In early 2017 the artist Isabelle Desjeux offered me to do a one month residency in L'Observatoire, a studio hiding away from the hurry of the city in the greeneries of Upper Bukit Timah. I had felt the urge of going back to painting for some time already. For over a decade, my work as a lecturer had focused on photography, and the studio works had been a natural reflection of this evolution. Graphic and painterly practice had been mostly restricted to the pages of my travel sketchbooks. The time had come to pick up my brushes again and immerse myself in the process of building up images through the slow process of colour layering instead of instantatenous light capture. But this return to painting would also have to reflect the journey accomplished thus far.
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