Laam Kwok

Illustration - MA

School of Design

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Laam Kwok is an illustrator with a passion for nature, mythology and pictorial symbolism, her illustration style is inspired by printmaking, decorative lines and narrative through details are the things that she would like to emphasise in her works. Through printmaking and handicraft she combine a variety of materials with painting techniques to explore the diversity of illustration. Her works illustrate the beauty of love, fragility and death, she attempt to explore the connection between the body and the spirit, between reality and the mystical realm.

Cloister of the Moon

Cloister of the Moon

Project Description

The series of illustrations “Cloister of the Moon” depicts a spiritual palace located in the world of dreams, inspired by visiting a church. The word “cloister” is based on the Latin word claustrum, which stands for “lock”, “closure”, and also means seclusion, it connects the various buildings of the abbey and is a place of “in-between”, I designed it as a passageway between reality and the realm of the spirit, a palace of nothingness. The “Cloister of the Moon” houses creatures from the world of dreams with diverse personalities, in the hope that they will introduce the viewer to an inverted, mythical world.

<The Song of Wishbone>

"The embryo of existence is the embryo of a dream."

In this series, I was inspired by medieval manuscripts as well as Renaissance artworks, exploring the connection between the body and the spirit, between reality and the mystical realm by using the symbolism of signs, while at the same time I hope to create a dialogue with the viewer, thus giving new meanings and interpretations to these works.