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See all the wonderful things Hunain Khan has made

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The Identity Umbrella of a Personal home

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See all the wonderful things Isabelle Krempel has made

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See all the wonderful things Theo Techaphan has made

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See all the wonderful things Theo Techaphan has made

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See all the wonderful things Hunain Khan has made

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See all the wonderful things Isabelle Krempel has made

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Losing my Mind' was inspired by Casey Baugh’s charcoal pieces. I wanted to create a visual representation of what it feels like to me when I get overworked and overstressed. I wanted to use Baugh’s messy/ sketchy technique for the background of the piece to help create a sharp and powerful feeling. The gears falling off of the skull is all the pieces that the brain needs to function, which is what inspired the name Losing My Mind

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Home and Native Land was inspired by my grandmother. She is an artist that is amazing at collages and recommended I do a collage for my final piece. All of the newspaper clippings are something terrible that has happened to Native Americans, like the residential schools and the sixties scoop.

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War was inspired by a person that I had found on the social media app tiktok where he was making a sword, shield and axe. The way that this fits in with my theme is that it is physical conflict, that being war.

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Abandoned was inspired by Nicholas Gustafsson technique of making the edges of the subject look like paint splatters.  I chose Abandoned because of the way that the skull is cracked, there are some missing and chipped teeth, the jaw is gone and there is a raven on top of it. Ravens, to me, represent a sadness and an abandonment which is perfect for the type of artwork I am trying to do

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Abandoned was inspired by Nicholas Gustafsson technique of making the edges of the subject look like paint splatters.  I chose Abandoned because of the way that the skull is cracked, there are some missing and chipped teeth, the jaw is gone and there is a raven on top of it. Ravens, to me, represent a sadness and an abandonment which is perfect for the type of artwork I am trying to do

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Alcohol ink, Henna and Gold leaf on canvas

60.96 cm x 91.44cm

“In the End” was rooted from the aspect of my journey where I want to become more connected to my religion of Islam. I choose this quote as it is about equality, a topic which I thought would be a good place for me to start learning from as I already have strong feelings about. The background is a beautiful abstracted sea of vivid colours which signifies the beauty of this religion and how learning about it can enrich my life.

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Size:  18 x 26 inch

Medium: Black paint with gold ink on a canvas

This piece was inspired by Yelena James, an abstract artist using lines only to create amazing art. Tormentor is inspired by my Filipino traditional and cultural of Ethnic groups. They tattoos their body by sacrificing their skin as a source of accomplished and ranks. They believe its a gift or bless from god and also a sign of their strength as warrior. Each pattern had a meaning by their personality as brave warrior.

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My exhibition is rooted from my experiences in the past year and a half. I wanted to showcase my personal experience during these strange times due to the significant impact it had on me. This has allowed me to start my journey of self-growth and development which is what I explore in my body of work, focusing specifically on the exploration of different aspects of self.

Due to the closure of my school my exhibition is a virtual experience which is arranged in the same manner it would have in regardless of the circumstances. The order of the artworks is in the same order in which they were created as this allows for the viewers to be taken through the steps and stories of my journey. In the middle is the largest piece entitled Blossom it is placed there as it signifies the most influential aspect of this journey which showcasing the creation of an environment in which growth can flourish.

There are two factors I considered while deciding which pieces should be a part of my exhibition. The main one being that I chose the artworks I was passionate about because I felt that they contained larger, more prominent self connections. I sometimes have difficulty expressing myself through words, so wanted to use this opportunity to express all the things I can't express through words thus, I chose the artworks that I felt did a good job of this because it allows for my intention to be further expressed.

My intention with this body of work is to inspire; inspire people to care about themselves, taking that time to learn and grow into their true selves, allowing themselves to blossom in their lives.

The overall concept of each artwork is stemmed from an aspect of self that has had a significant impact on me. Throughout my art career, I have used acrylic paint because it has been easy but this journey is about trying out different new things to find what works for me and gaining new experiences. Thus, this was the perfect opportunity to explore mediums, techniques, and styles throughout my artworks. Specifically, in the piece entitled Two Worlds, I used henna to create all the artworks on canvases because henna was rooted from my Pakistani culture which allowed me to showcase the aspect of my journey where I wanted to become closer to my cultural roots.

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Pink Cute Chic Vintage 90s Virtual Trivia Quiz Presentations

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Acrylic paint and Henna on canvas and photographs

167.4 cm x 167.4 cm

“Two Worlds'' was a self-inspired piece rooting from a photoshoot I did about the idea of self, inspiring me to want to further depict this idea in relation to the journey of self that I was on. This piece is a combination of photographs that are based upon the idea of an 'indirect selfie' along with a connection to my Pakistani culture through a multitude of Henna artworks; depicting the aspect of my journey of self in which I wanted to become closer to my cultural roots.

