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Grade 12 Anthropomorphism:
Animal symbolism
Kindred Horses and zebras are astonishingly similar animals. The primary distinction between them is their color. The similarity between these two animals inspired the piece. The piece depicts how people sometimes alter themselves to fit in with society, creating another version of themselves and questioning which version is their true self. Like the zebra, the horse is dressed as a mime, complete with white and black makeup and a striped black and white shirt.
Thanutchai (Act) Chaisupat
Dream and Death The piece is my interpretation of a dream in which I reincarnated as a different person. Inspired by Salvador Dali, an explorer of subconscious imagery, the piece employs pictographs to describe dreams through the use of a symbolic object and an animal resembling Dali's work figure. The elements in this image correspond to my unconscious mind while dreaming. The whale, emblazoned with the cross call on its body, represents death and rebirth in the dream until the end.
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Facade Inspired by body language that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. The piece depicts two apes with their mouths turned up and their front teeth visible. A smile is a type of facial expression that represents pleasure or amusement in humans. When animals are afraid, threatened, or stressed, they will make this expression, which exposes the teeth in the same way that a smile does. The piece represents how good deeds can be interpreted in a negative light.
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Heremita Contrasting between hermit behavior and materialism. The piece is inspired by the behavior of the hermit crab and a fashion magazine. To safeguard their fragile body, hermit crabs must occupy shells. Hermit crabs must use shelters or risk being defenseless. Extreme behavioral shifts in human evolution, like the hermit crab, lead us towards the lifestyle of materialism. Humans often push the extremes to reach for what we yearn for. Like the crab, humans use clothing as a protective shell.
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Representation of Human and Nature
Cycle of life
Prapasirikul (Amy) Siriprawatkul
Life harmony This painting is inspired by my personal belief that humans and nature are interlinked. I wanted the viewer to reflect on the importance of nature as a provider of everything people need to survive and enjoy life. The strong ruptured skull means death. Nature is shown as flowers, vulnerable and frail.
Four Seasons Four Seasons conveys the ideas of the natural connections between water, earth, forest, and wind. These four elements are connected by spiral flower petals to show how nature is strongly linked to these four elements and humans. Different tones of turquoise, brown, green, and blue depict the essence of each element. Petals are multicolor to represent a connection of all elements in a timeless, infinite way.
Be Born Be Born is the way of expressing the idea of life as a new beginning. The baby is in the mother's womb as a way to represent a world of new opportunities. Butterflies symbolizing long life are witnessing how the baby will be born. The vines are intertwined with the umbilical cord to represent the connection between humankind and nature.
In the artwork, “The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein, Vanitas is portrayed by the elongated skull on the floor to symbolize mortality, perhaps tracing back to The Black Death in the 1340s.
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Grab It Grab It is a sculpture that conveys the idea of transformation. Humans and nature are constantly transforming into new phases. This sculpture of a hand reaching out of the plate surrounded by several stones represents the magical power of change that lies on the human hand. The plate, as an object that people use daily, represents an offering in the same way nature offers humans its resources. Stones represent the earth, humans' main provider.
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Human exploration discovery
and the passage of time Tiradit (Bu-bup) Derojanawong
From the moon An astronaut stands on the moon as he stares back at Earth. This artwork shows the sense of achievement that is the result of incessant struggles. This artwork is inspired by the images of the moon landing as it shows a step forward in human exploration. The moon that the astronaut is standing on symbolizes new heights that have been reached whilst the Earth he looks back at symbolizes the beginning of the journey. The beauty of the Earth mirrors how past reminiscent memories can be beautiful.
Elysian For this piece, I found inspiration researching plant ecosystems. I found the dynamics of ecosystems had mirrored different ways people live. Uninterrupted, nature grows with chaotic beauty: trees tower, and flowers bloom. The bubbles represent the various lenses through which life is seen or experienced. For instance, Life can be considered a fight, where trees constantly fight for resources and sunlight. Life can also be a search for harmony. The exchange of resources ceases at equilibrium.
Les Montagnes (The Mountains) A man glows brightly in the dimly-lit landscapes. Surrounded by hills and mountains, he trudges. The artwork is inspired by paintings of Caspar David Friedrich’s. This painting symbolizes how people brought light to the world and the melancholic beauty of nature. The hills symbolize the struggles we humans must overcome. The darkness also symbolizes how nature facilitates nothing. The darkness shows that we must overcome the challenges ourselves as there is no exterior assistance from nature.
