Carolina Feng Chen
Illustrating on paper with my precious mechanical pencil have always been the way to narrate my stories. Before enrolling onto the MA course, the main focus on my creative practice involved book making and creating personal narratives to explore beyond the form and composition of context layout that handmade books can take. Coming from a multi-cultural background, the course have endowed with me an extended view on what illustration can be.
The small faces, made out of paper porcelain, have been created in memorial to the recent deaths caused during the several protests in Venezuela, the country where I spent my childhood and where my family resides. The fragility of the material is the main core of translating my response. Being distant and helpless in the chaotic political and economical situation, anxieties and worries were immersed into the making process as an act of live protest abroad, giving my most spiritual support to the brave people who died for justice. A sub-series of illustrations drawn on extremely thin pieces of paper porcelain reflect back the memories I have when reminiscing my childhood in Venezuela. They are all based on old pictures which always showed a sad-looking me in the beautiful scenarios of my hometown; however there is no recollection of happy memories in such place. as far as I'm concerned.
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