The Artist-Mentees

The description on the right is an elaboration of the mentee’s artworks.

LHS: Farah | RHS: Rasyidah

Name: Farah

Title: The City in Me

My artwork is a structural-map of the significant places, moments that I have been through and people in my life. Piecing these events together has helped me understand myself better, and made sense of the way my life panned out.

By mapping, I come to terms with my aversion in getting to places that causes me discomfort and pain. Yet, I am also conscious of how going through that helps me to develop and live.

Metamorphosis is about recognising constant change; Being aware of my feelings and perspectives towards events in my life and the way I think of people in my life. It has made me more aware of the change within myself; My past self to the present, and the future I look towards to.

Name: Rasyidah

Title: Emboldened Through Adversities

My work reflects the ever-changing me. There are different elements used in my art that represents Me. Likewise, there are many facets to my personality that makes me the person that I am today.

The clay in particular, portrays how I am as a person; I am not very flexible but can be moulded. Once dried, I can no longer be tempered with; Adding water to soften would be in vain. Cracks, dents and scratches are inevitable through the test of time. But with a layer of paint, I can be refreshed every time.

To me, Metamorphosis is a process of being broken, picking myself up, losing “pieces” of myself, and trying to put myself back together repeatedly. My life is an amalgamation of events and changes where I am largely not in control but ironically has enabled me to be alive. But to Live is a choice, and now, I realised, maybe more than before, having and making conscious choices is the way forward.

My work is me, I am my work. The process, the thoughts, the end Product, All.