Looking for inspiration...

Artist: Xiaogang Zhang (1958-)
Medium: Painting
About the artist: Classified as a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. Best known for his Bloodline series of paintings, which are often monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 60s.

above: on show in Art Gallery of NSW (2006)

above:A Big Family ,1995
Oil on canvas
179 x 229 cm

The artist is using a more classic art medium-oil paiting. But what i see as valuable in his works is the emotions expressed, which is subtle but at the same time very impactive. He has his consistent style: monochromatic tones, the 'bloodline' (the stains), large dark pupiled eyes on the characters. Not being the artist himself, it can be hard for the viewers to tell what specific emotions he was implying. However, both the visual and emotional impact are quite strong.

WHAT INSPIRATION?

a quite direct appropriation from the artist
the blood stain and tears can come out by animation, so the image gradually changes, the emotions become stronger...

New Homepage Idea

A girl sitting by the window
(Rendered sketch or digital photo collage)
Grayscale + highlight of red (pink)

As mouse cursor moves around, you start to realise the girl is in a ‘scene’,
where there are also views (surrealistic) outside the window, objects hung on the wall [animation], photo frames, etc. not too complicated, but provides possibilities for links to other pages. These elements appear and disappear as the mouse cursor moves onto/away from them.
Something as ordinary as a room interior (though with surreal elements) is to enable the webpage a ‘layout’/ a page to start with,
So that the viewer is to start a virtual journey with the girl (who is looking out of the window, with uncertain identity, seemingly in deep thinking) of exploring her identity (By generalisation, female identity)
As the journey goes on, the organisation of elements on the page is likely to become more abstract, and the idea within the pages will be more related to sensational feelings, psychological world, where the response to these pages are not meant to be utterable, however to be impactive (if they achieves the effect I imagined)