Mingchi Shao Will-way of seeing & talking patterns
For the “way of seeing” section, I paid attention to things around me and the photos I’ve taken during the gallery visit recently.
The first 4 paintings are anything that I saw from my room, after I sketched the shape from one thing, I will move to the next thing I saw no matter what shape and what angle. There is no subject for them. I scanned them into photoshop and duplicate them into patterns.
I found my charging cables and my shoelace are also twisted, so I mixed them together into one drawing, sketched them with color pencils in different shades, and then duplicate them into the skeleton look. Inspired by that, I placed yarns and strings on a paper randomly, glued and sewed firmly. This experiment was used as the background of a pattern, above that, I layered a simple face pattern cut from a magazine.
Some of it is just playing with photoshop. I’m not familiar with it, so taking this opportunity to explore different effects. What I should try more next time would be 3D experiments but not only working on flat paper. I wasn’t inspired at first when I decided to make mix-media work, this is because I wasn’t thinking of it as a process. As I was working on the charging cable, I found out this is the part that I could develop.