Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Beautiful illus­tra­tion work by Janice Wu:

“My work explores how mean­ing, value, and asso­ci­a­tions are placed upon things in the mate­r­ial realm. I am inter­ested in how seem­ingly worth­less objects have the poten­tial for whimsy and how the ‘inan­i­mate’ mun­dane can reveal poetic and nar­ra­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties. Through re-imagining the mediocre, the ordi­nary can become play­ful and even pre­cious. Working metic­u­lously in pen­cil and water­color, my draw­ings reveal the intri­cate, ten­der nature of this medium and reflect the notion of devot­ing time and con­tem­pla­tion in to the eas­ily over­looked. Through this process of inves­ti­gat­ing the quo­tid­ian, I train my look­ing prac­tice towards observ­ing the sub­tleties in my own lived expe­ri­ences. My curios­ity also lies in what kind of ethno­graphic expe­ri­ences I can con­struct through my work. By study­ing per­sonal mate­r­ial cul­tures, I hope to reveal under­stand­ings or real­iza­tions, large or small, of shared human experiences.”