artist. illustrator. writer. creative director.
100 Pages of Solitude
It all started with this book...
What started as quiet introspection gradually unfolded into a vivid narrative landscape inhabited by this red-haired girl named Sanguinella.
"100 Pages of Solitude" is a compilation of 100 drawings by Alexdrina Chong from all three journals, dated between May 2021 to April 2022. What started as casual journaling during the pandemic for the artist became an unintended process of relinquishing herself from all the burdensome, fictitious stories about life. Awaken is the story of this little red-haired girl, sometimes a two-headed lady, with a black monster character shadowing each of her decisions in life - Sanguinella.
From the first page of an old yellowing journal to now, her first book, "100 Pages of Solitude," is a sarcastic yet confessional visual documentation of Alexdrina's journey with Bipolar Disorder, an honest depiction of this fragmented self constantly in need of a dignified moment of clarity and harmony. Transparent and available, the book invites the audience into a liminal space to confront our overwhelming emotions, all the inherent frailties that make us all too human.
Sanguinella
and Entropy
Red hair, red stripes, a deadpan face. Sanguinella
is unbothered, sarcastic, and a little cracked.
Often appearing as a seemingly malevolent little girl, she twists innocence with shadowed intent; sometimes as conjoined twins, bound yet distinct, always accompanied by a persistent dark shadow.
Her name—Sangui for blood, Ella to rhyme with Cinderella—signals her defiance: she never needed
to fit in.
Always appearing alongside Sanguinella is Entropy,
a luminous shadow figure. It carries the chaos of life, resistant, expanding, impossible to tame. The more you try to straighten it, the wilder it grows, echoing the laws of thermodynamics. Like Sanguinella,
it moves through cracks, revealing that disorder and uncertainty are not just obstacles, but a part of the light that seeps through.