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Exhibition Title: Immigrating to Canada from Thailand.

My body of work first started with the concept of expression. While creating different artworks, I found
that my exploration of expression gradually shifted to the concept of identity, and more specifically my
own. I began to notice my art tended to focus on my mental journey of immigrating to Canada from
Thailand and the effects it had on my identity and the cultural shock of moving. In my exhibition I
wanted to visually show how immigrating to Canada felt from my perspective, what impacts it had on
my identity, and the new way I look at the environment around me, because I’ve embarked on this life
new experience.

All of my exhibition pieces are photography based, since photography has had a huge impact on my
identity as I have been exposed to photography all my life, due to my parents both being photographers.
In my exhibition most of my images are captured using macro photography, because it allows me to
capture images from a new unique perspective, which is a symbol I want to convey in my artworks
since immigrating to Canada has allowed me to see my environment from a new unique perspective. In
my body of work I have captured my images in a controlled studio setting that allows me to control
what the audience gets to see. However, I have also incorporated photo series that have been taken
outside of the studio setting, such as the “New Canadian Environment” and “The Triptych Individual
Identity” series, which allows the viewer to see aspects of my journey I have discovered about myself
that is directly linked to Canada. All of the artworks I have chosen have strong symbols that represent
aspects of Thai and Canadian culture as well as representing new aspects of myself I have discovered.
The artworks are displayed starting from the left to right. The placement tells a unifying story about the
journey I went through when moving to Canada from Thailand, starting a series that represents the
culture shock I felt when I moved to a series that ends with the representation of me coming to terms
with my situation and reflecting upon the experience of immigrating to Canada. The overall vision of
my exhibiting artworks symbolises the exploration of my own identity regarding the journey of
immigrating to Canada.

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Acrylic paint and Embroidery Floss on canvas

60.96 cm x 76.2 cm

“Blossom” is a Roy Lictensien style portrait surrounded by embroidered flora. The portrait was created in this style as it matched visually and conceptually as it captured the emotion of the journey of self that I wanted in a simplistic manner. I took elements that I had strong connections to me and that I liked visually from previous artworks and developed a single large piece that signifies the creation of an environment in which personal development can flourish.

Berman, Avis, et al. Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, n.d., lichtensteinfoundation.org/.

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Acrylic paint and Embroidery Floss on canvas

30.4 cm x 40.6 cm each

“Power” was created to educate about what feminism is trying to achieve, being a widespread movement that affects a large part of the world, myself included. Each piece is based on an aspect of what feminism is striving to achieve. The embroidery is inspired by my grandma, a strong woman whose passion for sewing inspired me to stitch the line art; to signify the impact she had on my journey of self specifically, on the importance that passion has in our lives.

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Size:  18 x 26 inch

Medium: Digital
This piece was inspired by a Filipino artist named Vicente Manansala , famously known for his cubist painting and illustrators. He develop a techniques called transparent and translucent that he  uses on his painting. I research a lot about my culture and learn some few things by focusing more on what’s important.  I choose the Philippines eagles which considered as the national bird because of its unique features. Its eyes is really sharp, symbolize brave and strength, also known as the lord of the sky.

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Size: 16x 20 inch

Medium: Acrylic
This piece was inspired by a British artist name Anita Nowingska, her painting is inspired . This painting has a cultural and historical meaning because Hibiscus also called as Gumamela in my culture. The Gumamela that grow in the Philippines is a called Ancestor, a very old hybrid which make Gumamela were in Philippines island  before humans, also known as the oldest inhabitant on the island that makes hibiscus a precious part of Philippines history.

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Medium: Watercolor and Gold ink
Size: 14 in x 18 in
This piece was inspired by Margaret Morales an artist that draw her love of nature and culture into a beautiful fantasy fairytale like style of painting. I wanted to convey this idea into my own with the love of my Asian cultured and traditions with a little bit of mythology and story behind it. Enenra is a Japanese demon composed of smoke and darkness, emerge from the fire and they take a human shape or form  but only those with pure heart can see.

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Curatorial Rationale

Title of Exhibition: So now?

The body of work I created explores many concepts but does not run away from the overarching theme, the passing of time. Throughout the exhibition, I made use of different photographic processes and techniques to depict concepts I had chosen; the photographs symbolize the passage of time in the individual exhibition piece's context. I took great inspiration from the writer, Charles Bukowski; his writings and especially his tirade against the 9' to 5' impacted me greatly. The personal experiences I have lived through and the conflicts that I had to respond to also became fuel to the machine creating the exhibition's concepts.

