Portfolio 2021

Sherry Wu

I have integrated illustration, photography, cosmetics, installation, graphic design, and so on to show my diversity in art in my works. These works show my ability and the universality of the media I am involved and my attainments in art. I think artworks can be more vivid through digitalization and interaction. A static, plane work can be transformed into a living, moving, four-dimensional work that can build communication with its viewer. This can make the artists' style more apparent and make the audience better immersed in the work. When these static works come dynamic or interactive, they can bring those who don't go to art exhibitions closer to art and blend with art. Like the ocean, you'll never how deep it is unless you touch it.

PHOBIAS

Medium:Alcohol Markers, Markers, VideoSize: 5x11cm. (x6)

The six snakes represent my different phobias.

Fear of the deep sea

Fear of death

Fear of aimlessness

Fear of the public

Fear of height

Fear of crowdedness

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I, fall to abyss, along with whales

I, riding on butterflies, escalating

I, giggling, smirking, nurturing crimes

I, being watched, under dim lights

I, surrounded by connected patterns, enter the stray

I, gaze at dandelions on mountain hills, and never awake

WELCOME to heaven

Medium: Mixed MediaSize: 3D Unknown

Planning

Final

In this work, I tend to show a theme related to my previous work: Phobia. I used the elements I drew on the snake that represents "fear of death"(Skull and dandelion). I was inspired by how people are "blind" in their life. We face choices and chances, but we will not know what it is like before stepping in. I created this work when I was extremely depressed and desperate. The purpose of work is to 'brainwash' myself that there will be an exit for any difficulties and challenges I face. For me, this work isn't pessimistic. Instead, hope is also identified.

The Möbius Ring

Medium: Micron Pen, Acrylic PlateSize: 50x52cm.

Illustration

The pictures are copied from a quarter corner and pieced together with the other three corners to form a complete shape. Each corner is surrounded by dragons, white cranes, and Buddha faces, with some Möbius rings in the middle. Inside the Möbius rings are Buddhist fingers, auspicious clouds, lotus flowers, and Buddhist scriptures. These Buddhist elements, confined within the ring, can move freely.The Möbius ring has only one face and one edge, which seems to be three-dimensional; but it is hard to define which side is top or bottom, outside or inside. There is free movement within the Möbius ring. Everyone has their own religious faith in their own Möbius ring. We are all free within our Möbius faith ring.

Installation

This artwork is transformed from my other plane painting, Möbius Ring Faith. I wanted to use the cultural element of the Möbius ring to make an artistic room divider.

THE FISH SERIES

Medium: Digital Art, Collage, Video

Grasp my heart

As well as my soul—

A heart, lacking power;

A body, lacking soul.

Clench them in my palm—

A weak heart;

A hopeless soul.

Endeavor to survive.

Within my palm,

Unable to grasp you tightly,

My fingers are also constrained by the chain.

Who struggles to survive?

Not you,

But me.

Some thoughts, just thoughts,

Can hardly be carried out.

Some fish seem to be free—

Freely swimming,

But confined to the fish tank.

We all want to be rid of these fetters,

to liberate ourselves from the shackles.

Video

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Outside the screen is

the boundless ocean.

Inside the screen,

Hindering my dreams.

Wandering and wandering,

I know my journey,

Full of fantasy.

SALUTE

Medium:Bristol paper, wood-sticks, light bulbSize: 66x37 cm.

Process

Installation Final

I was inspired by two balls of discarded paper on the floor by the wastebasket. This lamp is created by abstract geometric lines. I shaped it in a pose of saluting its master.

Make Connections with your cell phone to change colors of the light-software design

Planning

Pages Final

It would be boring to have a lamp in only one color. So I designed this app as a remote control to change colors through the smartphone. The functions of the app include blue tooth connection and image projection. In order to make the app more eye-catching, I added the options to change the theme of the interface. Users can set their favorite colors for the different functions on the app. In addition, users can also upload their usage process and leave messages on the app as a personal usage logbook.

READY TO BLOOM

Medium: Photography, Cosmetics

I attempted to cheer myself up when I fell into the depths of depression. The white eyebrows represent my depression. The floral decorations on the face and the purple eyeshadow and lipstick symbolize that the depression is about to leave—my plight is about to disintegrate, and everything is looking up. Our depressive mood can easily be driven away by makeup, can’t it?

