Müs [pronounced like mousse] are (fictional) ghostly creatures who enjoy observing/ witnessing the world around them. They seem a little intimidating because of their glowing eyes, but they're harmless, gentle creatures.

In my first year of Fine Arts, I developed a habit of drawing exaggerated smiley faces on my classmates' hands (I guess) as a reminder to stay positive during those dreadful afternoon lectures and endless workshop sessions. It soon became an inner joke among my closest colleagues; when texting, I even started using the Ü instead of the standard :) to express myself (thus my username came to be the umlauted smile) and, in by end of my second year, that psychotic little smile turned into my artistic signature.

At the start of my third year, I came to the realisation that my signature upside down reminded me of an endearing and timid little ghost watching me from afar (like the kodama and dust sprites in Hayao Miyazaki's movies) and played with that until I decided to make that fun hyperfixation a foundational element in my work, which resulted in the müs.

Finally, during my fourth year of Fine Arts, and in order to make müs more distinctive and unique amongst themselves, I ideated a guideline to design them based off an animal, colour, body part and number, which I adapted to the medium I used. And in my final year in Fine Arts, I started seeing them as spiritual forms, souls, per se, and started incorporating them in more christian art pieces of my own.

Below are the mü pieces in chronological order. Click on them to get their technical information, along with the 'deep' descriptions of some and a couple of notes from the creative process of some others. I'm so sorry for the GIFs, back when I first uploaded my work here, I couldn't think of an alternative way to display the pieces and their details and I no longer have the high quality photos with me.