Dominic Ng

It has been said that the inclination to perfectionism is borne of fear, and fear is among the most potent agents of destruction.

At a time of global tumult and discord, the world found itself having to mandate social isolation as a necessary evil for survival. As a person bent toward introspection, incessant self examination was almost forced upon me; the only alternative being that of distraction, always mere inches away with the vast array of digital analgesic at our disposal. The choice between being hyper-aware of myself or blissfully numb. The ease at which it was to swing between those two states created a dizzying cycle resulting in a disconnect between my inner world, my thoughts and feelings, and my outer world, my demeanour and what I felt able to share with another person.

It was in this liminal space that I found some solace in the exercise of externalising through drawing. Simple rules quickly gives birth to complex forms, contours and values on the page, meanwhile thought patterns and attitudes surface in my conscious mind. These drawings became candid maps of different mental states between expectation and acceptance, attempting to capture moments on the infinite progression from humanity to perfection.

Chaos / Order is a dedication to the necessary day-by-day, conversation-by-conversation and thought-by-thought attempts to accept who you are as you are, and by extension let go of who you expected to be, and reconcile the oftentimes infinite difference.

Magnolia Sans is the outcome of a type design project that sought to produce a geometric sans serif typeface inspired by the lo-fi/alternative/indie/bedroom-pop music I have been enamoured with this past year.

Fuelled by bleak lyrics and doomed romance, Magnolia Sans embodies the nuance and tragedy of music about young love and loss, nodding in form towards the minimalist production and wispy flowing melodies that characterise artists like keshi and eaJ.

A project which set out to bridge my love of music production and songwriting with an area of design previously unexplored by myself: coding. I undertook this project with the personal goal of introducing myself to coding and the process of creating graphic outcomes through it.

Refiguration is a collection of generative artworks created in p5.js and functions by taking a piece of original music and a series of photographs and translating the sonic energy of the track and the colour information of the photos into unexpected digital paintings.