Zine Mosh 3

DX talking to Troy Chin, artist of The Resident Tourist comic series. Troy Chin is my hero and idol.


Zines for sale.

Zine Mosh 2

Some performance artists and musicians doing a performance with interesting projections and sound.

Cool people. (See right)

LD player.

My book with other zines. The comic with red cover is done by Jon, Theresia's friend.

Cool LDs.

Zine Mosh

This lady seems to be the character Mint in The Resident Tourist.

My friend Theresia (lady in blue) and her friend DX.

A blur picture of my work.

Some illustrations.

More illustrations.

Zine exhibition

There is a zine exhibition which will be held on the night of 15th October.

Opening time has not been confirmed (probably 7 or 8p.m.)

Venue:
Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road
Block B #05-06
Singapore 439053

Rocket Zine, Biennale fine-artist Michael Lee, the little drom store,
comic-artist Troy Chin, photographer Philipp Aldrup, and independent
fashion anarchists FALSE/Anti-Anti are amongst some of the others
exhibiting works.

I will be showing "Nature, Solitude, and Memory".

Hiatus till December 2011

I am currently working on an A5-sized drawing. I will probably complete it some time in November or December.

Some Thoughts

I had wanted to say this since a while back, but I never had the discipline and time to blog about it till now:

I have stopped taking pictures of dead animals. I have stopped drawing dead animals.

I do not want to dwell on depressing stuff; I do not like depressing stuff anymore.

Art does not have to be spiritual all the time or to solve the world's problems, but the very least it can do is to be hopeful and realistic.

Art should give people courage and strength.

Down with depressing stuff, down with depressing art. That is too easy; try something harder.

Yes, I am still working on incomplete drawings, but I want to move on from here. To what, to where, I do not know, but it must be something more hopeful.

sin X Carl Andre

Like Eva Hesse, Carl Andre uses the language of repetition.

My drawings of walls were inspired by Tapies's works. These walls reveal the beauty in "poor objects" and weathered surfaces, and they are about the passage of time.

I was also exploring the visual language of repetition within each drawing -- the bricks of a wall, the wooden boards of an old house, the patterns on a sewage cover etc.

One of Christopher Alexander's fifteen fundamental properties is alternating repetition. Personally, I think banal repetition without alternation can be interesting too.

When I did my drawings, I was looking at art of the sixties such as works by Carl Andre, Eva Hesse, Tapies, and a few others. I chose my subject matter carefully -- it must have a certain appearance or aesthetic to it. The similarities between my works and art of the sixties have not occurred by chance.