Life and Death Color glitters and emanates from a glass tree sat atop two hills teeming with flora. At the hill’s foundation stands a gravestone. Inspired by a rainbow I saw in the dark cloudy skies before a storm. I am reminded of the phrase “The calm before the storm”. The rainbow represents hope, peace, and equality which grow as the tree does, whereas the gravestone symbolizes death and the passage of time. I found this meaningful as it showed the ephemeral nature of beauty and the inevitability of time.
Ascension After survival comes ascension. When life transcends the goal of survival it may seek distinction through elevation. Life can trample over nature, to use it as a stairway to an objective. Ambitions and aspirations of supremacy, aided by nature’s willingness to proffer, at nature’s expense. Ever more, nature’s beauty is meaningfully exhibited and outshines the darkness from the sins of life. 23 21 3 CONCORDIAN IMPACT - ISSUE 34
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Château sur la Montagne (Castle on the Mountain) I was inspired by the beauty of medieval structures in rural landscapes. This piece shows a castle that rests upon the top of a mountain sitting in isolation in the midst of the green natural landscape. I used a combination of the techniques of digital 3d modeling and matte painting to create this piece with the castle being the magnificent Mont Saint Michel in France. The castle represents mankind. Majestic but insignificant to nature. We may be on top, but inferior to nature’s vast expansion.
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Anthropocene
harmony between humankind and nature Fiona Chen
Dancing Leaf This piece is a consolidation of natural and artificial elements. The addition of wires allows momentum motions, symbolizing wind. Wind embodies humans' spirit, freedom, and existence and all living creatures. Gold epitomizes sunlight and natural mineral. Likewise, insects tend to lay their eggs on leaves, so in that case, it also symbolizes ‘nature is humans and living organisms’ nursery.’ Nurturing new life, which eventually will come to an end. The cutout leaves intersect to form the woven effect as for how nature and humans are tied together.
The tunnel of ‘life.’ This installation is a tunnel constructed by a mirror panel and butterfly tunnels. The audience will become a part of the installation by crawling through the tunnel, similar to a caterpillar. The butterflies symbolize how we envision our growth and the bright idea of how pretty and free we will be once we ‘grow up, which is when the audience finishes with crawling and can finally stand up and walk around freely. CONCORDIAN IMPACT - ISSUE 33
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Songbirds and Pomegranates This piece symbolizes Chinese auspiciousness. The pomegranate in Chinese culture symbolizes fertility, prosperity, and turning tragedy into happiness. Songbirds symbolize upcoming Spring, honesty, and fertility. Zheng Ling Ling inspires this piece. The mix-mediums and fractured sections represent diversified interpretations, which the traditional art ultimately illustrates who I am. Thus, the mixed medium showcased the variety of my cultural backgrounds.
Ephemeral This piece indicates the harmony between humanity and nature. The perfect square does not exist in nature; the diversity of whites that provided unique dimensions and texture created the “floating illusion” inspired by Malevich. The ceramic pieces were positioned based on the Fibonacci Spiral, which complemented the art of natural material and the only golden work based on the golden ratio. This piece is made out of three mediums: oil paint, acrylic, and two types of white clays.
They said… This installation piece will be completed with hung images of individuals holding a sign with their insecurities written on them. The intention behind this piece is to advocate for body positivity. As the audience walks through the small room of mirrors, they will see their reflections and make them a part of the exhibition. The audience will have to dodge the hanging images while walking through the piece, symbolizing that we must step aside and acknowledge diversity.
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Representation of
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Flourishing chaos Inspired by Mia Pearlman’s “Clouded house” and Poonyawee Iamsakul’s “Bride”, the flourishing chaos is a reflective piece of one’s thoughts through depression. The movements are beautiful chaos without our minds. The black roses symbolize thoughts and death. The waves symbolize thoughts flowing between ideas. Similar to the composition of flowers, one sits in the corner to overthinking, it’s big enough to devour one’s thought, thus possibly taking over one’s self and finally losing one’s control.
Time to unfold Mix medium
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Time to unfold Inspired by Helen Wells' "Tropical Love," I drew this piece featuring repetition, rhythm, and organic forms. I was fascinated by her use of organic lines and mesmerized by her beauty. I decided to mimic her drawing techniques, enhanced with dead flowers, leaves falling apart, and elements of the fallen fashion industry to symbolize the beauty in death and how life (nature) unfolds itself within a deadline set, thus showing the mixture of beauty in nature after a catastrophe.