The sixteen photographs are the amalgamation of the works I thought were the best fitting for the theme. To select those sixteen pieces, I explored different ideas, and as mentioned previously, I used other photographic processes and techniques to achieve the finalized products of the ideas explored. Through the layer-masking tool, I made use of a cloning process that can be seen in the man, i hate it here series, and in the last photograph of the series, i made use of a simple layering, which i also used in the Ghosts photographs. Because of my want to depict motion blur, Ghosts was taken using a slow shutter speed, which I also used in Lights. The criteria I set to consider a photograph "good," was one, how well they worked together with the other exhibition pieces, and, two, how much thought was put into the concept of the photo. Some photos were discarded because they lacked the depth I sought to achieve.

I hoped for the exhibition to be in-person, which, unfortunately, it will not, as the school board decided to migrate to online learning until further notice.  I chose to organize the exhibition layout in a bright to dark order, putting the most colourful pictures at the start and the darkest ones last. The scheme for the organization was an aesthetic and philosophical choice, as the first photo relates to nature and the incredibly drastic changes that happen in the change of seasons, the passage of time in nature is something beautiful, vivid, and the pieces that come after are more gloomy, they are related to the effects of time on humans, they are more melancholic, dark, repetitive.

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“Ghosts”

Photography

Kodak Professional Endura Premier Paper

Dimensions 20 x 30" x 2

In this piece, I wanted to depict the concept of memories. In this piece's context, ghosts are memories, grief, anger; they represent the things we want to see or have already seen, a collection of the things that happened or will happen to us. I made use of a slow shutter speed to capture the subject's movement; by doing that, I created the "ghosts."

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“Outta Time”

Photography

Kodak Professional Endura Premier Paper

Dimensions 12 x 18"

In this piece, I explored the concept of fragility and instability. When taking these photos, I wanted to depict the fragility of us. The instability of the stack of mugs represents ourselves and how we struggle to find a balance that may only last for a brief moment.  The moody lighting serves to illustrate the grimness of the theme developed in the photo.

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“there goes a perfect donut.”

Photography

Kodak Professional Endura Premier Paper

Dimensions 16 x 20" x 6

In this series, I explored the concept of loss. I wanted to depict the process of losing. I chose to use a donut because, much like donuts, people come in a wide variety of sizes, flavours, colours, fillings, and toppings. The burning donut represents the idea of loss, a once-perfect memory, person, object, reduced to nothingness. To capture the fire, I covered the donut in a flammable substance, and when I introduced the fire to the equation, the donut would begin burning, giving me a short amount of time until the fire vanished.

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“Lights”

Landscape photography

Kodak Professional Endura Premier Paper

Dimensions 18 x 24" x 3

In this series, I wanted to explore the idea of movement in time. Through a slow shutter speed and chaotic movement, I tried to depict the feeling of overwhelmedness and chaos that time generates. Time rushes us to live, work, try, and the thought of running out of time crushes us.

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“man, i hate it here”

Landscape photography

Kodak Professional Endura Premier Paper

Dimensions 12 x 18" x 3

In this series, I explored the concept routine. I wanted to depict the struggles one goes through daily, and in each photograph, you'll see a part of the Gas Mask man's everyday life. The mask represents the identity we don't show to society, our inner selves. I made use of a collage technique to layer the subject many times, cloning the subject.

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“Mess - Seasons”

Landscape photography

Kodak Professional Endura Premier Paper

Dimensions 20 x 30"

In this piece, I wanted to explore the concept of time and how seasons dramatically change the environment. I used a design that divides the photo into different sectors using rectangular shapes; through the rectangular shapes, I wanted to depict the idea that time passes linearly.

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The Identity Umbrella of a Personal home

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The Identity Umbrella of a Personal home

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Photography

8X12 inches

Harry Callahan’s Spotlight on Water photograph and Visarute Angkatavanich’s Siamese Fighting Fish
series influenced my compositional style and inspired me to create a series based on objects that depict
identity around my home. I decided to focus on objects with faces exploring different social and
cultural identities from different places around the world that have all found a place under one roof
symbolising the different experiences that make up who we are.

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The Identity Umbrella of a Personal home

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Photography

10X14 inches

Duane Michals’ sequence of Andy Warhol and Things are Queer inspired me to rethink the way I
present my photo series. This series explores the unique individuality of each of my subject’s identity,
while only being able to see three sections of the subject’s face: the left eye, chin, and right section of
the subject's forehead. The concept behind this project is to capture my family member’s individual
identity unique to the viewer.

