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self-portrait, 6 Sep 2025

Camera: Fujifilm X-T20

5 September 2025

2024.

It is a lighthouse. I was lost for direction in my life, until I saw a lighthouse that I could derive a sense of direction from: which direction to avoid, and which direction to pursue.

The lighthouse is the presence of God in my life: Father, Son and the Spirit of God (the Ruach HaKodosh).

17th September, 2023 A.D.

Made some pictures, at some kind of demonstration/protest/rally, which was related to climate change.

2nd September 2023

With my latest artwork - which is a masterpiece, if I may say so myself 😤 - I have painstakingly traced the evolution of human writing systems from mysterious Eastern logograms, to Arabic numerals, to Western alphabets, and finally arrived at the system to unite them all: the magnificent QR Code! This is surely the apex of human achievement! Nothing else in the future can out-perform the QR Code in simplicity, enigma-ness and eloquence! What a marvel of engineering! What a fruit of invention!

(Is this an ironic and sarcastic message, you ask? Good question, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.)

4th June 2023

A fantasy that the gardeners who tend to coffee plants, can enjoy a cup of coffee - and peaceful, harmonious conversation - together with the coffee-roasters and coffee-brewers who are on the other side of the planet.

Title of collage: A collective yearning

What do people want? A comfortable sofa? A soft and warm bed? A cup of fragrant coffee? A box of colour-pencils?

Through this collage, I tried to explore the idea that Maya Angelou has popularised: "we are more alike than we are un-alike".

31st January 2023.

origami: rabbit

Materials used: left-over hongbao/angbao/red packets, from the period of Chinese New Year.

9th January 2023.

Made a kind of little collage.I wanted to highlight the cosmopolitan nature of this island where I stay. Instant noodles - named Nissin - are from Japan, and a sign-board is in Spanish language.I threaded a kind of yarn through the paper, to represent craftsmanship (for example, sewing). I once read somewhere: to learn a craft is to join the great circle of siblings, brothers and sisters, located all over the world, who practise the same craft.

10th January 2023.

I wanted to highlight how absurd it is to point out a public enemy that everyone should rush to eliminate.

Instead of "us versus them", "democracy versus communism", how about "you versus the villain I have concocted"?

Made something today.

It has gotten me thinking how gentlemen are rare to come by, these days.

And no, saying that you yourself are a gentleman doesn't make you one.

5th November 2022.

Sketched, doodled, day-dreamed, whatever you call it.

About a coffee plant, growing among sun, rain and humans.

15 August 2022.

Felt a bit bored, so I sat down with some objects that I had stockpiled.

And some kind of collage emerged. I shall title it:

"Guard your heart, for out of it arises the issues of life".

My attempt at upcycling. I hope it brings you a chuckle or two.

Materials used: discarded fabric, paper magazines, plastic sheet.

I used discarded magazines as part of the materials for this bracelet.

Other materials that I used: felt, and jewellery string.

#upcycling

My beginner-attempt to make jewellery out of recycled materials.

(and it seems like I have to learn more about the basics of visual design, if I want to get better.)(and it seems like I have to learn more about the basics of visual design, if I want to get better.)

Materials used: plastic bottle, paper magazine, toilet paper, an un-used sweater.

#upcycling

Someone (the staff of Kult Gallery, in Singapore) donated a diskette to me recently.

#diskette #floppy drive #retro

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