2013 - 2017 Illustration
portfolio Gami Chou
Room for Rent 21 x 29.7 cm computer graphic 2017
Given the high propert y prices, it is common for people to share an apartment in Taipei cit y. However, these “roommates� do not seem to know each other too well, despite the fact that they are in close proximity to each other. We usually come to know a person through his/her appearances and personal attributes, which somewhat reflect his or her personality, so that means our sense of self-identity is also built around the clothes we wear and the way we talk. On the other hand, the living space is also an expression of personal identity, and with that said, I decided to draw a room to illustrate a person’s image.
DRAFT
1. Draw different sections of the picture on seperate layers. 2. U s e d b r u s h e s t o a d d colours to areas which were only black. 3. Combine all the layers.
PROCESS
First, I selected some people, who I was familiar with. Second, based on my own impression of these people, I drew several rooms as illustrations on to flyers. Finally, I printed out these flyers and posted them on the bulletin board at various locations.
Anyone who was interested in the rooms on the flyers could tear off the contact information tabs and visit the website, which contained more information about the owner of the room.
PROJECT WEBSITE / roomforrentproject.weebly.com
Make you feel very very small 42 x 29.7 cm pencil, computer graphic 2015
STORY The astronaut is surrounded by equations and formulae in the silence of space. Outer space is so beautiful that he cannot stop crying. The tear drops floating around like pearls. The astronaut realises that he is very, very small.
Journalists fall over themselves trying to interview the astronaut when he returns to Earth. The astronaut says, “I’m not a great person, on the contrary, I am so small, yet gravity has still not deserted me”. If all the people have the same feelings as the astronaut, the earth would not be so crowed.
Taoyuan Illustration Competition topic: outer space & earth environment maximaum: 3 pieces of works
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reflection of reading
After reading a book, I drew my feelings according to the stories.
mixed media 2017
Submarine Isaka Kotaro
Ningen-Isu Rampo Edogawa
The Man with the Compound Eyes. Wu Ming-Yi
The story describes how the two family judges(a special occupation in Japan) try to help the teenagers, who commit crimes. The process they talk to the young children is similar to the "throw and catch game."
I n t h i s s t o r y, a n a r t i s a n m a k e s a beautiful chair and hides inside the chair. The chair is carried to a woman writer's room. Day by day, the artisan falls in love with the woman, and decide to tell her the truth...
It is a fiction novel narrates the environment i s s u e s i n Ta i w a n . T h e r e a r e t w o m a i n characters, a Taiwanese college professor and an aborigine from an Pacific island. They meet each other and face the environment impact together.
Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal This story narrates an old man, who works in a waste paper recycling station. He collects various books and presses them into a solid cube. His job is not just a tedious routine to him. On the countrary, he takes this job as creating art works. Although people think that it is a menial occupation, he is actually a more learned person than the others. Because he gains a lot of knowledge by reading these abandoned books.
God of Train 210 x 19 cm ink, pen, fabric 2013
If the god of trains existed, it would camouflage itself as a passenger in order to sit beside a person and listen to his/her story. Firstly, I draw several passengers on the paper and cut them out. Secondly, I stuck these pieces on a long piece of fabric, which is a symbol for the train. Finally, I used pencils to draw the shadows of the travellers and wrote their stories inside their shadows, and then hung them with string. The strings then weaved and tangled with each other, creating a web of connections, similar to real relationships between people.
A.P. solo exhibition The Cave Gallery
Iron it out 22 x 15.5 cm pencil, computer graphic 2017
I suffer the pain of depression. I try to analyse the symptoms of the disease by reading several books. After that, I feel better. Therefore, I draw the process. In my view, the process analysing myself is similar to ironing my heart out. My feeling of depression becomes a flat folding cartons, which I can spread out and see inside objectively.
Cube 18 x 15 cm Acrylic Paint , pencil, gesso 2014
I used cubes to describe a sense of safety and a sense of oppression, which comes from my own experiences.
After I watched a horror movie titled cube, I try to use cubes to express the anxiety and oppression I felt in life. For example, the severe learning environment in high school that makes me feel sick. However, I feel safe when I am in narrow spaces, for instance, when I felt secure while I lay in a shopping trolley, and being pushed around by my mother. Thus, I drew a series of pictures to present both of these feelings.
sense of oppression
sense of safety
Invisible City mixed media 2015
STORY There is an Invisible City. All objects, people, memories that disappear will go there. A l i ttl e boy wan t s t o g o t o t h e Invisible City in order to find his dead sister. On the other hand, a novelist tries to go to the Invisible City in order to find his lost inspiration.
Graduation Exhibition National Taiwan Arts Education Center
EXHIBITION DESIGN I arrange two stories on the different sides. The boy's story is on the right hand, and the novelist's one is on the left. People can read both stories s e p a r a t e l y ; h o w e v e r, they can find that the boy and the novelist actually are the same person in different time periods.
DRAFT
Total: 40 pieces of works
Personal Portfolio 2013 - 2017 Gami Chou
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