DESIGN PRINCIPLES - PROJECT 2
Week 10(28/10/19)-Week 12(11/11/19)
Alfie Koh Chen Fong(0340310)
Design Principles Project 2
INSTRUCTION
Project 2
For our project 2, we need to explore some spots studying various visuals, sound, smells, etc to make a self-portrait. For this self-portrait project, we need to ask ourselves:
1.Who am I? 2. How has culture affected me? 3 How do others see me? 4. How do I see myself?
We were encouraged to go for a mixture of traditional and contemporary places. So I went to China Town which is in Kuala Lumpur. When I reached china town, you can see there is a lot of stalls and I heard a lot of voice that asking people to buy their goods. I can said that, this is the culture of my hometown, we oftenly call a place like this "pasar" which means market. China town was decorated by a lot of Chinese lanterns, you can feel the color of Chinese. Also, you can see different races are selling goods. So I take some photos that show mixture of different cultures in a place.
When I looking at this place, I suddenly have the answers of that 4 four questions.
1. I am a Malaysian
2. The cultures of Malaysia make me looks like not only a Chinese, I am a Malaysian.
3.& 4. Either others or myself, I look like a mixture of cultures. I can celebrate different festival with different races in Malaysia. I am not only a Chinese, not Malay or Indian, I am a pure Malaysian.
For this project, I decided to make a self-portrait that forms by these photo I take.
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| The lanterns show the atmosphere of Chinese |
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| Malaysia is a tropical country, so you can find a lot of fruits in Malaysia. |
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An old woman is pulling her beg. At the behind, you can see an interesting sight is an old man
is selling Malay traditional cake. This photo shows that how different cultures impact each others. |
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| A man is selling drinks for tourists. |
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Soya milk is a very famous and traditional drink in Malaysia, I think you can find soya milk
in any side of Malaysia.Oftenly, sweet soya pudding is selling with soya milk. |
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| Usually, Malaysian buys the newspapers from the little stalls like this. |
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Bak Good Teh is a Chinese cuisine, boiling pork with tea and some
traditional Chinese medical materials. It is famous in Klang. |
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| A man and his wife are selling healthy drinks. |
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| Chinese loves Malay foods also! |
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| The huge decoration in the middle is the Malay traditional kite which called Wau Bulan in Malay. |
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| The night sight of China town |
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| IMG 1.01 Left side represents Malay, center side represents Chinese and left side represents Indians. For the remaining sides mean the small number of races in Malaysia such as Iban, Kadazan etc. |
source nutrition of my hair.
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| IMG 1.02 |
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| IMG 1.03 The stalls represent my hair |
I use Chinese lantern as the eye of left side and Malay traditional kite(Wau bulan) as the right side of my eye. When I change the effect of lantern and kite to hard mix, lantern become red and kite become gree. These color have auspicious meaning in each cultures.(IMG 1.04) Also, I use Indian oil lamp as my nose so I can show the main three races of Malaysia.(IMG 1.05)
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| IMG 1.04 Making my eyes |
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| IMG 1.05 I placed Indian oil lamp at the side of nose |
Lastly, I add a woman on the bottom middle. The reason is I wan to show that how a person enjoy her life by living in this multiracial country.(IMG 1.06)
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| IMG 1.06 The completed work |
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| JPEG of my self-portrait |
After discussing with lecturers, she thinks that my idea is good. But the composition is messy. She said the line of the face should be removed also I need to adjust the composition of the images at the top.
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| IMG 1.07 I remake a better face with eye brow |
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| IMG 1.08 Adding background |
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| IMG 1.09 I use Chinese traditional lantern, Malay kite and Indian oil lamp as my hair |
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| IMG 1.10 Also, I use them as my eyes and nose |
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| IMG 1.11 I added the woman that I describe above as the ending |
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| IMG 1.12 Project 2 JPEG, I am a mixture of cultures "Malaysian" |
I change my self-portrait and make it look easier so I can express the meaning easily rather than the complex and messy work.
FEEDBACK
Lecturer said she didn't realise there is a face in the middle after I explained. She said the final work is better than the previous one. Also, the face at the middle is obvious.
FEEDBACK
Lecturer said she didn't realise there is a face in the middle after I explained. She said the final work is better than the previous one. Also, the face at the middle is obvious.
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