Sketches

2008 - present. Ink, graphite, marker pen drawings on paper, variable dimensions.

Poignant and detailed pencil rendering by Maxine Chionh in a small sketchbook of Georges de La Tour's painting, The Penitent Magdalen.
Expressive and devastating pencil sketch by Maxine Chionh in an artist sketchbook of Egon Schiele's painting, Death and the Maiden.
Somber black and white graphite pencil sketch in a small artist sketchbook of Victor Hugo's death mask.
Poignant and moving pencil rendering in a sketchbook of Käthe Kollwitz's painting, Mother with Dead Son.
Macabre pencil sketch of artist Marina Abramovich in one of her performances during which she polished a very large bone.
Highly expressive and dark marker pen sketch with lines going across the page of a male model smoking a cigarette.
Quiet and sensitively rendered sketch in marker pen of a person holding their chin, deep in thought and inner reflection.
Sparse marker pen sketch with deep contrasting shadows of a man sitting cross-legged, gaze cast downwards, deep in thought.
Marker pen sketch with a menacing vibe of a seated man, dressed in a tuxedo, his hands are blacked out, and there is a crucifix glowing in the background.
Detailed marker pen drawing of the interior walls of a room lined with picture frames and in the foreground, a man with an intense gaze is placed in the center of the composition.
A very simple and sparse, yet profound page from the artist's sketchbook, empty except for one single line that reads, There is a hole here.
Cryptic and mysterious collage of a door in side profile and a drawing that extends the frame backwards, rendering empty space highly visual.
Subtle yet profound collage of a mirror in side profile with a pencil drawing that connects to the mirror and extends it backwards in visual space.
Contemplative black and white collage of a window in side profile, with a pencil drawing that stretches the geometry of the window onto the page of the sketchbook.
Haunting and terrifying collage drawing of a bottomless triangular hole ripped into the floor of a kitchen in a home in Singapore.
Somber and melancholic black and white collage of a home in Singapore with a large black grave dug into its floor.
Mystifying and scary collage of a home bathroom floor dissolving into a drawing of a labyrinth in smoke.
Stark black and white collage of a bare-boned living room in a home in Singapore with a drawing of a war trench dug into the floor.
Conceptual drawing in charcoal pencil of a block of flats suspended in mid-air over a scaffolding of fine pencil lines and a bottomless pit at the bottom of the page.
Densely packed and highly detailed page from the artist's sketchbook with text describing the formation of a sinkhole and a large pencil drawing of a sinkhole.
Highly conceptual drawing in red lines detailing the inner connected geometry of four disparate spaces in a home in Singapore.
Mysterious and ethereal diptych featuring two photographs of a house moving process, the left is out of focus while the right shows a male figure erased with a drawn duplicate in his place.
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