YUTING

portfolio of

YU TING

Yu Ting, Deng

FISH 1989/7/14 +886-911833280 y-to3138@st.kyoto-art.ac.jp

2016 2012

2017 2016 2015

2014

Kyoto University of Art and Design (KUAD), Japan Master of Arts, Visual Creation Field Soochow University (SCU) Taipei, Taiwan Bachelor of School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Double major in Chinese Literature and Japanese Language and Culture. editor of Taiway magazine, Taipei, Taiwan “Paradise” Duo Exhibition, Kyoto & Tokyo, Japan Graduate School Degree Show of KUAD, Kyoto, Japan Illustrator’s Wall of TIBE(Taipei International Book Exhibition), Taipei, Taiwan “SPURT”, Group Exhibition of Graduate School of KUAD, Japan “ハンツメ”(Hantsume), Printmaking Group Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan “めくる、めぐる”(Mekuru,Meguru), Picture book Group Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan “HOP”, Group Exhibition of Graduate School of KUAD , Kyoto, Japan

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Profile

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Counting sheep polymer plate etching

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Self-portrait silkscreen

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Sweet days editor of free paper

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Bunnifish digital painting

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Cloudy watercolour

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Taiway editor of magazine

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Narrative practices

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Photography

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Counting sheep

The picture book ''Counting Sheep'' describes a girl fall into the world that she has desired for a long time. She was so delighted at the beginning but then she found that she can't fall asleep anymore. So she started to play with sheep which she met when she was counting them. When the night was come, the sheep took her to many places and they had a good time. One day, the sheep told her that they need to sleep and couldn't get along with her anymore. The sheep had gone. No matter how hard the girl tried to find, still she could not reach them at all. She cried sadly, and the sheep showed up and told her '' we do cherish the time with you.''

The girl decided to discover the world, having memories with the sheep.

I made the illustration series Counting Sheep by using the polymer plates, which combines the skills of silkscreen and etching, started from painting the line scripts and sensitisation then printed them as the way to print a copper plate. It took me about half a year to create this picture book and was displayed in the group exhibition ''

めくる、めぐる

turn the page and go around)

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''. (''Mekuru, Meguru'', means

polymer etching/26x18(cm)

polymer etching/26x18(cm)

polymer etching/26x18(cm)

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blue hair

tail of fish

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fishee

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copper plate/25x15(cm) acrylic,drypoint etching/23x15(cm)

practice of Copper plate & drypoint I choose copper- plate as my next stage tothe solkscreen. In this step, I used the skill of pre-sensitised which came from silkscreen to create a copper plate. After etching twice I printed it in monochromatic tone and I liked the effect very much. (↑) After learning and experimenting with printmaking for nearly half a year, including trying out different copperplate etching techniques, I decided to switch to using acrylic plate, with the technique of drypoint etching.

The illustration series Counting Sheep

was made of drypoint etching as a

perparation of picturebook has the same topic and name. This series of works was exhibited as part of the Illustrator s Wall collection at TIBE 2015(Taipei International Book Exhibition), and was displayed in the group exhibition Hantume (「ハ ン ツ メ」 means fill up the plates ) of the printmaking seminar in Take Two Gallery at Kyoto. (→)

acrylic,drypoint etching/23x15(cm)

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acrylic,drypoint etching/23x15(cm)

acrylic,drypoint etching/23x15(cm)

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acrylic,drypoint etching/22x30(cm)

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Self-portrait silkscreen/27x27(cm)

The first printmaking skill I learned was silkscreen. I used my favourite colour of blue and yellow and painted the elephants I saw in my dream with a girl's face respond to me. The flying fish symbolised freedom and also stand for my nickname Fish . This work does not require many artistic skills or colour matching yet it has always been my favourite one. It marked the very first step on printmaking to me.

Having the foundation skills of silkscreen, I moved on to the next step to photomechanical process, separating a collage work to 4 parts of CMYK then print them in sequence. Although using the same topic as self-portrait, the form of college urges me to think deeper. I used an old photo of me taken by my father, trimming the shape of me then painted some ice cream over my head which was inspired by the floating coffee serviced in common cafe in Japan.

I tore papers into little pieces to add colours. Some broken sentences in Japanese can be seen among those pieces to express my feeling to the period that had to facing so many big Japanese words . But if read it carefully, you will find there are many cosy words such as meteor or dream .

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silkscreen/40x29(cm)

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Sweet days

digital painting/12.8x18.2(cm)

Studies in Kyoto University of Art and Design

1 The history of Taiwan During my time at graduate school, I had also chosen subjects concerning the history of Taiwan, especially the the period of Japanese occupation. Even though this particular period of time is still being considered as a very controversial topic in Taiwan, it signified the beginning of modernisation, and the ruling of Japan did left considerable contribution. I collected history materials, then visualised them into pictures. I applied knowledge learnt previously at university, and added bilingual descriptive articles to the work, which was presented as free papers “Taiwan,Darjeeling” , “Sweet Days” and “1920's Taiwanese Women Fashion Zine''.

