T I M O T H Y C H E O N G
A r t i s t
Paranoid
P h o t o g r a p h y
Paranoid
P H O T O G R A P H Y,
is expressive, or maybe it is just a method of recording and creating memories, telling a story. But at the same time, the emotion of the photographer is also being captured.
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P h o t o g r a p h y
US
The aims of this piece “Until Now”, firstly, my starting point was mainly only focusing on my own relationship, that sometime will encounter conflict, tension, but at the same time we will also share joy and it also portraying that although my girlfriend and I are together for more than 2 year but we are still learning from each other, learning about each other, understand more about each other everyday, this is just like an endless lessons and that is why this piece I kept it unfinished and very rough, because this is a piece that will take a life time to finish. Also would like to communicate that we are both surrounded by each other’s love.
Secondly, is to bring out the message to let people know that many thing can be resolved through communication.As during the process we might have some different opinions but we will try to listen and understand from the others’s point of view. When we are in a relationship or with our family, because sometimes there are people that wouldn’t talk about their emotion much, they tend to hide it all the time or just keep tolerating, then which lead to end up with divorce or break up or even losing their loves one.
At last, the amount of different colours of the fabric are also equal, except the painted fabric and canvas. We tried to maintain different pieces are in equal amount is because that we would also like to communicate the importance of balance with a relationship, because from a personal experience we both experienced in a unequal relationship which were some tough times. So that we would like to also to address the importance of equality in a relationship.
FAÇADE
P h o t o g r a p h y
FAÇADE
In the exploration and weighing up of how both the Christian and the Buddhist faith portrays death, the artist finds that he inclines with the Christian opinion. Christians think of death as a process of changing forms and stepping into the next stage of our lives. The artist uses this idea to conclude his perspective on death. The concept of everlasting life seems promising as it illustrates how someone will always be by your side, which is something we can genuinely imagine. However, we cannot see this promise coming true through our own eyes and hence resembles as an empty promise.
The Buddhist faith, on the other hand, sees death in this life as a definite end, but also that people in this life will reincarnate into something physical such as butterflies or moths. The artist used ICM (Intentional camera movement) photography to express his emotions of death. When the audience examines the photo, they might only notice the c-stand and the flower, but those are the things where the artist paid no attention and emotions. Instead, the subtle mark on the photograph was what the artist left intentionally and is full of life and emotions.

