Dear TomHa,
Went for an art exhibition held by Lau and friend that is in NJ (Har??!! I go art exhibition??!!). Anyway, I just missed forays into NJ to have their roti pratas.. haha, all right, that is not the point. It is amazing isn't it, TomHa? That something so simple as lying down to sleep can be interpreted by artists into something so moving, that (granted if I remember correctly) she is actually trying to express her feelings to her grandpa who is rather old and that the generation gap in between them disallowed her to confess her feelings towards him accurately verbally, hence the artworks which I think she felt to be her best communicating medium in this instance(??), although it never was meant to be a project. Anyway, the final work on a corroding zinc plate is really, in my opinion, rather impressive, not in her resourcefulness to find that kind of a zinc plate but by the evoculation (is there such a word? refer evoke) of a stronger emotion in painting her grandpa in this corroding, if not decomposing metal plate. That time is devouring her grandpa slowly into the abyss of nothingness, just like what time had done to the corroding zinc plate which is nothing like its past shimmering glow... Sigh, the fragility of life and the infeelings of time...

Anyway, there is this drawing by her friend that really caught my interest in the end. It is this painting in pencil and I seriously couldn't make out what in the world is the artist trying to conjure. Afterall, it looked pretty much like what I had drawn in my textbooks and lecture notes. Those that I had drawn or should I say GrandDaddy Chew (Zhou1 Gong!) when I was holding a pen or pencil in my hands and dozed off, striking some lines here and there. It was the most unartistic piece of artwork that I had ever since and perhaps that is why I only never passed my art during my lower secondary days. Sigh, some people are artistically challenged you know? Anyway, it was quite a shocking revelation when Lau told us that her friend is actually drawing seed pods! What the... I even thought of it to be a landscape sketch of Bukit Timah Road! With the dirty looking space to be the big canal in the middle of the roads! And those things that I deemed to be cyclists wearing those kind of Charlie Chaplin hats (forgot what they are called) are supposingly, the seeds of the seed pods! Wow... ermmm.. Ok....