BUANASENI

Title: Arpeggio at Work
Medium: Photography
Model: Kusyairi Ariff
Photographer: Johan Ishak
Time/Date: 1999
Place of creation: S2, Shah Alam
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Magnificent view of guitar playing at work with the focus on the fingers and blurry length of frets ending with the chrytalising shines of the ends of metallic strings.





....... and so the saga begins at www.jam-the-eadgbe.blogspot.com

Title: Solitary III
Medium: Photography
Photographer: Johan Ishak
Time/Date: {Date and time not recorded}, 1999
Place of creation: Section 2, Shah Alam
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ARLIER work, Solitary and Solitary II uses charcoal and water colour as its medium. I decided to present Solitary III from photography perspective. Given the medium, obviously it's almost impossible for me to snap a photo of a bear hunting for honey (Solitary II) or a moose on a hill top (Solitary I). So, a vase would suffice - enough to manifest the melancholy of loneliness - an abandoned vase at a haunted house in Shah Alam.

Title: Beca 648
Medium: Photography
Photographer: Johan Ishak
Time/Date: {Date and time not recorded}, 1999
Place of creation: Penang
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ENANG trishaw or affectionately referred to as "beca" is an interesting way of sight seeing in the city of Georgetown, Penang. You will be able to cover every historical buildings (such as this colonial bungalow) of the strait settlement via its heritage trails in an eco-friendly mode of transportation. Made out of a bicycle and roofed 2-seater bench attached to the bicycle. Famous for young couples going for date 20 years ago and famous for old couples remembering their youth days today.

I have travelled the world and never anywhere have I seen a trishaw other than in Penang and its sister strait settlement, Melacca. Presumably, Hong Kong or Macau ought to have but to my disappointment, none appeared during my visit to those oriental places. My next bet would be Adelaide Australia given that Adelaide is a sister city to Penang having founded by the same colonial master, Francis Light. So I reckon the mayor of Penang must have donated one to the Downunder city. Anyone from Adelaide? Have you seen one down there? Do update me.

This particular photo is a row of beca but the apparent one is beca with the registration number: 648

URING the turn of the millennium, I had only 2 nephews, no nieces and none of my own. Naturally, whatever experiments I had to do on a child, you know who the victims would be. These boys are teenagers now. They will look back in laughter. Thank you Faiq and Firdaus for the early modelling talent.




















Title: The First Born Meditates
Medium: Photography
Model: Faiq Fauzi
Photographer: Johan Ishak
Time/Date: {Date and time not recorded}, 2002
Place of creation: Penang
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Title: The Second Born Weeps
Medium: Photography
Model: Firdaus Fauzi
Photographer: Johan Ishak
Time/Date: {Date and time not recorded}, 2002
Place of creation: Penang
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Title: Psychotic
Medium: Computer Graphics (Microsoft Paintbrush)
Artist: Johan Ishak
Time/Date: (Time and date not recorded) 1994
Place of creation: South Yarra, Australia
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SYCHOTIC (attached below) is just a random expression of art born out of chaotic mind in the absence of purpose. You can see there are some copy and paste pieces from my other work Lampalm Death and Use Your Illusion I & II. Some symbols from the various font type are sporadically placed and all attempt to use every colour thinkable at that moment. This piece, whilst not intelligent in its presentation, amused me nevertheless. Why? well, There are some hidden small drawings. Try to look for them... listed below:





1. A camel under a palm tree
2. A pair of lips sucking ciggy
3. A pair of eyes staring an apple
4. Two foot steps
5. A chess board with its pieces
6. A pornographic square

There are other symbols as mentioned earlier, but those are fixed images from the options available from font type rather than my own work.

This is probably my last piece of Computer Graphics to be posted in this blog. I have exhausted all my Paintbrush work extracted from 3 1/4 inch diskettes that survived 15 years of storage against fungus, de-magnetism, etc. Luckily, I managed to extract all of them - had to spend RM100 for the external diskette drive which no one ever use nowadays and no laptops nor desktops have any longer. If fact, I had to go to 10 IT shops before finding one.

Going forward, new posts on this blog would probably be predominantly oil painting, some remaining photography work which I haven't posted and some occasional poems. Working on a Computer Graphic piece requires a lot of time in front of the desktop - not a good way to start a fight with a wife who uses the desktop for work every night. I think I will enjoy doing oil painting.

So, a good way to end my contribution in the faculty of Computer Graphics, I give you "Psychotic"