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Lim Siang Jin

Lim Siang Jin

Fear and hope in Covid times

Fear and hope in Covid times

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

Adventures with acrylics

Adventures with acrylics

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

Schticks

Schticks

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

Excerpts from a doodle

Excerpts from a doodle

IN 1988, I doodled on a piece of tracing paper with a 0.1 Rotring pen. A4 in size and called “Expressions”, I liked it very much, however, I did not pursue the idea any further. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change — October 2022. Click here Later on, I

Exaggerated stills

Exaggerated stills

MOST OF US experience the mundane everyday. This is quite fine, actually. Necessary, in fact. Everyday things anchor us to reality and allow life to function “normally”. Art, however, cannot be ordinary. Much like a newspaper page or a video, media I am familiar with, pieces of art are packed

Restart 2020: Continuation and change

Restart 2020: Continuation and change

WHEN COVID-19 STRUCK in early 2020, I was, like all other people, extremely disoriented. We had to drop our mainstay activities and plans to train students on leadership and soft skills. Our English for logistics course with the Selangor Freight Forwarders and Logistics Association also stalled. As the effects of