Moments Inspired by Piet Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie”. Similar to the artist’s visual inspiration of roads and the color scheme, I mimicked it by using duct tape, a medium used to restrict one’s communication or vision. I incorporated my own culture by writing poetry in Thai and Chinese, with meanings of restriction and death alongside 3 faces that are supposed to be restricted but in my piece, they are all fully visible, unlike the covered truth of the unforeseen.
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Desolate Void Inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night over the Rhone, an attempt to appropriate the color scheme of the painting in a way to evoke "dynamic rhythm". The calm night sky on glass empathizes with how Van Gogh and the audience would look at the night sky. The deep void in memes of a loved one who has passed away. Thus, the night sky reflects loneliness and entropy. However, the question of "why would one wish to live, to embrace, and to give affection" is one for oneself to answer.
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Double cultural identity
Thai and French Jade Vipaporn Seyen
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Two Perspectives Inspired by J.A.C. Bezer, with the median being colored pencil chalk and patterns. This artwork focuses on the context of double cultural identity. Furthermore, this aims to reflect me based on my cultural background through different perspectives. I would like to incorporate a richness of different textures and colors into my artwork. The background of this artwork represents my Thai culture, whereas the overall women and the clothing present my French culture.
Friction in comfort zone The girl embracing herself is meant to represent my own feelings and how I feel trapped between two cultures. When I describe myself as half, I feel more at ease and comfortable with myself. However, I still feel compelled to choose between my two nationalities. The red circle symbolizes Thai, the blue circle represents French, and the purple tint in the middle represents me. The facial expression conveys an emptiness while being tranquil in an attempt to embrace myself more fully.
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Clothes redefine borders between
genders
Yanagrich (M.Jr) Meekhanthong Natural Beauty This piece symbolizes the nature of beauty and how it represents the cycle of the human aesthetics. This piece is inspired by the piece “Le Déjeuner en fourrure” by Méret Oppenheim. The inspiration behind this is the unpredictability of having these 2 elements of women's lingerie and rabbit fur combined together as one. With that in mind this challenges the perception of what is acceptable in society and how this has influenced the borders of what is considered “art”.
You destroyed me! This is a piece to symbolize ancient beauty and the appreciation of Greek and Egyptian art. The uneven texture would be a representation of the sensual aspect of liquid and the flow of the woman's silhouette. This is a minimalistic modern piece, mimicking the shape of a woman. The piece would not have much detail about the area so there could be room for interpretation. The extreme exaggeration of the human body will represent the ideal beauty of the present times with the increase in social pressure.
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Who? What? When? Where? Releasing the potential of the unconscious mind with interesting expressions of surrealist creativity. This piece shows the weird surrealist placement of objects creating juxtaposition. Creating a fantasy piece showing a chaotic messed up world. Inspired by Luke Robson in which the character desires to relocate to this messed up world. I aim to show that people want what they can't have and try to do anything to receive it. Individuals get jealous of each other.
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anxiety around us in relation to
Change and time
Voranan (Momae) Adhiphandhuamphai
Judgement Judgement’s style is inspired by traditional Chinese paintings and contemporary artist, James Jean. The subject matter of this piece involves human internal conflict between rights and wrongs. The gaze creates a quiet discomfort portraying the silent fight of the person’s id, ego and superego.
Within the Crowds Within the Crowds is inspired by Hong Kong cinematographer Wong Kar-Wai. This series of street photography explores the feeling of the physical detachment of human senses from the surrounding cultural-urban landscape. A sense of loneliness pervades the atmosphere even when the buzzing streets of Chinatown are spirited. Reflecting on a veiled distance that has been created by rapid urban changes affecting the facade of Thai-Sino culture. Desolation.
Absence Quietness is said to be peaceful. Inspired by Superflat style and James Jean’s fantastical symbolism and composition, Absence is about the discomforting silence of mental paralysis experienced during sleep. Thanatos and Hypnos are symbols of gentle destruction awaiting control similar to self-destructive thoughts. The varied pacing of brushstrokes and illogical scaling of objects mimics a dreamlike state of the sleeper creating an enigmatic distortion illusion of personal truths.
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Writhe The hanging sculpture depicts the inescapability of our choice that leads to our mind and body being overworked. Weak threads bound together at great magnitude tie us to our choices. The strings symbolize the ignored self-destructive actions that turn into an unforeseen danger to our future selves, restraining us from ever being free from consequences.
