As the saying goes, we do not see the world as
it but as we are, or how we want it to be for each of us have varying feelings
and experiences. I may not fully understand and cannot properly explain the
philosophical term qualia itself, but I chose it nonetheless as the title for
my artwork, a half-body, side-view portrait of my classmate (dang I forgot her
name), because for me it encompasses all the mental and emotional states I’ve
been through before, during the process of drawing itself in the classroom,
finishing it at home and even while typing down this paper, and yeah, even
while reminiscing this afterwards and as long as this cross my conscious thought,
maybe, definitely.
