Ornate Maze Construction

This one actually brings me back to one of my favourite pastimes long long ago - drawing mazes. Can you believe that I actually filled an entire piece of mahjong paper with a giant maze once... with passageways like 5mm wide. Took me damn long to do that... and I have no idea where it went.

Drawing mazes are somewhat therapeutic. You have to follow a strict set of rules in order to make a maze work, and to make it an enjoyable maze for someone to complete, you need a sense of anticipation of which path people are most likely to take. It's a craft that needs a lot of patience as well - a slip of the pen and you could close up the last path that leads to the end, making the maze unsolvable.

This is a simple maze inspired by a Chinese pattern I saw recently. I added some extra ornamentation just to make it look nicer, but most of the time my mazes would be purely circulation paths.

Drippy the Cloud

I really really really hate having a running nose. Somehow the malfunctioning of such a small part of your body can cause a total shutdown of your entire physicality...
THIS is how I feel when I get a Drippy the Cloud:

Flight of Bubbles

Another blast from the past. I did this way way back when I first learnt some techniques in Photoshop, and started playing and digitally painting my pen drawings (also having WAYY to much time on my hands). This one is a water dragon clinging on to his massive mummy. I wanted to capture the feeling of immensity; this is also accompanied by a sense of inevitable coldness and vulnerability. I guess sometimes that's how I feel in life - inextricably attached to something much bigger than myself, but still feeling hopelessly suspended and lost. Woooo.

16 Objects

Objects. Every single object breathes with a life of its own, and tells its own story. Whether metallic and cut with machines, soft and spongy, randomly crystallized, transparent, tangled and grown over a long time, or crumpled and dry, objects together generate meaning. I did this little piece as a matrix of 16 fictitious objects with unclear origin or function.

Here's something I did some time ago - it started off as a bunch (or bouquet) of arrows of differing transparency, and then I decided to turn it into a little jellyfish mascot of mine. I love jellyfish! The way they're freakishly alien yet so gracefully drifting and pulsating in the dark water...

Why the little plastikk qube

To begin it all, I'd like to say that if I were to be an object, I'd most likely choose to be a transparent cube made of cheap plastic. Not acrylic, but the type of plastic that you make those capsules with little toys inside that come out of machines when you put a dollar in. The cube that is me would be about 5cm by 5cm by 5cm, just nice to hold in your palm. The plastic would be around 5mm thick, with no visible seams. And completely empty. I'd like to think of the centre as a complete vacuum, but I guess it would probably have trace amounts of air in it.



Of course, being a cube, this object would probably stack very efficiently, along with many other cubes of the same type and size, all transparent, like perfectly shaped ice cubes sitting within an invisible 3-dimensional grid made visible by the distortion of light. Some of these other cubes would contain gases of varying properties - light helium, flammable hydrogen - some pungent, some corrosive, some inert. All of which are completely transparent and invisible.