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Our life has been painted over Tanjuta (Nae Nae) Wattanapongwanich
Wonderland As we grow older, we prefer to build our own Wonderland to escape the current world, which is full of challenging experiences of "development" and "self-discovery." Wonderland allows us to enter a new stage in our lives with new opportunities. Spending a significant amount of one's life imagining and having paranormal experiences causes people to gradually sink into a fantasy and lose the ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Imagination influences our expectations and hopes, as well as our behaviors.
Invention of Storms To live, we must dominate nature, but we must also appreciate nature's enormous force and discover ways to use it to our advantage. We might be astonished and inspired by the beautiful sight from our safe sanctuary indoors. Our resilience will find a way for us to live and learn from the experience. To use what we've learned and become better. Wassily Kandinsky's Murnau: Houses in the Obermarkt and the pentimento technique were used to create this painting.
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Shell Despite the fact that we are surrounded by oddness, we are caught in this realm of "fitting in." It's difficult for us to see beyond what's on offer. This trap tightens a knot that people need to untangle right now. This installation is influenced by Tamara Rusnak’s An Ecology of Feelings. The material symbolizes societal norms that trap us inside this space. The organic materials employ organic shapes with a weird and extraterrestrial feel.
Skin We are constantly striving for perfection in our lives. Even though we don't take care of life with nurturing and seriousness. The skin represents who we are, how we feel, and provides us with a feeling of surface awareness. It creates a barrier between our bodies and the environment. The skin may also represent what is obstructing your emotions or the yearning to express oneself. This piece was inspired by Sompech Wanchit’s Lover.
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Portrayal of
Procrastination & Depression Anuruth (Otto) Ruangronghiranya
Vieux Alberto Giacometti has inspired me to follow his techniques of creating rough clay surfaces and giving emphasis to the head being the focal point. Making other body parts less detailed and shaped isolates the sculpture to have one fixed focal point, therefore giving importance to the face giving off the sense of distress. Rough textures symbolize the rough feeling of anxiety and fear built up within the person, whereas old age characterizes the experience of what one has been through.
Monotonous Works by George Seurat and Chuck Close inspired me to create my own piece pertaining to an allusion that utilizes repetitive shapes to form an image, resulting in an image to be seen as a whole. Seurat's work uses many color dots to blend them all together to form an image. For my idea, I want to introduce Seurat's art style to the tiredness expressed through the physical labor one has been through. Repetitive thumbprints on a black and white canvas represent the monotonous days of the worker. Fatigued Karl Schmidt's techniques and concepts inspire me to create a piece that expresses anxiety and fear. Bags under the eyes or the use of bold line symbolizes the feeling of devastation that one would feel to the point of being worn out and the inescapable void that's holding us down. I want to arouse these types of emotions in others on a personal level, even though people have different perceptions of fear and anxiety, the one thing that is true is the emotions that the person is experiencing.
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Seclude Inspired By Zdzislaw Benski's baroque and gothic style of representing the discomfort of the vastness of space. This piece serves the purpose of representing a secluded space in contrast to his works. While his works may invoke a sense of despair and hollowness, this piece is made with the intent of being relatable in the modern day where such a simple thing as a room can be a medium in displaying a surge of complex emotions; one made to be contained unlike the overt presence of his works.
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The relationship between
Food and Culture Peem Puvacharoen
Dim sum This piece is drawn from my experience as a Thai-Chinese person. Even though dim sum is predominantly a Chinese dish, it is still a very popular dish rooted in Thai-Chinese culture. This piece was taken at an old dim sum restaurant in Chinatown, just like me, the dish is rooted in Chinese culture and has its origin from China, but it is created and adjusted to fit Thai culture and taste. This piece is made using oil and acrylic, oil is used to paint the baskets and the food because of oil colors similar to that of the food, it’s difficult to work with, yet it could yield incredible results if done right. This is an analogy to the complex cooking methods in Chinese cuisine.
Beef Noodles This piece is drawn from my experiences as a Thai-Chinese person. The subject of this piece, or the beef noodles, represent myself since Thai noodles are a mix between Thai and Chinese food and culture, furthermore, the reason that I chose to use beef noodles instead of other types of noodles is because beef noodles are my favorite and because of that, I feel like it is an accurate representation of me and my culture and heritage. Furthermore, the two flowers in the background are also representative of Thai and Chinese culture, with the pink flower, or the peony, being the national flower of China and the yellow flowers, ratchapruek (casta fistula), being the national flower of Thailand. For this piece, I was influenced by the Thai Artist Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, as he is known for taking western culture and mixing it with Thai culture in his own paintings.
