Humanportrait
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Taken April 2006 with a Fuji E-510. I took this while I was on top of a mountain in Banff during the winter. There was a little cabin, and it’s interior can be seen inside my reflection in the window. Meanwhile the outdoor activity outside the cabin is reflected around my body. Looking back at this it sorta reminds me of the painting by Edouard Manet “A Bar at the Folies-Bergere” where the world the bar tendor is looking down on is reflected in the mirror behind her. Although not intended, many stories can be interpreted from this; and whatever that maybe, I’ll leave that up to the viewer :) This work has been featured in: / Weekly Them Challenges Actually it’s a funny story; I entered my work into that group to enter it into the Cameras challenge, and it was approved only after the voting had already started. Seeing as this particular group approves work based on the challenges it’s a bit strange that happened. Well I decided to let that go; it wasn’t a big deal. But two days after the challenge closed this work got featured among with the top ten :o)
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I drew this with pencil on a piece of paper in my sketchbook. I referred to a photo of my mother as a 10 years old, and somehow it ended up looking more like me. Many people mistake this to be my self-portrait. It’s funny that it turned out this way. Many people tell me I resemble my mother, and I don’t see that so much. Even as I was looking at my mother’s past photo, I wasn’t thinking that she looked like me, but in the end I see a portrait which looks like me. I drew this during my summer after grade 11 (age 17). At the time my mother was in Japan and I was missing her. Some photo reference of my mother and I. Do we look alike? This work has been featured in: / Pencil Drawing
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medium: pencil on ordinary print paper This work has been featured in: Alphabet Soup
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Location: Tsurugaohachimangu Shrine (Kamakura, Japan)
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This was during a festival in Kamakura, Japan called “Yuigahama Sairei” During this festival God would be summoned to join the people on the Earth, and he would be carried around the city in an omikoshi. Taken with a Fuji Fuji E-510 on June 3, 2007. Featured in: / The Sisterhood
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I did this in 2003 when I was 17. This was just an attempt to draw a realistic portriat without looking at any sources; I just briefly browsed through magazines to study facial features, but there was no particular model for this drawing.
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Self-portrait. There was once a day during my internship in Japan when a co-worker came to me and said she had to leave because her grandmother had just passed away. Though my Japanese was okay, I was not familiar enough with the custom to know what to say, and I was not the best with words anyhow; even in English it is hard to know what to say in such circumstances. I said to her “cheer-up” but that was it, and she had to leave so that left little time for comforting. I thought about buying her flowers or making origami roses to give her upon her return, but I wasn’t sure if giving paper flowers would be inappropriate. So I asked my mother’s opinion and questioned whether there were certain colors or types of flowers that are more appropriate for such occasions, or things I should avoid. She said in Japan they would use white for this kind of case and if I could make white lilies, it would be appropriate. So that is what I did, and I gave the paper lilies to my co-worker when she returned. So in the end, though my words could not come through, my sorrow was well expressed. My mouth disappears in the back while the lilies light up brightly in front. My mouth is closed and silent, but the lilies made by my hands bloom a thousand words. This piece has been featured in / Colour Me a Rainbow / Light in the Darkness
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Secret is out! This is how I do it; I cast myself a really big hand then place a piece of origami on it! Okay, obviously I’ve photoshpped myself in there; I know it’s not perfect, but I really should be getting school work done right now :P. If I spend too much time I’ll fall behind ~ But hey, on the bright side; by making it an obvious edit, people won’t start thinking this is actually how I do my origami shots; I do fold tiny. This image was just for fun; and I wanted to put up a new profile pic that says something about myself. The original photo I used for this is my Born from the Cell, where I folded a crane out of a 3×3mm piece of trace paper.
