"you think it over slowly, slowly choose..."

"you think it over slowly, slowly choose"

「你就慢慢考虑, 慢慢选择⋯⋯」

‘you think it over slowly, slowly choose…’

(2018)

13x50: 650 inkjet prints on tissue

Untitled: 4 channel text and image video projection. 12 min

‘you think it over slowly, slowly choose…’ begins with an inquiry into my grandaunt, a single mother who crossed into pre-independence Singapore with her 10-year old son in 1955 to work as a maid. She was first allowed by the state to apply for citizenship ten years post-independence (1965) in the late 1970s, but was denied Singaporean citizenship, stateless and trapped in Singapore. She lived in Singapore for five decades till her passing in 2004. This body of work has two parts.

13x50 comprises 650 3R-sized photographic tissue prints. These are 50 re-photographs, one for each year she was in Singapore, made with my iPhone, of each of the thirteen family photographs of my grandaunt that are in existence.

Untitled is a four-channel text and image video projection based on interviews, done in Cantonese, with two family members during the reconstruction of these memories and events, reflecting gaps and denial by the state and the family. The three text channels comprise literal truncated translations (Cantonese to English) from the interviews. The image channel depicts a silent excerpt.

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Robert Norman "Bob" Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.[1] He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that appeared on PBS in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.

In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.

Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.

As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.