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I hope that one day I will be able to draw like her because I have never been good at drawing with pen. I get panicky because pen is permanent while pencil can be erased, but hopefully after working with colour pencils (semi-permanent) for a year now, I will have the confidence to draw like this. I hope that after I have seen more and more of her works, I can get the proportions right, and eventually create characters on my own.

I've always wanted to invent a character to help my art works flow from one piece to another, as if like a comic.. I feel like a character can help you express emotions better, with speech/thought bubbles, actions, etc, making it easier to show what you think and what you feel. By putting myself in its shoes, i would be able to "witness" what is happening around me, imagine another world and it's pretty fun because I feel like a child again playing pretend..

I remember Mr Lim showing this to me and watching this at the start of the year again. I was facinated at the manipulation of food as they came to life and are fighting as if in a war. Burgers are tanks, pretzels are machine guns (i think?). And i really liked how creative the artist is and how he could persevere and make this film, i mean, stop motion is really tiring!!

At that moment, i realized that if i were to use food to represent something, I didn't have to manipulate it like draw faces, arms and legs on it or anything. Instead, i could use different parts of the food to create an action, for example, the kebab are like bullets and shoot out of the stick. hahahaha.

"Food Fight" represented war, which I personally felt was very meaningful. And so I was inspired on making my food represent aspects of life. Maybe not as big a matter as war, but something on a smaller scale, like daily encounters.

The reason why I decided to use food to represent challenges was also probably due to the creeping thought in my subconscious that made me marvel at how challenging it was to make the stop motion movie in the first place. I brainstormed about the tiny challenges we face everyday and how I could use food to represent them. For example, climbing so many flights of stairs is really tiring, and i linked this to piling scoops of icecream. (I didn't use this example in the end!)

Another reason why i arrived at this idea would be that my mom told me that art should represent something, it shouldn't be something you can find everywhere or anywhere. Which is true, I mean, there are millions of recipe books in the world.. I thought about poverty and how they lack food, but then i wanted something I could relate to.. Something meaningful to me as well as the world. So I was thinking about what im gonna do with my life, where I'm heading, who I really am? If i am the artist, i have to be able to relate to my work and my art has to influence me as well.