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VAAG | design 2010 ©Sin Mui Chong-Martin
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| My association with plant culture holds a notion of ethnobotany, an inquiry into plant and human culture. I adopt an element of role play from an anthropological approach to that of botanical reference. This exercise engages me with the process of looking, selecting, collecting and recording. Cultivated spaces supply an abundance of unambiguous diversity of plant forms to inform my practice and facilitates a close engagement to examine collected samples which I translate into 'specimens' like drawings. The drawings are achieved through many layers of colouring with colour pencils on paper. In some instances, the drawings are cut out of the paper and presented as preserved objects in box-frames. My studies aim to reflect aspects of the human practice and desires with the use of plants as multi-dimensional representations. The reference point for my practice is a construct of nature-society relationship where I exploit plants as cultural symbols fostered to suit our milieu. |
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| info@sinmuichong-martin.com | VAAG | design 2010 ©Sin Mui Chong-Martin
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Hybrid 29x31cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Nut 15.5 x19.9cm ccolour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Blue 18.3x18.3cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Moving Out 49.5x49.5cm colour pencils & graphite on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2008
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Magnolia 61x63.5cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Desiccation 35.8x35.8cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Proteus 61.5x72.5cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Fern [detail] 21x23.9cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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Hoverfly 15x15cm colour pencils on hand cut card on paper, framed. 2007
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