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Photography

6X6 inches

Inspired by photographer Visarute Angkatavanich and his Siamese Fighting Fish series, my series
showcases my Great Grandad’s World War II medals incorporating Angkatavanich’s use of negative
and positive space. This series glances into my family’s history and a tribute to my Great Grandad and
my family’s involvement in the military. Like Angkatavanich work, this series showcases the medals in
an elegant manner, respecting my family’s sacrifice, using studio lighting and macro photography.

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The Canadian and Thai Cultural Contrast and Similarities series

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The Canadian and Thai Cultural Contrast and Similarities series

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Photography

8X12inches

Aaron Siskind’s attention to detail and texture in his photography inspired me to create a series
composed around texture and symbolism. The series compares and contrasts different aspects of
Canadian and Thai culture by exploring everyday aspects of life. However, the goal of this series is to
show that in the difference between the cultures at the surface level, the similarities are in the concept
behind cultural practices.

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The Canadian and Thai Cultural Contrast and Similarities series

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“Culture, folklore, religion, history, and tradition of Thailand, through the eyes of a series of coins from 1911 - 2019”

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“Culture, folklore, religion, history, and tradition of Thailand, through the eyes of a series of coins from 1911 - 2019”

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Photography

8X12 and 20X24 inches

This project was inspired by Levon Biss’ philosophy behind his Microsculpture series, bringing a
unique perspective and educating others on things neglected in everyday life. My series takes Thai coins
and transforms them into a catalogue, creating a glimpse into the Thai culture, history, and society.
Much like Biss, created the series to educate others about Thailand, and to shed light on my heritage
and background.

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“Culture, folklore, religion, history, and tradition of Thailand, through the eyes of a series of coins from 1911 - 2019”

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Photography

8X12 inches

Inspired by Ai Weiwei’s philosophy behind the art making process, I created a series that encapsulates
my mental journey of immigrating to Canada. The series focuses on the process in which the images
were created as the images were taken when I felt extremely stressed. The camera has become a tool to
create peace in times of stress due to the cultural shock. The images are framed and composed to
envoke peacefulness because in the process of making these images I created peace my own peace.

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Exhibition

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Acrylic on canvas

50.8 cm x 70 cm

“Infinite Impressions'' is directly inspired by Claude Monet’s theory of capturing impressions of a moment, and the ways light can be explored throughout. Brush strokes are crucial to the lighting of the pieces because they hold the power to choose which colours get to peek through the layers of paint. My intention is for the piece to manifest a sense of infinity in itself, because the layers only come to an end when the impression is done. Nature is infinite in that sense too.

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Acrylic on canvas

91.5 cm x 122 cm

“Pigeon Lake” was directly inspired by Franklin Carmichael’s portrayal of Canadian nature; both an artist and a subject matter close to my heart. Located just outside Sudbury, the lake depicts a calm summer afternoon, host to some of my favourite camping memories. The simple and straightforward scenery shows an ordinary day at an ordinary time; nature untouched by mankind is continuous and undemanding. Nature is the epitome of beauty, and working with acrylic paints helps me to make this clear.

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Ink and coffee on paper

28 cm x 35.5 cm (x3)

Moments in time can be turned into memories immortalized through art, which is what I try to convey through “The Memory of Trees”. This work features my great grandparents who are standing alongside familiar trees that I drew en plein air. They are drawn onto an old sheet of music, because just like drawings, music can immortalize moments in time. This ensures that their memory, and the memory of trees, will be forever eternal. It is a reminder and a memory of the roots that bring me here today.

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Oil on canvas

40.1 cm x 50.2 cm (x4)

“Seasons of the Sky” was inspired by the abstract expressionism of “Les Automatistes” and Erin Hanson’s impressionistic use of bright colours. I wanted to create something relating to the yearly cycle of seasons and how the same sky can undergo many changes within that cycle. To do this, I arranged the paintings in a clockwise cycle beginning with Spring. I wanted to capture the way the skies felt instead of how they appeared, and that use of emotion is the main motive for my abstract work.

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Photography

15.2 cm x 20.3 cm (x5)

The “Evolutionary Series” attempts to showcase the evolution of photography throughout time, and how nature will always stay the same despite the ever-changing flow of the modern world. Even though time wares off the rural warmth and transitions into urban coldness, the purity of nature is constant. The series is directly inspired by Ansel Adams’ aesthetic appreciation and concern for our natural world, as well as the purity that his photography delivers.