Man Hei Siu (Hermann Siu)

Application Number 2020206977

Date of Submission 22nd December 2019
As I glanced at the word “yellow” I immediately associated with mustard. For me, ”wallpaper”
is an abstract filled with elements. Hence, I came up with the idea of mustard splashed Yellow symbolizes

Medium: Adobe Illustrator

everywhere when we try to squeeze the leftover mustard from the bottle. warmth, “excitement”
and change and a rose is
one of the best
representation for this
color. As roses are
emblematic for liveliness
and death. And as I read
about the “English
places” and “gardens”, I
have associated with a
triangulation artwork I
have done recently.
Medium: Adobe SketchBook

“There is a delicious
“The color is garden! I never saw such
repellant, almost a garden—large and
revolting; a shady, full of box-
smouldering, unclean bordered paths, and lined
yellow, strangely with long grape-covered
faded by the slow- arbors with seats under
turning sunlight.” them.”
Medium: Sketches
What does it mean to be
beautiful? Is this a sugarcoated
word for the ”loneness” in life?
The lexical field of confinement
is filled by words such as
“hedges”, “walls” and “gates that
lock”. When connecting all the
words together they form a sense
of limited exposure and
dreadfulness in life.
“The most beautiful place! It is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the
village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that
lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people.”
Medium: Mixed Media
As I have progressed my
reading, I seem to have
discovered the excessive
emphasis on
“individualism” due to
the repetition of “I” and
“me”. So I wonder what
could be the
implications? Is this
connecting to the
boredom of life or is it an
abstraction of the
connection between
nature and well-being?
“Out of one window I can
see the garden, those
mysterious deep-shaded
arbors, the riotous old-
fashioned flowers, and
bushes and gnarly trees.”
Medium: Adobe SketchBook Personally, I can relate to
the narrator on his
complexity of life. Where,
at times we have lost the
purpose of things we do.
Hence, the piece beside
depicts a lost of direction
and “drawing” through our
loosely defined life.
“I don’t know why I should
write this.
I don’t want to.
I don’t feel able.”
“No one but myself can help
me out of it, that I must use
my will and self-control and
not let any silly fancies run
away with me……There are
things in that paper that
nobody knows but me, or
ever will.”
My face my fate.
Sometimes only I can
understand myself; the flow
of my knowledge and the
racing in my adrenalin. And
this will never be perceived
the same with others.
Medium: Adobe SketchBook
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This piece illustrates the feeling of
”trapped” in a box, emphasizing the ups
and downs and the unprogrammed flows of
our mind

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“Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd,
unblinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where “I don’t like……I wonder…… I
two breadths didn’t match, and the eyes go all up and down suppose…… I peeled off……I
the line, one a little higher than the other.” can creep smoothly.”
 Delusion

LOST
Measured
Medium: Adobe SketchBook

Space
Pinned
“Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be. You
see I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to
watch. I really do eat better, and am more quiet than I was.”

Messkasten, Rebecca Horn, 1970

Trapped
”Life” is more filled now,
escaping the boundaries of a
”yellow wallpaper”, more
colors, more fulfillments and

Scanned
more shaped livelihood. But is
this the ultimate goal of life?
 This cube is an abstract which illustrates
the confinement in ”life”, where we are
stranded by invisible ”strings” and that
our identity is often constructed by others
instead of ourselves.
What does it feel like to be
trapped in a box? What is the
definition of our identity when
we are controlled by others?
 Man Hei Siu (Hermann Siu)
Application Number 2020206977
Date of Submission 22nd December 2019

In contrast, this cube utilizes energetic

colors to depict the opposite of a stranded
“life”; the representation of a change and
appreciate of ourselves.