Noc Vvyne Lim
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Drawings and Paintings
In Place
(Ex)(Ac)cess​
Literally Paintings

Abstract & Mixed Media 
Depar()uera
Catharsis
Latter
Play Poem

Murals
​Harmonies of Nature
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(Ex)(Ac)cess


Picture
A Fable Alludes to You,
 Oil on Canvas,
48.0" x 36.0"
2013





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Millet Painted Angelus.
Dali Painted the Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus.

I borrowed the figures from Dali  in order to describe work and labour.  I have liked Dali's figures for their abstraction and movement away from the dominant race and  sex of most figures in Western painting. 

(Granted the painters painted people from their culture and surroundings but as a Southeast Asian who is adopting oil painting, I do not wake up to see white people everyday.  I am neither white nor am I a man.)

A Fable Alludes to you  is  written by Hans Christian Anderson in his book of Fairytales; and told the story of a dog finding itself between two hills, with a monastery at the top of each hill.
 
The monasteries will ring their bells to announce meals being served  and a hungry dog, on its way up a hill, would hear the bell from the next hill. It would  climb down the hill it was already  on to make its way up the other hill.
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What happened to the silly dog was that it found itself climbing halfway up a hill, then turning back to go up the other hill. It did that a few times; eventually, meal time was over and the hungry dog found itself with no food to eat.

I was trying to make a personal decision with regards to my work situation soon after graduating from NAFA. Wanting to continue making artworks, while also having to earn living expenses and try to rent a studio to work in had created much conflict. The story fittingly described my dilemma  back in time.

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  • Fine Art
    • Series: In Place
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    • Series : Literally Paintings
    • Series: An Imaginary Plane Crash
    • Series: Catharsis
    • Series: Depar(t)uera
    • Series: May
    • Series: Latter
    • Series: Play Poem
    • Series: Experiments in Digital Collage
    • Mural: Harmonies of Nature
  • Illustration
    • A Wicked Tale
    • The Monsters in Mervin's Shop
    • Monsters from Under the Bed
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