/// Hankzacle ///
2019
For me, 2018 is a very important year for me. In my two years of study in the University of the Arts London, my first priority was to discover and create and find my own language and self-identity. In the meantime, the two most important things I learned were the automatic drawing and the way of thinking (Descriptive Expression turned to Abstract Expression); because I personally suffered some negative emotions when I lived in London, so that the previous illustrations of the creative style I use to do were limited, and I feel that it was difficult to create at that time. At that stage, I was thinking about the problem, and struggle for the study. All of my works only present by sketches for a long time.
For example, Siren, an illustration that I drew shortly after arriving in London. I clearly remember that when I was studying in the language class, a classmate asked me a question. He said, why did you want to use such a cute style to express a sad story? What I felt at the time was that the beautiful appearance attracted the audience before they could continue to watch my illustrations in a deep. If someone can understand the meaning of hidden in my work they were are my confidants, if not, it does not really matter for me.
In fact, (Siren. 2017) it was an illustration that talked about the noise. The siren of ambulances was too many and swirling in my mind every day that made me afraid of death at that time. When I looked at this work over and over again, did its line give the atmosphere of the picture seem too weak? or Does its content do not convey directly anxiety and restlessness what I care about? What a message did I want to convey to the audience? What was my feeling? Was it to describe the phenomenon or to create a sense of an unsafe atmosphere? If the atmosphere was not enough, how can I use lines or colors to make people feel what I feeling, and can be opposite and attractive?
Siren. 2017
Today, I going to show some of my works I learned during the Master course at the LCC. I will share it and summarize my reflection. What I hope is that by reviewing and sorting out, I can see my own shortcomings and progress and to be better in the following career. Writing these thousands of words may seem obscene for me, but those sincere words are the most valuable and helpful than others. Doing this is not for others but myself. Thanks for all the people who help me in the two years of studying in UAL.
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Term 01
Illustrative Practice and Visual Media
Dec.2017
The Memory of the Suitcase
For the first project of the semester, we cooperated an animation individual for the Museum of London in London. What was interesting about this course was that each student selects an old object from tens of thousands of exhibits to research and shares the story behind it. At first, starting from drawing every item you see in the museum, and then did some initial researches and preliminary experimental creations by different forms and different media. After a week, we need to pick out our favorite object continues to do a second large amount of researches and development. finally, creating a 20s animation in two weeks.
The object I chose was a suitcase in World War II. The story of this mini animation included three parts: the evil of war, the escape of people and the memory of people. Although the war has passed, it has a lasting impact on people. This was a simple little description of the history, a 30-second animation that arouses people a deep thought. For me who have never been done animation before, it was very satisfying with this animation even though it was only 30 seconds;
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Term 2
Collaborative Unit
Feb.2018
Artefact Magazine
Artefect Magaine, London past , present and future 2018
During the course, we not only studied from the tutor but also had some projects cooperating with clients; This time, I was commissioned by Lcc Artefact magazine to design the cover of the magazine. The cover content is about London's past present and future. Here was a simple brief I got:
After one week ...
I choose a continuous UK street scene and split it in half to show the difference between the past and the present(and some future). The present and the past of the United Kingdom are totally different. In the past, there were horse-drawn carts and old-fashioned shops which supplied only some daily foods on sides of a London street. However, London city is totally changed now. The problems of Women’s social status, Racial discrimination, LGBTQ and Black lives matters are much better now comparing to the past.
Back and front of the magazine
After that, under the help of Simon, I have done a three-color screen printing at the LCC printing studio. It took me for two weeks for making a film, exposing and making a frame to print.
London past, present, and future,
丝网印刷, 三色,420mm×594mm, A2, 20版，2018
（ Animal Farm）
This was a cover design organized by the course for Participating in the Penguin book competition. Animal Farm is one of George Orwell's best works and is an anti-Utopia political allegory. The story tells that a group of animals on the farm have successfully carried out a “revolution”, driving their human owners out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, the clever pigs, eventually usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more dictatorial and totalitarian rulers than the human family.
Illustration : Pigs in Hiding ？2018
The way of automatic drawing started from this time. In the course of how to do visual research, William gave us 20 minutes to quick draw from memory. I remember I went out for a cigarette for a while, then I back I quickly drew around 20 different sketches in only 5 minutes. From this time I began to realize that I could combine each to be a good one instead of just focus on one perfect sketch.
