Introductory Three Images

This is my final work for the HSC practical submission for Visual Arts in 2018. The medium i chose was oil paint on canvas and it measured 2.5 X 1.5 metres. It was titled "Postcards from Shanghai" and is a culmination of 70 hours of work throughout the course. It depicts a collage of various images with significance to Chinese and Australian Heritage, melded into each other and overlapping physical boundaries imposed by the canvas frames to indicate the blending of cultures.

Completed in 1875 by architect Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier, the Paris Opera functions as a vehicle of an expression of forms, facilitating the process of connection between attending visitors and the building itself. Designed in the Napoleon III style, it contrasts with the surrounding mundane buildings, exuding an atmosphere of opulence and imperial magnificence underlined by the double columnar colonnade to generate a mood of radiant content within the visitors. Embellished with poly-chromatic ornamentation, gold mosaic and gilded ornamental details, it serves as an analogy of the visitors’ luxurious clothing. Making effective use of varying materials of marble, stone and gilded bronze, Garnier achieves an arrangement of forms in marble friezes and lavish statuary depicting Greek mythology to induce an ambience of grandeur in visitors.

This is a night-time photo I took of the Banpo Bridge in January of 2020 which runs across the Han river connecting the Seocho and Yongsan districts of Seoul, South Korea. It was the first double deck bridge built in South Korea and is also the world's longest bridge fountain, containing nearly 10,000 LED nozzles which run along both sides of the bridge and pump water from the Han river to be shot out. The LED's then shine upon that water to create various illusions, most famously a rainbow display of colours.