by Crystal Clark
This artwork includes a series of subject matters, and represents the concept of dreams. The subject matters consist of a singular pencil with butterflies and fishes protruding from its tip via swirls. It is also accompanied with surrounding bubbles. The pencil is included to show that despite the human brain appearing simple like the pencil, it is capable of producing a widespread variety of dreams. This variety is symbolised as butterflies and fishes. Furthermore, the swirls drawn accentuate the rapidity of this unleashing action, which signals the celerity of dreams formed by the human brain.
Size matters. Things that are greater in size are normally seen as more desirable. However, what is small can be beautiful too. There are many small objects or beings that are pleasing to the eye. I chose a jellyfish as my main subject of focus as I find aquatic life very interesting. Jellyfish especially so, as they come in a large variety of calming colours. The message I want to convey is that size does not determine value, and that beautiful things can span a variety of looks, colours, shapes or sizes.
This artwork's message is mainly focused on the depletion of the bee population. The subject matter is three wilting flowers with an empty honeycomb-like shape in place of a pistil with bubbles of varying sizes in the background . The empty honeycombs is trying to show the lack of bees to fill up the comb, along with that the wilting flowers are signifying imminent death or extinction hinting to bees dwindling more and more each year. Furthermore, the bubbles in the background are metaphors for bees. Bubbles are fragile similar to bees who are vulnerable to climate change and can die easily.
When I was given the topic of an everyday object, I thought of a shoe. Everyday we walk in a pair of shoes and go through a lot of experiences with it, so I thought it would have been interesting if I sculpted an inflated shoe. This sculpture used to look like a normal shoe, but to make it look inflated I just reduced the size of the ankle. This sculpture not only represents a shoe, but also represents the process of experience from making a block of plaster from powder -- carving into it and making mistakes. This process also mirrors the journey I went on in my first year in SOTA. Our shoes symbolise the journeys we go through and can get dirty in the process of growing.
During our dance lessons, we usually start off with body conditioning exercises which help warm up our body. In Ballet, we learn new routines and steps, while in Movement and Improvisation, we play with movement, finding new ways to create a shape or move our body in certain dynamic qualities.
In LA, we focus more on the creation of stories rather than analysis. As our mentors told us on our first day, "In Literature they appreciate and analyse the chair, but in LA we create the chair." Because of this, we looked at techniques used by accomplished writers across three different writing styles, short fiction, playwriting and poetry. In these documents you will see how we've applied these techniques learnt in our classes, and we hope you will enjoy our writing.
Enjoy the tour of the theatre studios and see what we learn - positioning, space, and others aspects of theatre.
(piece composed and created by Majesty for an Integrated Arts project)
(Song cover by Alysia (VA), Alyssa (VA), Enya (VA) and Majesty)
SOTA's approach to educating us on the subject is really fun and interesting. The teachers are very kind and friendly which helped a lot in the learning process this year. We learned about music theory and its history. We also had many small group projects and activities to be engaged with, to express certain musical ideas and impressions which are then reflected upon in our music portfolios.
Here are some examples of the music works made by Majesty and a cover of " Lemonade " - Jeremy Passion done by him, Alysia, Alyssa and Enya who are actually in Visual Arts and yet are still doing forms of music.