IT WAS a few days before Chinese New Year. My son had come up from Singapore with his family for the reunion and celebration. During one of our conversations he asked me if I had used ChatGPT and DALL*E. I said no and he suggested that I did. Alone
THERE is a constant tug-of-war in me between being rational and theoretical vis-a-vis art. I can rationalise what I do but to theorise is taking things too far – that would not probably result in art that's any good. In any case, reading theoretical heavyweights seriously has become an
Five photography stalwarts to discuss approaches to photojournalism, aerial, landscape and abstract photography, and darkroom printing OUR KNOWLEDGE of photography has become shallower even as the tools of the trade — smartphones, digital cameras and efficient editing tools — proliferate and become more sophisticated. To help counter this negative trend, five photography
By Kenny Mah, The Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20, 2022 — In “Running Off”, a 2020 painting by former pressman turned artist Lim Siang Jin, the viewer detects a buoyancy and unassuming ache for life. The colours could have come from a children’s picture book yet the peppering of
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IN MY “Fear and Hope in Covid Times”, when I was sliding towards negativity again, I felt a desperate need to check myself. Two ways of breaking a trend, I thought, was to go blank or go black. I decided on the latter. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change
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I HAVE always wanted to illustrate something on the “king of fruit” but never found the right mood or opportunity to do so. In early 2022, a chance discovery that a former colleague was making a documentary on a gamut of matters surrounding the fruit gave me the spark to
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PLACES that serve alcohol are a paradise for discovery – of people’s character, their secrets and fantasies. They are the regular haunts of boasters, fun seekers, sorrow drowners, even journalists and spies and their sources. Scions of Bacchus is an attempt by me to interpret in a small way the
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IN THIS SERIES, I assemble seemingly unconnected but related shapes in two or three visual perspectives so that they can be seen differently if you focus on each part. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change — October 2022. Click here From a distance, you see a piece of art using
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WHEN I WENT “back to black” (B2B), it was never my intention to abandon colour; it was an “active” pause to re-evaluate where I was headed. And then to move on quickly. I decided that I would examine different media, specifically how to combine analog with digital. Exhibited at Restart
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FEAR & HOPE was an unplanned piece, at least in its details and the emotive developments around it. I had been dissatisfied with “Yikes” in the Adventures with Acrylics series. However, knowing its potential, especially with more sophisticated treatment, I decided to repaint it as a much larger piece on
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TOWARDS THE END of 2020, I felt relieved that I could paint again. It freed me from the boredom of the lockdowns and I regained a much-needed sense of achievement and confidence. Based partly on the initial postcards I did in May, I began to venture into larger pieces of
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THE YEARS 1989-91 were another watershed period for my art endeavours. Work at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia had picked up a bit and I had been thinking about leaving for some time now. Longer hours in the office and uncertainty about my own future took