szreniawski: Khairulsani Ismail - Questions and Answers

Q - What techniques do you use in your works?
A – Mixed media technique is my main media in all artworks.

Q - Your drawings often show suicide. Why is that?
A – What we do in our present life ? Without personal boundaries people are actually killing themselves physically, emotionally and mentally and are always being manipulated, used, or violated by others. They allow us to separate who we are, and what we think and feel, from the thoughts and feelings of others. What I wanted to show is that in modern world we are just not killing others, but also are killed ourselves. We make our own problem. We killed others for that reason and at the same time we also killed ourselves with the problem we created.

Q - How important is calligraphy to you?
A – It shows beauty for the art works. Make it stand apart from others.

Q - What do you think about asemic writing?
A – To create something about thinking and creativity.

Q - Can you tell us something about PoemicsMag that you edited?
A – Very tedious job. It take a lot of time. And the first PoemicMag I made is about my political view about what happened in my country.

Q - You took part in two exhibitions of poemics in Lublin, your works were also present in anthologies of poemics, and you were/are a member of the poemicstrip blog. What do you like about poemics, and do you think it should be promoted more?
A – Poemics give you better visual on what you wanted to tell. It give a work more sense, scope and visualize it with deep understanding on the stories. I still used it in artworks for my art exhibition. So it should be promoted more with bigger audience.

Q - Do you keep in touch with many Malaysian poets and comic artists?
A – Not really. I’m not a poet or comic artists. I’m more on artist side, doing painting.

Q - What cultures - besides Malaysian - influence you?
A – All. We need to know others and to be fair to others. Know their cultures and it will give us better view and understand about them more. It will make world more colorful.

Q - Can you tell us something about your other activities and interesting experiences?
A – Doing painting and exhibit it. Exhibit the artworks will give you ‘something’, you can feel the viewers about what you do and thinks. It make you so close to them. You know some of you artworks is related to them. That is the best experience. When they debate your artworks, at that time you know your art are attached to them.

Q - What are your artistic goals?
A – Be more creative and productive.