“Sea in black” is a research on contemporary creation of ink painting out of the concern for the marine ecology. Human has been speeding in the exploitation of the Earth’s resources, without control, for his pursue of the better standard in material life. However it causes many issues on the pollution, the environment and the ecology, which ironically damages his survival. The writer is a nature-lover, as well as an ocean-lover, which make her very worried for the environmental problems faced by the marine ecology. Besides, as a person who was brought up in Malaysia with Eastern and Western culture coexisting, the writer has strong feeling towards this amazing cultural combination and sparks.

As an ink-artist, the writer will like to express the cultural conflict between the Eastern and Western values for their interpretation of “black”. With the choice of purely ink painting, she will personate her painting subject matters, and hence highlights the conflict in Human survival. The writer has strong expectation in her public role exhibiting the artworks, more or less with the use of the language of Art, provides one of the possibilities for the viewers or the public to take note of the marine ecology issues, which hence bring us back to our conscience and responsibility to protect our environment.

Through the process of the research, the writer realizes that black and white is oppositely related. The co-existence of black and white outlines the composition of a painting. The East and the West define “black” in a fantastic contrast. In this research the writer gets more knowledge in the usage and proportion of black and white in a painting. With the creation of three series of artworks namely: “Submerged Cries”, “Survivors” and “The Bank of Marine Life”, the writer gets to play her part to care for the public and marine ecology issues. She looks forward to her future extension of the series, which connects her with the society meaningfully.