Dear people, it is my birthday. Come, celebrate and cringe along with me! I’m going to go through all the things I did this year. Are you ready? (Warning: epic post) Department of Radical Reinvention of the Self and Art This year, I started to disconnect from being a ‘gallery’ artist. I mean, I’ve always… Read more
First I have to tell you: the journey’s done. We’re home. Zedeck went straight to the Room Where He Writes and churned out story no.82. Me? I am… well, I’m being slow. I’m always slow with the re-entry after going places. But this is not about that. This is about turtles. In an alley. In… Read more
Hello, you. Hello from a quiet little hotel in Kuantan. Hello from the East Coast – monsoon country this time of year, and just unfamiliar country to me generally. My car tells us we’ve travelled about 2000 kilometers so far. I wish that number made more sense to me. I’m sure it will in time.… Read more
I’m continuing to collect gates and grilles as we travel. This gorgeous art deco one was taken near Jonker Walk, Melaka. Whatever happens to the building behind it, I hope they save the gate. This one is at Sam Poh Teng temple, also Melaka. We went there to search out the Sam Poh well, which… Read more
Hello dear people, greetings from… not the road. Zedeck got a bad case of food poisoning, so we are like barnacles, clinging to home (and for someone, the toilet). After eating dry toast for two days, the poor man is much better, and we set off again tomorrow. Been looking through the photos and footage I’ve… Read more
I’m posting this from home. We’ve stopped in Port Dickson for two nights on our way up north – for laundry, for internet, for sanity. Tomorrow we go on the road again. I’m leaving all my art materials behind – the watercolor kit, brushes, color pencils, pencils, scissors, glue, fuckin’ stapler – and keeping only… Read more
Writing this on a clunky old computer in a hotel room in Johor Bahru. The view is of a highway. We spent the last two nights in Geylang, Singapore’s red-light district. The view was a row of brothels. Singapore is unbelievably close to Malaysia. Driving across the causeway felt like a biscuit toss over a… Read more
Roadtrip departure is happening today, but I still wanted to squeeze in a Fertilizer Friday. Fertilizer Fridays are interviews with artist friends. It’s about honest, casual conversation, sharing ideas + busting myths about being an artist/making art. Let me introduce a good friend and awesome artist, Varsha Nair. We met a few years ago in… Read more
