Check out how Young Post’s contest winners put heart into art to win tickets to Yayoi Kusama M+ exhibition
- Drawings from the three Hong Kong students show emotions they’ve felt recently: enchantment, pressure and insecurity
- They will receive free tickets to see the works of the Japanese contemporary artist, who is known for using art to cope with mental illness
Drawing, dancing, sculpting and other creative practices can help you process your emotions. Photo: ShutterstockWe believe that art has the power to evoke emotions and create connections. Last month, we asked students to draw an emotion they had felt recently. The top submissions would receive free tickets to see the works of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the M+ museum.
It is part of a project by M+ and “Shall We Talk”, an initiative that encourages young people to speak openly about their mental well-being and offers local tertiary students free access to the exhibition and various learning activities.
We are excited to announce the three winners of our contest and to share the fantastic artwork they created.
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Audrey Hom, Logos Academy
Entrancement is an incredible feeling of delight. During my first experience with snow, I was filled with wonder and enchantment – emotions that overwhelmed me. There was an explosive feeling while I breathed in the coolness of the air. It was dazzling, to say the least, and I will never be the same!
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Lucida Lam, St Paul’s Co-educational College
Pressure, the major theme of this artwork, is a common experience among students. It is depicted here as a pair of hands hailing a melting child, shaped as a trophy. Another hand presses the tornado downwards to force everything into the child’s mouth, and colourful poppers celebrate what they have achieved, with no idea of the pressure the child is under.
I chose to depict the child as a trophy because most people believe they should push themselves to be the best, no matter what. The trophy, though it is melting, will not close its mouth simply because of its environment.
This artwork is mainly in dull, greyish colours to show how pressure not only melts us under a whirlwind of challenges, but also makes us lose motivation and stop feeling the vibrancy of life.
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Rachel Lee, Evangel College
The jumble of colours in this artwork represents many things. For instance, red represents anger, wrath, violence and hate; orange is pride and gluttony; green signifies envy and jealousy; blue shows sadness; yellow and grey reveal insecurity and misery.
The biggest play here is the insecurity: the fractured pieces of the face and the mask from which the eyes look out. They only see sadness, self-doubt and hate. The subject’s thoughts are projected all around her, portraying her anger at herself and her lack of confidence. Maybe someday she will be able to talk about it and piece her face back together.