My Line is Emo by Mok Jiaman

MY LINE IS EMO

JIAMAN G07

Artist Reference

Laura Charlton She has a very interesting monoprint style that I really like. She uses old boxes, opens them and monoprints them. The monoprints she creates reminds me of buildings or machines.

I followed her style and started playing with the ink I use (chinese ink or acrylic paint), the amount of paint I use and the area where I apply the paint. This will give me different styles and effects.

ANDREA PRAMUK Beautiful artworks by Andrea Pramuk. They give me this dreamy feeling. “This work might remind you of the earth and its elements: cloud formations, the cosmos, geological formations and the vastness of the ocean. Always conscious of my surroundings, body, environment and art become a natural extension of the other, symbiotically.

The resulting ephemeral imagery has a certain weightlessness and fragility about it that I find endlessly compelling and meaningful.�

-Andrea Pramuk

Artist Reference

Cameron Robbins The Wind Drawing Machines are installed in different locations to receive weather energy and translate it into an abstract format of ink drawings on paper.

A physicist from the Bureau of Meteorology has described these wind drawings in mathematical language as ‘phase-space diagrams’.

The drawing machines are instruments. More like clarinets and pianos than compasses or setsquares, they must be maintained, practiced, and performed to produce work that communicates.

ANDREA PRAMUK Sol Lewitt is most often celebrated for his innovation and merging of the minimalist and conceptual art movements.

His belief in the artist as a generator of ideas was instrumental in the transition from the modern to the postmodern era. Conceptual art, expounded by LeWitt as an intellectual, pragmatic act, added a new dimension to the artist’s role that was distinctly separate from the romantic nature of Abstract Expressionism

MARK MAKING TOOL For the first week of class we were asked to create our mark making tool.

I was quite confused. What is a mark making tool?

I started collecting random stuff from the kitchen. Mushrooms, broccoli, a fruit net, dried prunes, chilli and some vegetables.

I dipped them in Chinese ink and started stamping them on my sketch book.

I was disappointed at first. I was just getting little bits of paint because of the weird texture of my mark making tools.

I didn’t really understood what we were suppose to do.

CHINESE INK & A BRUSH After our second class I researched on mark making and found some quite interesting styles and ideas.

I took out my Chinese ink and a brunch of dried and old brushes and started painting on my paper.

I didn’t have a clear idea of the finished product. I just painted different angles, styles and just let myself go.

I also followed Laura Chalton and used open boxes. I played around with the different paint and the amount of paint. I wanted to emphasis on the sides of the boxes and started painting only at the ends of the box.

I also flattened ribbons and strings to create dynamic angles and lines.

WORKROOM

After consulting INA, she told me my lines were very organic and I should create more straight lines. I went back to the workroom.

I used an old mark making tool which I had forgotten to use. It was strings wrapped around an old namecard box. It created an interesting pattern.

I also dripped paint onto my paper and started blowing.

Allowing the paint to flow whereever it wanted to go.

Blowing harder on the blob of paint also causes it to split creating this branch like line.

Original Artworks

Monoprint, stamping, Chinese ink and dry brush

FINISHED ART WORKS My line is Emotional

Distress

Affection

Ecstasy

Agitation

Enjoyment

Agressive

Exhausted

Delight

Fear

Longing

Thrill

Passion

Turbulent

Relief

Uneasiness

Surprise

Anxiety

Systematic

MOK JIAMAN CLASS 07 U1630366H