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SKETCHBOOK

Although spend a lot of time doing digital drawings and lovely explosion, but I still like hand drawing more than others.

The idea of this pattern comes from a subgroup of the Han Chinese people, Hakka (Mandarin: Kèjiā). They are commonly found in the southern Chinese provinces, such as Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian in China. In Taiwan, Hakka people comprise about 20% of the population and are descended largely from Guangdong: they form the second largest ethnic group on the island. Taiwan's Hakka are concentrated in Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, and around Chungli in Taoyuan County, and Meinong in Kaohsiung County, and in Pingtung County, with smaller presences in Hualian and Taitung County. In recent decades many Hakka have moved to the largest metropolitan areas, including Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.
Many people in Taiwan are of mixed Hoklo, Hakka, and formosan aboriginal heritage. Approximately half of the population of Hakka in Taiwan also speaks Taiwanese, and it is highly likely that many Taiwanese-speaking households were descendants of Hakka families in Taiwan who lost their language a few generations back because of the lack of practical environment.

Traditional War I

明眼人一看就知道這次花紋主要取自阿嬤的紅花布，客家花布有著鮮豔的丹紅色跟牡丹花，象徵喜氣跟富貴。南部的客家人，以藍染技術著稱，客家服飾以「客家藍衫」為主，北部的客家人，偏愛以花布製作衣褲，原因是客家人很節儉。

網路上查到關於客家花布說法：一是客家人以前很窮，只能撿一些別人家剩下的布來拼湊成衣物、背包……等等，而從各家聚集而來的布料自然成了花花綠綠的用品了形成客家花布；另一種說法是花仙娘娘為了感謝客家人的辛勞，便利用許多花的色汁來染成花花綠綠的頭巾、笠巾等飾品來裝飾客家人，因此客家才會有花布的文化。

這個塗鴉是以前在台灣做過的 ' Love and Courage' 紙模原稿還在台灣，於是我用以拉重畫了一遍，也把比例修正了。

A Lovely Explosion

Matilda's new installation in work progress - A Lovely Explosion

[ Illustration Publication - EXPLOSION - Creative Brief]
The aim of this project is to explore new uses of illustration and free ideas from only using pencil on paper, take works to the real world, anything you can image that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary illustration story.

[ Explosion - A Lovely Explosion]
Media used: bubble wrap, ink, and paste
Name: A Lovely Explosion
Size: A0 (841 × 1189 mm)

In terms of reflecting to the main idea of this project to explore the boundary and idea of illustration, I tried to express ‘A Lovely Explosion’ via materials. The function of bubble wrap is protection by explosion of air bubbles, but the word ‘Explosion’ is a violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something. To show the contradiction of dangerous and protective, sweet –coloured inks were injected in to each bubble and constructed a hand grenade shape by water pixels; different colours also dissolve each other from time to time that present a slow and lovely explosion.

Four for a Boy

“TRI·FLE” |ˈtrīfəl| n.

1. Something of little importance or value.
2. A small amount; a jot.
3. A dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream.

‘NO ONE IS INTERESTING IN YOUR TRIFLES!’ a friend told me one day.
At that time, I was doing research about human cells, because to compare with the whole universe, my life is just tiny as a cell that we rarely really consider about it. It is a composite thing combined with a lot of small events, a cellular something, which cannot be seen easily.
After that, I was started to observe friends surround me, those ordinary events happen within daily life. That was how the stories began, combined with the quote:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told.

Then drew stories on Japanese calligraphic paper scroll as a continuous drawing. Each story has its own style, material and stand by itself, but when you see the whole scroll, they thus become a whole, associated with many individual stories, as the same with the research I did about human cells. The scroll format also presents a ‘secret’ atmosphere, it is extremely private, to open it slightly then able to see next image, like traditional Chinese painting.

This is the four story. (but I actually thought to link three and four stories together before) I would like to play around with strange typeface :)

Bling Bling!

The special edition of 'A shiny love story of jellyfish' now on sale!
For more information please check Permanent Bookshop
'what are you going to do after you sold out the jellyfish books, Matilda?'
'Buy a DIY screen printing set!' ( <--very sad with cannot do screen-print anymore after finish the course...)

CSM Final Show in the Mall gallery

Yeah~ after (super tired) final show and (super busy) immersion week, now I finally can have a bit of break (...one day?). I went to Radiohead concert this week, it was fantastic! despite too many drunk people XD and tomorrow, I am going to Linkin Park concert. ioi

Finally I can start to write my silly diary again! yohooo---

And JOB HUNTING!! GOGO!Matilda! (on fire...) <-- seems I finally had a good sleep yesterday O_O

...well... maybe one more day-off will be better...

Small Book Art -Touch the poem in a foreign city

A Braille book - it is functional! These dots are cut out by daily newspaper, so they looked very colourful. It represents not only read the actually text in newspaper, you can 'read' a poem in another way.

A short story

He asked for SEX.
She said NO.
He slammed the door and left.

well.. it is a real story (= _=b)

One for Sorrow - A Pigeon Girl

Because I draw on a scroll of Japanese rice paper, the format of this story is continuous drawing.

[Left: page2]
The owner is a successful old man, who is running pigeon racing business.
[right: page3]
He provides her a beautiful cage, luxury food, but he is always too busy with his pigeon racing business.

Seven for a secret never to be told - Cycle town

1/4 image of the seven story. There is a cycle town, carried by a giant sea turtle, every road called psychopath, everyone live in mental house, if you follow the roads, you can find the biggest secret in cycle town.

One for Sorrow - A Pigeon Girl

The book pages, eight pages, French folding. Draw on print.

One for Sorrow - A Pigeon Girl (daytime)

A Pigeon Girl is the first story of my project, it is a sad story. This is the A1 poster for the book.

[page 1]
There is a pigeon girl, was born to be racing. She flies away in morning, and flies back in evening.

so I made two version, one is daytime the other is nighttime. The one shows in gallery is daytime, nighttime version will be sell in ‘Gifted’ charity art auction in west during summer.