a booklet of ink drawings. You can buy this book from Doinky Doodles!, 33, Bali Lane, Singapore.

This book is inspired by 7 Polaroid photographs of 2 unknown families. I bought them from an old lady at a flea market in Chinatown sometime in 1997. I found myself drawn to these faces, and had spent many hours looking at them and making drawings and paintings of them. Some of them were made in 2002, and, after a long break, I drew the rest of them in June 2010. The names and dates of birth of these people were written at the back of each photograph. This makes them more “real” to me.  These little grey images on paper have names. They are people. Drawing and painting these faces in the photographs is a way for me to express my interest in the human face, which can contain so many complex and hidden things.

An A-Z book of some crazy occupations and some not so crazy occupations. I painted one each day during the June school holiday in 2010.  They are based on images from the internet.

This is a compilation of some of my drawings, paintings and comics from 2002 to the first half of 2010.

It contains these series of works:
1) A Little Tale (2005)
2) My Brother Hippo (2005)
3) Strangers When We met (2002-2010)
4) This is the girl ( 2008)
5) The Penis ( 2008-2010)
6) My Brother is Dead (2008)
7) But Sweeter Than The Rest ( 2007)
and more.

_A story about a painter by the name of "Silly Old Rat" who painted everything but a person. In this story here we are very fortunate to witness the great Rat paints a person for the first time. How does he do it and will he succeed and achieve Greatness?

A story about 2 toddler's escape from the scary and complicated world of adults.
These illustrations were made for another story which someone I knew had approached me to collaborate. But the printing of the book was delayed for a long time due to money issues. In the end, frustrated with myself for not making it clear to the writer from the beginning,  I wrote my own story to go with these illustrations. As a result of that I think there could be a slight "sarcasm" in the tone I wrote this story. My friend thinks it is hilarious. Maybe. I think all mistakes I made are rather hilarious.

_One night, a group of friends heard that the moon had fallen. Shocked and heart-broken, they ran to save it.
In their desperate attempt to recover the fallen moon, something unexpected happened. I made this book at the time when my sister-in-law Elaine was pregnant with my nephew Gylan, and I dedicated this book to her and Gylan, and my brother Helin. (Buy this book from Doinky Doodles!, 33 Bali Lane, Singapore.)

I made this book after realising that you don't give your friends what they don't need.  In fact, being too giving can destroy someone. You can't buy friendship and love.

A very simple booklet about a girl who finds joy in the small things around her.
( buy this book from Doinky Doodles!, 33, Bali Lane, Singapore)

The second visual document based on and inspired by All Broken Up and Dancing by writer/musician Kelvin Tan.  It features illustrations and paintings/drawings/altered prints by me, together with visual artists Jeremy Sharma, Rossalyn Tan and Toh Hun Ping.

This 5-volume illustrated novel is based on and inspired by the 1992 novel,  All Broken Up and Dancing, by writer/musician Kelvin Tan. It features illustrations that I did from 2007-2008, with excerpts from the novel.
Also included are some drawings by painter Rossalyn Tan, and video stills and altered prints by visual artist Toh Hun Ping. The cover of Book 4 is by Jeremy Sharma. Below are excerpts from each book.

A working girl talks about love and loneliness.

This is a book of a series of painted portraits titled CryWolves. You can see these portraits under "Paintings" in the menu. This one and only book is bind by Japanese book artist Eriko Hirashima and is now HERE.

I was studying for my Master degree in 2003-2004, and I was chosen to represent the school to attend an art symposium and exhibition in Belgrade in 2003. I made the following works which would later be made into one of my first few "illustrated books". The following shows you how it came about.

During the day I talked to the young artists there. Most of them wanted to leave the country. But there were a few who said they would want to stay in Belgrade, 'cuz "It's my home", they would say. I did not enjoy mixing with the "art" people much, nor the symposium at all (my god!). So I tried to look for other things to do , other places to visit and other people to talk to. I made the following, partly inspired by the conversations I had with the people I met, partly from a set of strange postcards that Australian artist Fleur Summers had sent me a few years before that,  and partly from I-don't-know-what, maybe from that Guinness Book of Records:

In the nights I made these tiny graphite drawings in the miserable hostel room, partly looking at that Guinness Book of Records, partly looking out of the window, partly trying to ignore my travel mate.

_After I came back from the trip, I kept these works on my shelf and forgot about them. Then in 2006, I compiled them for an exhibition called Rage Against The Dying Of The Light, which also featured fellow artists Jeremy Sharma, Rossalyn Tan and Justin Lim.  I scanned the pictures of the junior football teams, and singled out each of the boys' face and then arranged them on the cover(shown below).  Miss Eriko Hirashima, a Japanese book artist based in Singapore, helped me bind the book.

This book is now in the National Library. HERE. That is the only copy. The end.

A painting catalogue for my solo exhibition in 2005. With an essay by Kelvin Tan. If you are interested to read the essay, click HERE.   If you want a free copy of this catalogue, email me. (you have to pay for the postage though)