COVER DESIGN PRACTICE x3

Medium: Photoshop

This piece is a more commercialized graphic design product, a combination of font, pictures, and geometric shapes. It is undoubtedly a brand new experiment for me. I started with words and created a front and back book cover that fits the term. I did seek interest through working on these, and daily practices are continuing currently.

UNTITLED

Medium: Photography

This piece is also experimental. I've never tried portrait photography before. The process of finding suitable space, dealing with climate (the sun), and afterward editing photos is undoubtedly a tremendous workload. But it is satisfying to look at it after it is completed. Adding on, I chose to let my model wearing Hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing) because of a personal ambition to advertise and promote an oriental beauty that only belongs to China. I hope I did that successfully.

A Hidden Corner

City Photography

I collected several pieces from the past and edited them to be in harmony, and my purpose is to show various cultures through how cities look like. I included several photos from different places in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka). Surprisingly, the atmospheres expressed are different even though they are 'corners' in the same country.

Fall 2020 Interdisciplinary Art Practice I

Altering Self Portrait in 3 Ways

Medium(From left to right): Photography, Digital Collage, Digital Illustration

The prompt is to alter three ways of SIGNS, I decided to use my portrait as the sign and exhibited them in three ways. Three artistic styles were performed: Realism, Surrealism, and Graphic

ME AND ME

Medium: Digital Photography

In this piece, I wanted to express the concept of duality, and the duality appears in everyone of us. Every person holds a mask in front of people, and take off while alone. A sense of eeriness was formed in the photos. I was inspired by my own experience (again). I enjoy the time while being alone. I can feel the dual self of me and escape from reality. I seem to enclose my self in a heterotopia with another me. "Perhaps, the loneliness emotion had never appered on me" is what I want to inform through these photographs.

Fall 2020 4D Fundamentals projects

1.Time:CLOUD TIMELINE

MEDIUM: Micro fine point markers

For this piece, I recorded the movements and changes of clouds by observing the clouds at different time period. I drew 11 pieces of clouds and put them all together, depicts time flows by putting them in a long strip (timeline format). I didn't draw the clouds in details, instead, I only recorded the basic shape of the clouds. I left a small space of balank at the end is because eventually I couldn't see any clouds at the end due to the darkness of the sky.

2: KEEPING TIME: A MOMENT / AN INFINITY

MEDIUM: Video

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I combined frame-by-frame cartoon with video, emphasizing daydreaming by creating a juxtaposition between the reality and the fantasy. I was inspired by daily life, which I do every day to show the time elapses.

PHOTOSHOP LAYER PRACTICE

3.MOVEMENT AS TIME/MOVEMENT OVER TIME:The Journey of A Balloon

MEDIUM: Photography

In this piece, I used a balloon as the movement and simply recorded the balloon's path on a windy day. When the balloon flew to a playground in front of my place, a little girl grabbed it and started playing with it. Later, more kids joined her, and they began to play together. Unfortunately, the balloon burst while they were playing with it. I used mask in photoshop and only left the balloon with color to emphasize the balloon's route and movement.

PHOTOSHOP BLENDING MODE PRACTICE

4.POLITICS OF SPACE/POLITICS OF BODY: Desire

MEDIUM: Digital Art, photography

I believe everyone has met toilsome moments, and when it builds up, we want to suicide. For me, every time I say, “I want to suicide,” it is a joke. It is more like an expression through speaking, just like we cry when we are sad and curse when we are upset. I decided to visualize this moment of speaking. This topic isn’t directly related to the politics of space, but it involves space. I noticed that I always imagine different ways to suicide in my mind, so I recreated those moments in photographs. You might see a juxtaposition between reality and creation in my artwork, just like what I did in the second project. And again, I flipped how it should be. The person thinking should be real, but the scene it is thinking should be fake. I overturned the roles and made them the other way to create mocking and irony. Moving to the focal point of the artwork, the flipped mask on top of the figure was inspired by a group of illustrations I saw somewhere on social media. It is a good way to show the word “thinking” instead of using thought bubbles, which lack aesthetics. I chose to use yellow as the overall tone is because I was evading a general tone of eeriness. The act of committing suicide is scary, but I don’t want my audience to feel that when they first see it. Since the photographs are small compare to the overall arrangement, I want an eeriness to evoke when my audience pays close attention to the photograph.

Spring 2020 2D Fundamentals projects

SKETCH PRACTICE

LINE PROJECT

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