I have this strange interest of exploring the sense of home in art. I want to go back to great Canadian artists (such as the Group of Seven) but bring something innovative to the table, like the Bauhaus movement.

Style: Fusing fine art with graphic design principles
Content: exploring Canadian identity and the sense of home

I’m starting to work on a couple of canvases this winter (large scale). I started one last night after coming back from the artshow (By The Pound) @ Sleeping Giant.

It’s currently a 2 x 3 feet collage. I’m going to keep adding on more layers to build up the piece.

Ah, and of course, practicing black and white portraiture paintings…

I’m also working on a series of collage/observational sketches around Toronto! And the usual almost-daily sketchbook entries

401 Richmond Cafe:

Sidney Smith (U of T):

McCaul & College St:

Since I couldn’t really sleep last night, I decided to finish up the album cover design of my first CD.

It’s nearing the 2nd semester of 2nd year and I’m thinking… wow, I really need to push for experimenting around to reach a style by fourth year.

Sunday, sunday, sunday. I hosted the first “art in odd places” event.. (there shall be more in the spring!). We explored the empty UC building… it was interesting, but not as creepy as I thought it would be.

We found this drawing on the door that resembled my friend’s hair!! WEIRD.

I posted this incomplete track a few weeks ago.. I kind of started working on it again (out of no where!) and actually managed to finalize it during the past few days !!

I trekked over to the west end of Toronto yesterday (where Dundas meets College) and found an abandoned warehouse:

I decided to make an infographic about the process of drawing & making music, and how they can overlap.. It’s weird because when I draw, I tend to look at a list of principles that I thought were completely different from when I make music.. but looking at it carefully: they have more in common than you’d think!

This is just a general idea.. of course there are different styles that would use different principles.

On the side note:
Interestingly.. I’ve never really seen beats as holding music together until after I started incorporating it into my music. So I guess the opposite applies, to create airy sounding music: remove beats or use different samples that allow the music to float!

Yoko Ono - The Sun is Down! (Myra Phan Remix) Download

Maybe I’m not in the loop but I jumped into remixing Yoko Ono’s track without realizing it was filled with simply spoken words. It was a challenge.. I thought the original was a bit too disco-y and cheesy for my tastes, so I tried to bring it to more of an experimental/rock approach to it.. I’m not really happy with the end result though, oh well!

Listen go the original here: The Sun is Down

2 days
My “full length” track is finally complete.
It’s one of the few that I’m pretty satisfied with and a fusion of… everything I wanted?

Off topic:
I was asking my buddy for some advice about style… and it lead to browsing through fashion sites after fashion sites in the morning:

Image 1, 2: Band of Outsiders ; Image 3, 4 Agyness Deyn

Some pretty useful links:
- Trench Coat inspirations
- Band of Outsiders
- NYC Streetstyle @ TFS
- Paris Streetstyle @ TFS
- Models Streetstyle @ TFS
- Agyness Deyn Online
- Miss Pandora Fashion Blog