(2009-13)
Archival pigment prints of variable sizes, audio installations of variable durations
Convergence is a body of photographic and audio work that takes an intimate look at segments of the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaysia and how people live and see themselves in these two countries with shared histories. It considers race, politics, history and privilege through conversations on and photographs of the lives, personal spaces and experiences of participants. This work contemplates how people have evolved with characteristics shaped by colonial and migratory history, by the politics that have dominated the landscapes, and social norms particular to Singapore and Malaysia. It also questions and records the changes current generations experience as they grow increasingly distant from their grandparents’ homeland, and as attitudes and values shift.
The work was initially presented as a solo exhibition in NUS Museum's Baba House from 2010-2011, curated by Qinyi Lim. There is also a monograph, available in the Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film bookstore.
The Will Always Negates Defeat
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Robert Norman "Bob" Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.[1] He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that appeared on PBS in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.
Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.
In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.
Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.
As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.
The Will Always Negates Defeat
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