My latest drawing, 'No Dividing Lines', is a collaboration with the Women's Aid Organisation (WAO), whose activities I have been involved in some way or another, as part of work as well as on a voluntary basis.
In 'No Dividing Lines' (2016), which is a digital drawing with an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro, the alternating motifs of a man and a woman start off at the top of the drawing in dashed outlines, separated from each other by solid line. The gaps of the outlines denote barriers to attaining gender equality. With each row, these gaps fill up as the figures gradually become defined by what eventually become solid outlines in the last row - the 'bottom line', as it were - signifying the little achievements that happen along the way. (Continued below after image)
The other transition that happens as the dashed lines 'solidify' is that the solid barriers between each motif start to break up. The fist split happens on the fourth row when the figures begin to join hands in solidarity. The pieces continue fragmenting to finally form two sets of equal signs on the last row, strategically placed at the locations of 'hearts' and 'minds'.
Something else I sneaked into the transition was the fact that in the transition from dashed lines to solid lines, the outlines that mark the head 'solidify' first - because nothing concrete can happen unless mindsets are changed first, of course.
'No Dividing Lines' premiered at Art for Grabs on 2-3 April 2016 at The School, Jaya One, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, with part of the proceeds going to the WAO.