Art

The only famous artists…are DEAD! (Art Shenanigans)

Posted by on Apr 17, 2010 in Art | Leave a comment

I come from a very tra­di­tional Asian fam­ily, you know the type, full of accoun­tants, com­puter sci­ence types (cough! cough!), psy­chol­o­gists, lawyers and the like — respectable peo­ple with respectable jobs I guess. I sup­pose I was never one to fit that mould and I think even from an early age I knew I wanted to do some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent, trou­ble was I didn’t know what that some­thing was…despite it sit­ting in front of my damn eyes since I was a kid. So here goes a bunch of child­hood memories…

I loved draw­ing! Appar­ently I started when I was around 3 years old, that’s what my Ma tells me any­way. I drew on bits of scrap paper and those hotel paper pads they have in hotel rooms, which my dad made a habit of pil­fer­ing (amongst other things, such as hotel slip­pers, tow­els and the like). My first rec­ol­lec­tion was