SOLITUDE I have been tired. I didn’t know how tired until recently. Last December I flew out of Toronto back to Hong Kong, and after spending the winter holidays with my family, flew to Singapore for a self-imposed three month working holiday. I spent much of the last three months alone (when not working), wandering…
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Featured Image: Landscape by HUA TUNAN Last month I made my way down to the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay to check out Art from the Streets. I was skeptical but also intrigued at this institutionalizing of an art form that has generally been traditionally anti-institutional. Anyway, I paid for a ticket, and was actually quite…
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Another year. While stepping into my 27th year of walking on this earth, holding 26 years of days in my skin, I wander. I reflect on the love and support I’ve received, and I am grateful. I consider my achievements and failures, my work and my rest, and I am full. I forget the things…
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Earlier this year, Abby and I created a collaborative mixed media art collage for an exhibition hosted by Art Starts. Named “Referent”, it was a illustration/poetry collage that detailed landscapes and vignettes from the cities of Hong Kong and Toronto, places that Abby and I both have ties to. The web-based format was a play…
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Southeast Asia – the place I call home. This tenuous connection is remarkably fragile in Toronto, where most care little for the distinctions between the regional and national places of Asia, except perhaps, in the case of restaurant cuisine. Cue Heat, one-third of a spectacular series of anthologies published by Fixi Novo, a Malaysian publisher. I…
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