Odyssey Self Reflection - Congkak / Faculty of Art and Design UiTM Cawangan Sarawak

My idea was of a childhood memory related to playing congkak which then inspired me to create artworks comprised of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. I tried to demonstrate my point of view about congkak that implied the reducing interest among people in playing this traditional game. The elements and principles infused in the artworks included repetition, highlight to the form of 3D, warm and cool colour, balance of the form, symmetrical sides of the object. I used mixed techniques for printmaking artwork which were intaglio and stencil, whereas for my painting, among the materials I used were acrylic, canvas and newspaper. I personally liked materials of nature collected from the environment for my sculpture such as woods, boards, rubber tree seeds and rattan, while the selections for the drawing materials involved colour pencil, oil pastel, artline pen as well as plywood.