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Self-portrait graphic YES! I made it in time for the challenge! So I haven’t been active very much here generally because of school but still come online to see what’s happening. When this challenge was launched I was busy with a deadline (which just ended this morning). I did this just today after getting some catch-up sleep from pulling an all nighter. The past few days I’ve been constantly staying up late until early in the morning; going home after the sun has risen. As unpleasant as it is to have a strange sleeping routine; I do get to see some beautiful morning skies :P So after a full day of working in a dry building with air ducts rattling over my head, the moment I step out after sunrise is a rather sensual moment; which inspired me to do this. The background is a photo I took in Paesteum, Italy during the term I was studying in Rome. I haven’t uploaded that here yet because I still have a lot of pics from Europe which I have to sort and decide which will go up. The scene in the bottle I took on the same day I took this /
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Self-portrait The black origami butterfly was folded from a 15×15mm piece of paper; folding it any small I thought would make it really hard to see for this shot; although one of my facebook friends said “I don’t know, go even smaller maybe” Maybe he was just used to my stuff usually being smaller; especially when seeing this scale reference I can make it smaller but I still think it is better at this size; unlike my smaller origami pieces which are usually taken with my hand, this one is further out… or is it just me feeling too lazy to take another pic? Taken with an Olympus FE-340 on August 10, 2009
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As Is. Having People in a photo is not always desirable; but I think in this case it makes the picture better. Paestum, Italy September 25, 2008 taken with an Olympus FE-220 I used this photo as my bacground for this piece: Taken on the same day as these shots:
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Self-portrait The concept first originated when I noticed some time back that my pendant and blazer almost matched in colour, and I was going to name this “The Colour of Wood”. However that idea changed as I recalled a memory flashback. So recently I was wished a friend a Happy Birthday on Facebook; then I suddenly remembered a very sad memory around the same time back in 2004. It was my first year in university and only about a month had passed. I was invited to this girl’s birthday party. I had lots of work to do and I was debating on it. But finally I decided to go as it was the time to get to know new people better. So on the day of the party I was getting ready; then suddenly I got a phone call saying that I should come home; my grandfather had just passed away… I could not believe what I was doing during the last minutes that my grandfather lived; getting ready for a party when I should have been getting work done. My grandfather lived in Japan; and my mother was going to head there to attend his funeral, so I went home for the weekend to see her off. From then on I never went to a party during school (with the exception of one which was a bit like an exhibition; or term end celebrations). The key around my neck was one I carved when I was 17 from a wood print block; which originally belonged to my grandfather. Now his ashes have become a part of the earth, growing into trees; some which later turn into manmade object like my pendant. Featured in: / The Woman Photographer
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Self-portrait I folded a rose from a sheet of acetate. I don’t remember how big that was but that does not matter since this is one of my miniatures. This rose is the same type folded in my Snow Flower, but this one is folded from a transparent sheet. There were several challenges involved in creating this piece. Folding acetate is different from paper due to different physical properties. The central twist of the rose particularly does not maintain it’s form forever in acetate; I would have it held down or take the pic before it untwists itself. I generally have a hard time with self-portraits, and it was also difficult getting both my eye and the rose in focus; and getting the right crop. In addition my eyes are dark, but I also wanted to get enough light in them for the “faded” effect without over exposing the rose. Later I also took this using the same rose:
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Self-portrait The white dove on my shoulder is folded from a 15×15mm piece of paper. I even cut an olive branch for it and glued it to its beak. Taken with Olympus FE-340 on November 18th, 2009. Lighting effects done in Photoshop. For a better idea of scale: /
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Self-portrait This was a concept I had in mind prior to the time I uploaded Lily. I folded a couple more lilies with 15×15mm pieces of papers, but as I tried out the photo, it didn’t look so good. So I bumped up the size folded more lilies, this time with 2×2cm papers, and I think it looks better. This idea was based on my Substitute for a silent mouth of Sorrow have a look at that piece to read what that one is about. But don’t get me wrong; I’m not gloomy or anything :-) just wanted to execute the idea. Taken with an Olypus FE-340 on Nov. 20, 2009
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