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Ink In this piece, I wanted to explore the relationship between unhealthy food and death. The foods that I wanted to represent in this piece are food from America, China and Thailand because of my own identity, I am an American citizen, living in Thailand, coming from an ethnically and culturally Chinese background.
Print In this piece I wanted to explore the similarities and differences of food from different cultures. The dumpling is the subject of my piece because as a form of food, the dumpling is prevalent in many cultures, in Chinese culture it’s the Jiao Zi, in Japanese culture it’s the Gyoza and in Italian culture it’s the ravioli. I find it fascinating that despite the distance and differences in every culture, there is still something similar between them all.
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Effects of Human relationships and surroundings
Light, shadow, and form Peeraya (Pennt) Laorittikrai
Cotton, candy, clouds, crows’ series ‘Cotton, candy, clouds, crows’ is a series of photographs taken when the sun is setting, focusing on the crows gathered around the electric posts and their wires. The photograph revolves around the complexity of the city wires and how nature adapts to the consistent changes, ultimately resulting in beautiful, unimaginable sceneries which are hard to capture. Comparable to the idea of ‘surrealism’, these cotton candy clouds create a dreamy effect, leaving the audience in their own imaginations.
The Lights "The Lights," set in Yaowarat, Bangkok’s modern Chinatown, focuses on the lights and shadows through the portrayal of photography. Yaowarat specializes in its nightlife, displaying the wonders of colour through signs and advertisements and attracting both locals and foreigners. Known for its neon lights and traffic, people are stunned by the shimmering night lights. With motion, movement, and the contrast between light and darkness, this series of photographs illustrates the beauty of Chinatown.
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Skystalker ‘Skystalker’ refers to a transformer prime, an energy-efficient Decepticon micromaster who has full control over the interstellar shuttle. In the contemporary world, fictional characters are only a part of imagination, but what if it’s brought to life? These fictional characters live rentfree in children’s minds, a futuristic setting that not only humans can access. However, with certain limitations of human imag- The Cache inations, they are only restricted to being ‘The Cache’ refers to something that is hidden or stored, particularly short-term monochrome, equivalent to a sketch. computer memories. In correlation to the artwork, the boat depicts a person travelling through time, the canal acting as a memory lane, along with graffiti representing past experiences. Ultimately, all of these reminiscences are contained in the person’s brain, equivalent to how people utilize the cache. Furthermore, the boxes portray how the memories build up, illustrating that this occurs in the futuristic society. Lost in Polaroidise The word ‘Polaroidise’, a play of words between polaroid and paradise. ‘Lost in Polaroidise’ refers to how the neon lights effectively attract the viewer to the lights rather than the polaroid camera, lost in the vividness of colours. The contrasting light becomes delusional and creates another dimension where the light revolves around the main subject: the camera. It cannot be defined whether the audience is lost in the artwork’s complication or the artwork is lost in the audience’s mind.
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Subconscious dreams and symbolism
Imagination Wonderland Sushanard (Shana) Kunsuwan
Imagination In this piece, the wooden coat hanger represents humans who were born bare and vulnerable, and the wires wrapped around it represent our imagination that shapes us into who we are and makes us strong. Even though the wooden hangers can be broken, the wires are what holds the shape and keep us going.
The Human Project This project is inspired from the tragic news that had been making headlines in Thailand for a long time about people being killed for their organs and body parts which would be sold on the black market. To me, it is as if people’s parts were those of animals sold in the supermarket. Thus, I want to capture that, so that people will have a clear interpretation and deeper understanding of this issue.
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The Hidden Truth This painting is inspired by my The red mist dream of a prostitute who showed This installation art was created to me a glimpse of her past and demonstrate what girls and women how she died before helping me go through when we menstruate escape. and how it feels. Even nowadays, there are still people who do not understand. Girls and women are criticized for having their periods. My close friends and I have experienced this type of shaming firsthand. Thus, I've created this project so that the person who sits inside will experience the discomfort, the bloodiness of it all.
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Human Mind and
Emotions
Kanlaekan (Leia) Lertlerphunt
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The Development of
Thai Culture
Pornrawin (Prae) Wongprasertphon
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Woradej (Korn) Prathipsakunthong
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