Coping mechanisms SERIES

an interactive sound feng shui art piece on copinG

+Hand illustrated riso print zine

+companion interactive sketch EXperiments

Live Site: https://coping-mechanisms.glitch.me/

Link to live performance here.

Asking an 8-ball for answers, staring at my canker sore, a self portrait as a productivity cyborg, a home office. My coping mechanisms are the focal piece for this sound feng shui experience. As you move objects around the space, my stories in these scenes will sing a composition for you.

Please select “Allow” to use camera for interactive sketch.

 

During the pandemic, I, like many others, fell into traps of loneliness and despair. So, throughout quarantine, I drew tens of psychedelic illustrations with paper and pencil of my daily events, thoughts, or objects surrounding me. And as the world started to normalize into a somewhat equilibrium, I finally gasped for air and reflected on these sketches I’d developed over the solitudal year. The resounding theme from these works were: coping mechanisms. My illustrations were documents of how in the face of external and internal confrontations, ways to cope. Ways I coped. Asking an 8-ball for answers, staring at my canker sore. A self portrait of myself as a productivity machine. My love for cooking.

 

“What is embarrassment, what is rejection to those without a will to live. And so, I live more boldly. Say what I mean, I don't have much time not to. I dance how I feel. I eat what I want. I make art the way I need. I make time for what matters. I no longer have anything other than the upwards of simply wanting to live again.”

Excerpt from zine

Drawing Process

All sketches were first drawn by hand with mediums of pastel, color pencil, charcoal or pen. They were photographed or scanned and then uploaded to Procreate.

I traced and recolored these sketches in Procreate using a duotone color palette. Organized into a Zine format, it was printed with the Paper Punch Press Zine Club.

Later, I created a companion interactive sketch using p5.js with PoseNet. In the future, I’d love to elaborate on this work and create a series of interactive companions to these illustrations.

 

The Code

 

Tags:  #illustration #interaction #p5js