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Lim Siang Jin

Lim Siang Jin

First encounter with DALL*E

First encounter with DALL*E

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

Modes of communication over time: Some notes

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

Buttressing the mind of the photographer

Buttressing the mind of the photographer

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

How the Covid-19 pandemic propelled a 69-year-old to paint again... after a three-decade hiatus

How the Covid-19 pandemic propelled a 69-year-old to paint again... after a three-decade hiatus

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

Back to black

Back to black

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

Evocative durian, mystifying durian

Evocative durian, mystifying durian

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

Scions of Bacchus

Scions of Bacchus

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