tintin
wulia
smileys
to lighten up my day
2007
Someone recently mentioned how she liked the humour
in my visual works. I was secretly disturbed because
most of the images I created were made out of pain.
Even when I see them now I could
remember all the pain.
But
maybe there's something that filters out
those pain and just leaves the humour out for people to see.
Maybe that filter is also the reason people often say that
I have a bubbly personality — which I don't really agree with.
I'm more of a boiling heart.
Hm.
That's bubbly as well though.
Anyway.
This
discrepancy made me decide to do things the other way around.
Instead of projecting pain in risk to be regarded as funny, now I simply
try to be funny, discreetly grabbing the chance to be regarded as painful.
On my way there, I kidnapped some smileys and
put them together to lighten up my day.
The
smileys in Smileys to Lighten Up My Day are
kidnapped,
but not stolen. The compositions are completely dependent on
the emoticons on Yahoo! Messenger website. If at one point
Yahoo! would decide to take the smileys out of their server,
this website will just be showing the shells, the broken links
to those emoticons. |