Canto Cutie - Volume 2

Your latest works deal with femininity and you went to an all girl’s
school. How do these factors influence the kind of feminist you are
today? Or the feminism you envision for the future?
In many ways, studying in an all girl’s school shielded me from the
usual comparisons between the two sexes. There’s no sport/maths
are for boys and art/literature are for girls. I feel like we don’t have
to pretend without the presence of the other sex. I also got to be
surrounded by a circle of strong and confident girls who thrive in
their passions, girls who have different sexuality, body types and
interests. We feel safe enough to share our identities with each
other. I hope that the world will become more like this - safe
enough for everyone to be themselves.
How is your art practice currently evolving? I noticed your latest
works on Instagram are created almost entirely on Procreate.
Instagram
Procreate
I am not involved in the local art scene as a professional artist but
am slowly transitioning to be an illustrator. I love the idea of
storytelling within a 2D image and that is also why I enjoy painting
in the first place. It is only recently that I started working digitally.
Before, I was a bit intimidated by technology, feeling that it is too
complicated. Procreate simplified it enough for me that I started to
understand the ways of digital drawing. I used to only paint in oils.
In fact, the Floating series came from an oil painting that I did.
Procreate