Studio vs Comfort of home

Thanks to Studio Art Supplies for Sponsoring

One People One Planet event @ Auckland Art Week

It has been 6 months since I made a blog entry. 6months and 13days to be exact.. that is if my maths hasn't failed be and believe it has, on many occasions (despite being Asian, it isn't that surprising).

By now, people should know I am a slack updater. Even my Deviant art account is gathering virtual dust particles of 101000101000. So, I guess with this blog, the best thing to do after a long absence is update this virtual world of what I did.

Here I go:

• Seen snow for the first time! I know many would say "What???" But to me, it was a step out of the protective environment of my mother.. I know I am 23 and all, but times when being Chinese, female and a only child defies any age and brings you the... at most... problems of a over protective mother. But putting that aside.

It was a exciting, all 6 of us friends in a van, driven by Aubrey and Only Aubrey (due to mistakes of getting a manual instead of a automatic). But we made it, all the way to the mountains.

• Got myself a studio! In-fact I actually signed the studio lease before the trip. My little studio space situates among other graduates in a warehouse behind the CEAC or as more of you know it up in Auckland. Corbans Art Estate.

A huge thanks to Selene Simcox! Really she suggested I sign up (so we can work together) knowing of available spaces in the area. The community here is very nice, supportive and constantly busy. A very neat place to get your creative juices flowing.

• Was involved in Metonymy! As some of you may have heard, Metonymy (in its 3rd year this year) happens annually, where a writer and visual artist is made into a pair after selection and given about 2 months to complete a piece of work to be once again.. chosen to be exhibited at the Corban's Art Estate.

Rachael Naomi Heimann, Sin-Mae Chung 2010 Let's see where it takes us.

Multi media, sound, installation. Variable sizes.

Rachael Naomi Heimann, Sin-Mae Chung 2010 Let's see where it takes us.

Close up documentation: Multi media, sound, installation. Variable sizes.

I was teamed up with the lovely Rachael Naomi Heimann. A wonderful writer and a hell of a great character! Definitely enjoyed the entire experience with this project. Our whole entire methodology revolved around pure process. There is a beginning, but there is no end.

And so you all know, we managed to make it in the final selection and exhibited, and was named as being a part of the top 5 works of the year. (I missed the announcement sadly) But we thank the guys of Metonymy for this great experience. I met wonderful people through that!

• Was a part of Auckland's first ever Auckland Art Week! Our team Crossover, was asked by lovely Cleo Barnett of First Thursdays to supervise the children activities for One People One Planet.

Art by Marc 2010 Peace cat, santa.

Face Paint fun. By Rachael Garvey and myself.

Although she is best at it. She did the first spider man and the tiger.

Meghan of Sister Darling and Rachael Garvey watching over the first group of kids.

The Goal of One People One Planet, involves the interaction of children, groups of children from schools and places are asked to create a 1meter sized banner on concepts of peace or what they think of the planet that they will inherit some day (these banners will then be combined to hopefully create the biggest peace banner). It is amazing how children have a strong voice on this subject. After this Auckland art week setting, the banners will be taken to the Beehive and exhibited there.. then flown to the USA to the Whitehouse so the children of the Whitehouse will get their opportunity to contribute to the collabortation. Where it will then be moved to be examined and looked at by the Guinness World Records.

I wish them the best of luck.. and we of Crossover thank them very much (and Cleo) for allowing us to help out and contribute to this event.

All the products used for the two Saturday mini project was sponsored by Studio Art Supplies! Awesome guys! gave us loads of canvas material, felts, crayons, and even the face paint! They are a artist owned/run art supply store located in Ponsonby near Whitespace. Definately check them out, and if you want long rolls of paper, they are great guys to look at.

And so this brings me to now! Currently I am working towards a show in January, and aiming to complete my commission by December. So it is crunch time for me. Can't help shake the feeling that I am a bit behind. And I didn't expect that this update would take me.. quite some time. So for now, I will leave it like this and update you next time (and post some images of course) on works I am doing.

Woooo now that this overload of verbal pollution has stopped pounding you in the eyes. You can now relax and think.. oh my gosh.. did I just waste 15minutes of my time reading that? Yes.. yes you did, and I am amazed and thankful that you continued reading. So here I make my marking off.. and I shall try and keep in touch.

Banana.. peace out..

*Splits*

Links:

Studio Art supplies (Sponsor) - http://www.studioart.co.nz/

One People One Planet Peace Banner -http://www.onepeopleoneplanet.org/

Auckland Art Week - http://artweekauckland.co.nz/

Cleo Barnett/First Thursday's - http://www.firstthursdays.co.nz/

Meghan/Sister Darling (artist) - http://www.sisterdarling.com/

Metonymy - http://metonymy.weebly.com/

CEAC/Corban's Art Estate - http://www.ceac.org.nz/

Aubrey Rodriguez (Photographer/artist/spoken word) - http://www.aubreyrodriguez.com/