AbstractThe aim of this research is to phenomenologically engage with the graphite media
through drawing thus allowing the media to be disclosed in its poietic potentiality. The study also
aims to interpret the media as a meaning-making entity. Methodologically, the two main aspects in
this research, The Drawing and The Writing, were combined through the phenomenology method of
epoché and reduction introduced by Max van Manen. As such drawing becomes a way for the
graphite media to be understood through the unfolding of drawing experience.
Subsequently, reflection towards the artistic work and artworks through language becomes a
meaning-making structure in expounding essential meanings. The results of this study have
unconcealed the media through four series of drawing bodies which are Matter at hand, 2015,
Object-Tive TEXT, 2017, Reality hurts when you have nothing - Kuala Lumpur Biennale, 2017 a.....