Republic of pig, 2018
Utopia , Sculpture, 2018
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Term 3
Expanded Practice & Personal Voice
Voices from darkness /Hankzacle
Those illustrations describe the ordinary mystery of everyday life and explore the fear in an uncertain feeling. The topic base on my own six-story in daily life which were shown by a series of graphic novels.
I began to use my own experience to express the mystery of daily stories. Loneliness and my own thinking are one of my sources of inspiration. In graphic novels"The voice from Darkness", I created some narrative stories with a simple form of poetry by exploring the everyday objects in life. The feeling of fear, it is abstract and difficult to narrate, but it is real and exist in people 's brain. This fear is a fear of the unknown and it assumes that it should not have occurred.
The Voice from Darkness, RISO Print, A2, 2018
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When the second term passed, I seemed to realize a problem. All of my artworks were based on describing facts or describing an event itself as to telling a story. Indeed, the purpose of the Illustration is to present a narrative that replaces the text in the form of a visual language. However, too much description made me ignore my perceptions and The feelings of the objects and the events toward me. It is true that the world of feeling was hard to describe. For example, when you want to show It's pretty cold today, then you draw a wind or write the word 'very cold', but the way of doing this doesn't make sense to the audiences as it cannot make them feel the truth of the wind and the feeling of the wind itself.
When I realized this problem, my creative thinking gradually shifted from simple description to exploring personal feelings. How do I express my feelings? For me, my feelings are very subjective, abstract, artistic, and cannot be described in words. Xu Bing also said that the most valuable part of visual art is that it cannot be described in words. It is because of what the language cannot describe that the value of art can exist. For me, the feeling is different to everyone. It was difficult to describe that it can be very abstract and to be real.
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June. 2018
Off Beauty／Personal Voice
Color experiment
Use rich colors to express hidden and opposing relationships (abstract emotions)
Talk to everybody, Wood sculpture, 2018
July 2018
Nes Artist Residency in Iceland
Nes Artists,
Reshape what I feel from the artists who are abstract and real to me in subjective ideology
Another project : Barber show in the wind, Naomi &Hank, 2018
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Term 4 Final Major Project
Dec.2018
University of the Arts London
（Illustration &Visual Media）
My graduate show
Resilience & Shadows
Resilience and Shadows both are two series of works about potential dangers in the city as well as my graduate work at the University of the Arts London. The work is based on my personal experience that I was robbed and beaten by 7 people in February 2018 in London. At that time I was hardly able to use any words to describe the feelings about the issue I suffered as it was abstract. By doing so, I created those works from the inner and the external of in an abstract way. I hope the work can be a visual language to convey to audiences.
Resilience 2018 x hankzacle
The Resilience (2018) series is presented in four sets of sculptures, depicting the events themselves in 4 aspects. The work was shown based on two abstract characters in a scene of killing around the event's exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution.
We often said that 'Beautiful appearances often hide uncertain dangers'. For me, the sharp line, simple forms, color mix, random and irregular, which close to feeling in that situation. It is full of power, fierceness, entanglement, chaos, and irony and dazzling.
Resilience \ Wood sculpture, 2018
Shadows x hankzacle
Shadows (2018) explores a series of spiritual experiences on the victim after trauma in urban life, such as repetition, flashback, on guard, strike back, nightmares, dissociation, numbness, etc. The post-traumatic disorder is like a shadow that appears, hides, and repeats in my heart. As Jim Giorgi (1993)in his ‘Release Shadow ’said, ‘The shadow is like a dark corner of the basement where I have stored all of the objects in the house that I don’t want or like anymore but are not quite ready to throw away, It hides there visible and forgotten. ’It appears in the dark corners of the city and hidden in the people's fragile minds.
On time，60cmX60cm Print, 2018
Flashback，60cmX60cm Print, 2018
Ambiguity，60cmX60cm Print, 2018
In control，60cmX60cm Print, 2018
Death，60cmX60cm Print, 2018
Real and Unreal，60cmX60cm Print, 2018
London College of Communication, 2018
Work in the process，Acrylic on canvas，60cmx 60cm ,2018
Some sketches I did in 2018
Check my personal website to see all the works:
https://cargocollective.com/hankzacle
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