Taiwan,Darjeeling Through the history of Taiwanese Tea, I found that there was a very interesting tea revolution including new varieties introduced and innovative marketing plans during the period of Japanese occupation. I wrote articles in Chinese and Japanese to describe with illustrations made by silkscreen. Since Tea's advertisements in that times were often made by silkscreen with very simple colours arrangement, I used it as a reference and make my works only with blue, red and the colour of papers. The works finally became little zines displayed with Illustrations in the group exhibition “Hop” of first year students of graduate school.

silkscreen/29.7x42(cm)

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Other than the history of tea, I was also interested in foods and western

start from here

foods culture introduced to Taiwan by the Japanese. Apparently it was mixed with western, Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese cultures altogether and that was also the reason which make the history fascinating. The famous chain coffee store “Morinaga” ( 森永 ) and “Meiji” ( 明治 ) were built almost a hundred years ago located at the area close to Taipan main station popular as Starbucks nowadays. There were many kinds of western sweets like caramel candy sold to Taiwan because of these two big brands.

In this works, I have tried to do it like making a silkscreen work by digital painting that separated four colour layers of pink, light blue,navy blue and yellow in Illustrator(AI) and painted each of them respectively. Combined with the bilingual articles, the works ended up to be free papers displayed in the group exhibition “Spurt” of second year students of graduate school. The illustrations was printed out as a maze game which was inspired by the advertisement published in 1930 ’ s newspaper printed in Taiwan. The illustration displayed with free papers. After the exhibition I redigned it to an A5 size zine as shown previously.

an advertisement published in 1930 ’ s newspaper printed in Taiwan.

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follow the order of ‘カルピス’ (ka,ru,pi,su) and find the way out.

・easy to carry ・read history with fun

digital printing/59.4x42(cm)

Answer

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bunnifish digital painting/10x10(cm)

The creature having a rabbit-liked upper body and a fish's tail and I name it ''Bunnifish'' which is specially painted to my little niece born in November 2016. Our families had raised four little rabbits pets for very long time and it made us feel relatable to anything that concerned to rabbits. Even though they have passed away, they appeared in my painting frequently. The ''Bunnifish'' represent the love to the babygirl from me and whole family.

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take two This series was one of the color-simplified experiment and the result has been continuously applied on the work ‘‘Bunnifish’’ .

It’ s a case job from Gallery take two in Kyoto. Considering the name ''take two'', I painted 2 kinds of illustration and limited the number of colours. I separated an illustration into two parts, one is either a boy or a girl, another one is a lower part of half body that might belong to one of them, a centaur or a mermaid. These works were also printed as masking tapes. digital painting/15x10(cm)

test piece :

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digital painting/15x10(cm)

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cloudy

Rain Room

Pure Pure Me

Merely Spring

Merely Spring

Rain Room

watercolour/12x17(cm)

A piece that I painted after the trip to Shanghai in the winter of 2015 while the exhibition ''Rain Room'' (2012) by the artists Random International was presented in the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. I visited the exhibition then painted my ''Rain Room'' after that. It contained memories during my travel in Shanghai, and away to take note of my adventures.

Pure Pure Me

watercolour/10x15(cm)

This work was painted under a very hard time to me. I used only one colour blue, trying to express the feeling deep in my mind. I usually use light blue more often, but in this piece I chose the navy blue to present the darker and heavier atmosphere.

I often paint something before I going to sleep, with the light turned off and only the desk lamp was on.

I would also like to play some classical music and have some liquors to fully relax. The process of painting sometimes can become a therapy to me to relieve the sadness or pain I suffer in life.

Merely Spring

watercolour/12x17(cm)

These two pieces were painted in February 2016. After finished my thesis for master degree, I experienced a period of times without the clear target and felt worried for the future. The weather was still very cold in Kyoto, and the snow were falling sometimes. I painted the girl lived inside of me waiting the Spring to come.

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I created the character ‘’ Cloudy ‘’ ( わため , stands for わたあめ which means candyfloss.) after I went to Japan since 2015. Sometimes this girl could reflect myself and sometimes she lives in a fantasy world in my imagination. The most representative feature of the character is her blue hair, and with the changing in my daily life it could be long or short. There are many connections between me and her.

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2015

2015 Spring

2015 Autumn

2016

The Gift

Summerz Breezez

2016 Summer

2016 Autumn

2017

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10 倍拡大

直径：8mm サボテンタピオカは、サボテン果汁を使用し、あっさりとした酸味 のある味わい。香りも食感と同じく、絶妙な風味を醸しています。

直径：3mm 湯圓のような食感のタピオカ。

直径：6mm - 8.5mm タピオカと同義。中国語で俗に「珍珠」と称され

直径：8-10mm

ます。さらに細かく「珍珠」とより大きいサイズ の「波霸」に分けられ、さらに「中タピオカ」や「小

TAIWAY

8mm

タピオカ」にも区分されます。初期は白色でした

台南の塔彼 Q 茶飲という店が研究開発したタピオカ。韓国の唐辛

が、今主流の黒色の粉圓はカラメルを煮込んで作

子粉を加えて作ったタピオカは、噛んだら最後にほんのり辛さを

られています。

感じる、異国の香辛料との出会いが新しい滋味を生んだ一品。

直径：7mm 台東は自然が豊かなだけではありません。忘れてはいけないのが、 この稻米原

館の米タピオカ。池上米に片栗粉、黒糖などを混ぜ合

わせた手作りの味です。米粒はその完全な形を保っていて、さらに 正方形に切り分けられた、特徴的なタピオカ。台湾の国産米とタピ オカがコラボした革新的な飲料は試す価値ありです。

