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Some random drawings I did for class

Untitled (Frat House)

42" x 54"

For this one I used some weird Korean kids-craft crayon thingies to draw! They're supposed to be oil pastel, watercolor and crayons in one? haha. welps... this is the view that I see outside of my apartment here in UCLA. I live on frat row, so yes, this is the back of a frat. I don't have a lot of room in my apartment so I had to tape this huge piece of paper on the wall and draw based a lot on memory (since I had to constantly look outside, then go to the paper and try to remember how it looked like). I liked working with the limited colors that the crayons provided me; it left me to make some color decisions like making the walls orange.

This one is called Pigeon Carrier. I liked this title since you don't know who it is referring to (the old man is carrying pigeons or is it pigeon carriers as in the birds that deliver letters?). For this piece I was just thinking about communication. I have friends overseas and I thought it was interesting that the only form of communication that I have with them is via facebook. Thus I became interested in connections and of how I would depict them. 

This image here is the first thing that came to mind. This old man here represents an old form of communication--pigeon carriers. Yet he also holds a stick that is connected to different pieces of string--different people. I thought that it was interesting of how these connections can be easily cut off or even thrown away (the whole stick) entirely. Yet, the connections in the form of birds are more precious since they are actual lives. Welps, the old man is holding a cage that contains a dead bird. I was just thinking about lost connections: perhaps his dead wife or divorced wife? I know that these images may make the viewer assume that I am against forms of communication that are not in-person (since the old man seems to be burdened and downtrodden by these forms of communication). Yet, i am not haha. err and some other random things... his hair makes a nest and you could see three eggs in it... yet one egg is hatching a satellite thing--hinting at how living in this world, it is unheard of for a college student per se to not have a cell phone. Technology and in this case, mechanical forms of communication, are the norm. 

Yet for this piece, I like just for the image. I actually don't really care of the points that I mentioned pull through. I like to leave it to the viewer to create their own meaning and story behind the images that I create. So there: create! :D

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