Hello dear readers! Welcome to another Fertilizer Friday. Sorry this is a day late – had trouble with the Tumblr servers yesterday. Fertilizer Fridays are interviews with artist friends. It’s about honest, casual conversation, sharing ideas + busting myths about being an artist/making art. I met Yoong Chia when he was working at Reka Art… Read more
First, a plug! Zedeck is reading some stories from his epic book-in-making this Saturday, 27 Oct at Seksan’s. Come witness this pre-birth. More info here. (Btw, if you don’t know, Zedeck is my non-husband and fellow inhabitant of leaky magical house in Port Dickson. Oh, he is a writer. Rather a good one, I think.)… Read more
20/11/2012 UPDATE – Fei just emailed to tell me his next solo exhibition opens on 7 Nov 2012, at Valentine Willie Fine Art, KL. Artist Talk moderated by Yap Sau Bin on 17 Nov, 4PM. It’s art ‘For the Refined and For the Masses’ – which group do YOU fall into, dear reader? ~ Hello, dear readers!… Read more
I’ve spent the last few days trying to finish a proposal for my epic art/multimedia/videogame/genre-busting/enterprise project. As usual, it’s eating up more time and sweat than I thought it would. First steps always do. They’re the litmus test. If you can’t get past this stage, how are you going to hold up to the rest… Read more
Seriously, there’s a way to do it. I’m going to show you how. This is not a hidden metaphor. I am not trying to be profound. I’m just going to show you how to straighten a goddamn muthafuckkin bent wire. So that in the off-chance someone you need to impress goes: ‘I need this wire… Read more
Over the weekend, I played around on Pinterest. I uploaded all the photos of house gates I’ve been taking over the past few months. I still don’t know exactly why I’ve been collecting gates. They’ve been sitting in my phone, accumulating digital dust. My favorite one. What a beauty. Petaling Jaya. ~ Assembling them on… Read more
Let’s do this! Ready? It should take about an hour. You can wear this all weekend and soak in its glory. ~ STEP 1: Gather the ingredients You’ll need: – Safety pins – Scissors & glue gun– Cheap wire headband – Thin ribbon in as many colours as you like– Flowers* *I’m using those from my #bungaBERSIH… Read more
Hello dear readers, I spent the weekend trying to write this blog so it could go up yesterday. You see, I had A PLAN. Mondays I would post updates from the frontlines of Making Art Happen – all the stuff that goes on in my head and heart. I would call it Makenarten Mondays. Wednesdays I would… Read more
