Morph II

By Fuen Chin

This abstract painting exaggerated a flower in the 2nd stage of morphing process.

This is one of the mixed-media painting in the Hypermorph Garden 2.0 project, supported by CENDANA Malaysia . The project promotes collaboration between non-traditional materials and traditional materials in mixed-media painting. I initiated this project by up-cycling fabric waste and yarn ends from collective fabric landfills in China and India, to create a new media for paintings.

Carefully, I reviewed the fabric waste and yarn ends. The fabrics were entangled with yarns and piled up liked a dusty cotton bulk – sitting on my desk. I have seen these wastes piled up like a mountain in many fashion industry areas in India, Cambodia and China. The fabrics are off-cuts from cutting tables and the yarn ends were the left over from weaving looms. I visited a few of the fabric landfills. I put on a face mask, a pair of gloves and collected some of the waste. Then, I separated the fabrics and yarns by picking each of them, one by one. In this process, I managed to select some of them that were in ‘good’ condition for the following up-cycling process. I had to throw away almost 40% of them that were polluted and hazardous. For the selected items, I sanitized them in a UV-C light sanitizer for 15 mins. After that, I trimmed the fabric waste into strips...

This painting is signed on the front or back and includes my Certificate of Authenticity.

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