The works of Ong Lijie

Singapore-based illustrator Ong Lijie focuses on drawing and printmaking, and is interested in themes of the consciousness, the coming of age, and corporeality.

The series ‘A Phase of Juvenile Autonomy’, for instance, reflects her concerns of entering and discovering womanhood, creating “narratives brimming with metaphors, weaving morbidly lush landscapes and anatomized bodies in my journey to translate a disoriented reality of vulnerability and self-awareness”.

This fascination for the unknown is often illustrated with very personal and visually powerful images. Her works are a result of an introspective process that reveals the inner experiences and emotions, the story of the self, its limitations and constant evolution.

‘I am the child I never had’, 2013, Etching on Schut Salland Paper, 84.5 x 77 cm, Edition of 3. Part of A Phase of Juvenile Autonomy series.

‘I am the child I never had’, 2013 / Detail

‘Come Out, Protect Me’, 2013, Etching on Schut Salland Paper, 84.5 x 77 cm, Edition of 3. Part of A Phase of Juvenile Autonomy series.

‘Come Out, Protect Me’, 2013 / Detail

‘Castrate Me’, 2013, Etching on Schut Salland Paper, 84.5 x 77 cm, Edition of 3. Part of A Phase of Juvenile Autonomy series.

‘Attaining’, mixed media.

Amnesia Haze, 2013, album cover.

Part of Rape of the Thirteenth Mind, 2013, 20 pages of screen printed works hand bounded into a clothed hard cover book.

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‘Piano Is Not Firewood’

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Find out more on her website, on Facebook, Behance and Instagram.