Julie Choi – Looking Outwards – 06

This artwork was inspired by the art of randomness that Jackson Pollock has expressed in his artworks. In VAAS, students in vocational training put on a physical art show. The piece embodies the mood of the “60s era Cambodian rock music” through a live painting performance. It captures randomness during the performance because they try to express their theme, “riot of colors”. On a big canvas, a group of students paints on the white surface with body movements and objects such as brooms, leaves, and shoes. I admire this piece of art because sometimes randomness can be hard in a society with high technological development. I feel like this artwork was possible for students to present it because teenagers are known to be youthful and free. During the performance, they did not have any rules to how they painted; they ended a creating and expressing their youth in dreams with many shades of color and motion. This work is hung up on the VAAS courtyard so that visitors get to see when they enter the school. I respect this type of randomness in art because it is closer to playing rather than very calculated strokes.