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ARCH1101 INTRODUCTORY TASK

Image 1: Your Best Creative Work

Portrait of Jess and Geoffrey, 2017
While simple in its realism and composition, and simple in subject, I still consider this one of my most creative works. It’s significant to me because it marks the realisation of a personal goal, to learn how to use oil paint and paint a portrait of someone close to me. This is the first and only time I’ve ever used the medium and therefore its creative process was extremely experimental but also incredibly fun. The colours I used were also fairly unconventional compared to my usual work.
I met this friend at a pivotal point in my life and unfortunately a very tough one in hers; I wanted to paint her with someone who makes her very happy.

Image 2: A Great Piece of Architecture

Beichuan Earthquake Memorial Museum
The National Earthquake Memorial located in Sichuan Province of China was commissioned by the government in memory of over 70,000 lives lost to the 2008 earthquake in the area and millions more who were affected by the natural disaster. 

What marks this museum as significant is not only the circumstances under which it was built, but that its construction was integrated into the site, transforming the aftermath of the ruptured landscape into a manmade structure whose design and technical improvements were directly informed by its location and site's history.

Image 3: Something Beautiful

Snowing in Fussa,  2016
This image was taken on January 18, the very last day of my family trip to Japan in 2016. I had never seen snow before this day (I’d had been anticipating it the whole trip) and I remember clearly my grandma waking my sisters and I in the early morning to show us the beginnings of snowfall — and then later that morning taking this photo before leaving to head back home to Australia.
This is the view from the front door of my grandparents’ home in Fussa, Tokyo, my mothers hometown, where I like to think she saw the first snow of each winter when she was young. 



 "My Shakotan styled Ford Mustang, in a whole new world." Khyzl Saleem (@the_kyza on Instagram): hybrid, evolve, alive

 Mountain & Moon, MAIKO Earrings (Audrey Allen and Ashton Cameron, https://www.mountainandmoon.com.au/): echo, fall, delicate

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 Trent Jansen Studio (https://trentjansen.com/): collision, merge, fragmented




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