paid for those two types of work, too.

Anyway, that's just me being self-conscious. Remember, you can still go to the Fotanian next weekend. It's just an MTR ride to Shatin Station and then the 60K minibus to the main building or a ride to Fotan Station, exit A and then a 10-minute walk to the main building.

Now, the art. Apparently, this series of work was about abuse. Saw it last year, actually.

I photographed this mostly because the painting on the lower right looks like an ex-boyfriend, haha. It's funny how you never think of someone and then things like this pop up.

The artist whose work is in the following pictures also gave me a cookie. What a sweet kid! I ended up buying a packet of cookies from him, it's a business he and his friend are running. You can find them on Facebook here.