DCMD Journey (cont.) + Seoul trip reflection

It’s not going too good? Not trying to moan and groan (hinthint), really.

A reason for this might be because I avoid completing my work, or even starting. Because I dislike my work and don’t think it’s ever good enough, and by not finishing it, I won’t have to look at the results and go through the self-disgust again. It’s true, I don’t like my work. I hate having to be rushed, and I want my work to turn out the way I want it exactly. Perfectionist? Perhaps. Not too sure now, cause I have other matters that make me think that I’m not one. i'm naturally a slow worker, i think. i think alot before i do, which is another point for me to change if i want to get my work done. i'm grateful for the teachers for pushing us and setting deadlines, cos if they didn't don't think i'd be able to pass...  i heard that teachers don't give a damn once we get to jcs and polys, but really glad that isn't true to an extent.
IMHO, I haven’t done a lot of new works. Hoping that by using competitions that have pre-fixed themes, might get some new works done. But looking at the amount of work that is coming up, not much hope left =_=

At the Seoul design Olympiad, saw lots of kinds of people. They have all kinds of arts, and there is a strong support for the arts, very obvious. Pls la, they even have a ‘village’ for those artists to live in.
They had ceramics as one of their main arts too. Rare, to see in Singapore. But seems quite common there. Also saw quite a few ceramics artists at the artists’ flea market at hong il uni. Lots of handsewn and handicraftish kind of people, but I think they were sort of experts or real artists in those professions. There were lots of hand-sewn bags made by people of the young-ish generation, and leather workers who dye and print on their leather and make stuff out of it, lots of metal workers (another rare thing in Singapore, unless you are a professional or in jewelry design and such stuff). All these people were like, a little older older than us, and the stuff they use is astounding. Like leather, metal, ceramics. Partly cause we don’t have such a foundation of interest here, and partly cause they are expensive (I mean, please, leather? Where to even buy? And metal? You need to melt them at some point, and metals have really really high melting points, if you can recall your chemistry...i think we have a ceramics school or class somewhere, but these people are going to do it for a living! Talk about vast differences…) there was also on-the-spot portrait caricriture artists.
[ these are in my perception, so I’m not accurate ]
Generally the colours they used were bright. Even if they were dark, they were solid and strong, not pale. They reminded me of a swirl of colours, fast moving, precise and intricate. Kinda messy, but dunno how to describe it better. Maybe that was more of what I felt about moving around so fast. Haha. even their graffitti was nice! there seems to be alot of NANA fans at the flea market there...there wasn't enough space to graffitti, they even painted inside the toilet. talk about visual huh. you'd think they don't have enough paper to draw on.

In Singapore, I don’t think there’s such as a thing as a artist’s flea market. Even if there was, I don’t know about it.


btw, it maay take some time for me to get to the yntuc brochure...can't quuuite recall the stuff about the comms model..hmmm. still, i guess i'll just post what i have and update once *cross-fingers* i have the time?





 New quote? “nothing ventured, nothing gained”