Still can recall the fun of drawing these bottles of oil 🙂
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Category: Oily Records
Studio One, Auckland, NZ. May, 2015.
Oily Records is a series of artwork inspired by the experience of staying with a kiwi family in an olive grove in Hoteo North and working as helper in the grove and olive factory for 6 months. The works are crafted on olive-oil-filtered papers with ink, gouache or watercolour. These papers offer an interesting natural background colour along with a unique smell. The reuse of oil filter papers was intended to imply the connection between human activities and the nature, as well as culture and environment.
The Factory (5 Images)
The noise of pressing machine. The scent of olive oil. The repetition of bottling, capping and sticking labels. The scary cracking sound of (me) breaking a new cap. Those days in the factory…
*I am revisiting my first solo exhibition “Oily Records” (2015) and rearranging the images at lohyipei.com*
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Harvest Days (5 images)
We laid the nets around the trees. The nets were extended as long as possible in between trees. We brought down olives by using the harvesters which looked like giant forks that shook automatically. Olives would fly down blindly and hit on my face, dropped into my boots and sometimes into my gloves (don’t know how it happened). We transferred the olives from the nets into the baskets and lastly they would be sent to the factory for cold-press.
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Imaginary Olive Trees (4 Images)
From growing to pruning olive trees, from harvesting olives to pressing oils, from the grove to our table, olive oil is only made possible when all the natural condition are right and all the hard work put in. With the experience of working at the grove and factory, seeing how things were done to produce a single bottle of oil, I deeply feel that nothing comes easily.
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The Grove (4 images)
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Branches of Olive Trees (4 Images)
Branches of olive trees are a great material for drawing. They looked elegant on paper.
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Animals at the Grove (5 Images)
Herds of sheep or cows were guests of the olive grove. They were from the neighbours. Occasionally, I would walk Roger in the grove. Sometimes, he would run next to me if I jog in the grove. He usually got excited when the sheep were around and he would chase after them for no reason (I guess so).
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