Assessment - A body of Nyonya Works

labels

my labels were printed on muse kaiser paper before it went dead.
i had them cut with scissors before i boarded the mrt and had them
stuffed in my bag, so they ended up crumpled before i had them fixed
on the walls. bah!

Being Nyonya Series
7 A3 digital prints on prepared
watercolour paper

these digital prints are about 1/8 the original size,
even smaller than the second body of works
impact has been reduced by a lot!

Being Nyonya : The Modern Nyonya, a self-portrait
pen, chinese ink, coloured pencil, acrylic on
coffee-stained watercolour paper

the last self portrait with my blappy separates
the two final body of works
Being Nyonya: Nyonya Surfaces Series
7 Screen-Prints, Cine Colle on Coloured Paper
46 x 66 cmi call this piece the sanitary pad piece because it just
reminds me of laurier or whisper sanitary pad packaging. oh,
i'm just kidding. anyway this was the only piece with pop ups.

A Body of Nyonya studies


Nyonya Surfaces, a rejected study
Screen-print on Paper, cine colle on Canvas


'Nyonya' Family Portraits ( a study)
screen-print/ pen, ink, acylic on ornamental wooden plaque

i had forgotten to put in two more experiments
on those boards. . . it always happens every year!

Baba Boy Riding the British Thoroughbred (study)
pen, chinese ink, coffee on found paper
A4

kebaya-inspired Nyonya wallpapers
screen-prints on coffee-stained watercolour paper/coloured paper
A2


The Unforgotten
(test-prints)
screen-print on newsprint/coloured paper

i call it the unforgotten because i realised that
many find that test-prints are not as important as
the final, and often throw them away because
when they are printed on newsprints, the prints
are of no value.
for me, i find that everything i create is of equal
importance, and to throw them away is just disrespectful.
i keep my test prints, and i've spent about 9 hours tearing
them into size in order to keep them in proper conditions.



the negatives
oiled printed paper
various sizes



Table of Miscellany
i placed these tables opposite the body of nyonya studies
and they contain photo albums of my references,
sketchbooks, random drawings, more test-pints...