4mm

2mm

6mm

直径：10mm

FB ⇨

熱湯を注いで 30 秒で食べられるインスタントタピオカ。

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部屋を出て飲料を買いに行くのも面倒な人に朗報です。

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情報提供した私ども『台味誌』以外に、こんな便利なも のを作ってくれた「豊誠冷凍食品」に感謝するのもあり、 ですよ。

総面積 36,188 平方 Km の台湾では、100 歩歩けばタピオカミルクティーを売る店が見つ かります。統計データでは、台湾人は毎年平均 44 杯 のタピオカミルクティーを消費しています。これには古 くから続くお茶への愛慕以外に、タピオカも欠かせない役

直径：10mm

割を担っていることは間違いないでしょう。古詩に曰く、 「大珠小珠落玉盤（白居易「琵琶行」の一節。琵琶の澄

台湾地区の伝統的なスイーツ。タロイモを蒸してペースト状にし、

んで心地よい音色を表す）」。皆様に伝えたいのは、

サツマイモ粉と水を混ぜて成形します。小さく切って、沸騰した

大きくても小さくても、柔らかく歯ごたえがあり、

水の中に入れて浮かんできたら出来上がり。どこで食べられるか

香りがいいものは、全て良いタピオカだとい

って？九份のオールドストリートに行けば、食べ放題ですよ！

うことです。

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た 発明し

No.2 Swear words

No.3 Bubble Tea

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Magazine ''Taiway''( 台味誌 ), which introduces Taiwanese culture by recording those titbit trivial

台北

トロー 太口ス ュー 鮮烈デビ

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No.1 Breakfast

明 喩と弁 ーは比 情報 クティ 最新 カミル WS タピオ NE 広告

第三次

カ？ 毒タピオ

タ ピ オ カ

参 考 図 例

ス 材 ト 料 ロ 学 検 測

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作者：Re-lab 翻譯：鄧愉亭、島村朋惠

zzthings have great impact on us in our daily life. I worked as a Japanese editor in this bilingual

magazine includes Chinese and Japanese. The adjective ''台'' (Tai), which has the meaning of the food, people and behavior in local Taiwanese style. We made three topics relate to Taiwanese

life features as, ''Breakfast'', ''Swear words'' and ''Bubble Tea'' to redefine the meaning of '' 台 '' (Tai).

The team of ''Taiway'' was made up of Taiwanese and Japanese scholars, designers, illustrators and editors. All of us are under age of 30. The magazine has made a great success and been a heated discussion on the SNS media such as facebook and PTT, the largest terminal-based bulletin board system based in Taiwan.

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narrative practices

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2014 Winter Naoshima Isaland, Japan watercolour pencil/10x15(cm)

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II

2016 Spring Nigata, Japan

#1 Once upon a time, there was a mother fish who brought foods home to her beloved children, little little fish and his sister. / 1 2

When the night has come, Mother fish held little little fish and his sister

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sleep through the night. / One day, Mother fish went out of home and never came back. / Fish sister burst into tears and started growing bigger and bigger. //

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#2 Once upon a time, there was a Mr. Seaweed. He had never left in a same place in the past 30 years of the age. / On the day of his 30th, Miss Carol egg was floating over him surprisingly. / 1 2 3 4

They looked into each other deeply…

But then, Miss carol egg kept on her journey. / “I want to see this world.” Mr. Seaweed determined. //

#3 Mr. Seaweed drifted around. He lost the trace of Miss Carol egg and was hurt by the tide. /

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After the good caring and healing by little little fish and his sister, Mr. Seaweed

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recovered well day by day. / One day, Mr. Seaweed and Fish Sister found out that they had been used to living together and and didn’t want to be separated. / Little little fish wanted to grow up faster. He wanted to find out the place that belongs to him.// 31

#4 Miss Coral egg was an optimistic person. / Sometimes she might felt depressed. /

And sometimes she might thought of some good memories relate to happiness.。 / 1 2

She thought of there are still many places in the world she had never been to.//

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#5 Little little fish had swum higher and higher to see the world above the sea. /

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He met Miss seagull and fell in love with her.

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/ However, the seagull belongs to the sky. Little little fish could do nothing but let his tears fall back to the sea. / After a long time, Little little fish met Miss Coral egg. They became good friends and sharing stories of their long journey to each other.//

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photography

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