We had great fun
It was a great way to promote healthy and friendly living.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Take a Portrait - Artist Day Out at Istana Park
This is a community project to bring awareness among people living in Singapore, helping to foster a happy and friendly environment. It was started a few years ago in Little India. Portraits were taken and the workers wrote on the photographs and we helped to send them back to India or Bangladesh. Now it has enlarged to include all who love this country.
We started with Little India.
Take a portrait awareness event. To date we had done 3 of such events in the first year. We had 2 sponsors, Cher Tan and Fotohub. The first one we did was at Little India, the second at Golden Mile Complex and the third Lucky Plaza vicinity.
The Plan.
Thank you to our first sponsor of the event Cher Tan, we deeply appreciate his generous donation. Slight changes to the timing as advised by Ande. It will be postponed to 23rd Sunday from 10:00am to 12:00noon
Usher -
Printer - Ande
Photographer - Meng Foo
Date: 23rd Oct, Sunday
Start Time : 10:00am to 12:00noon, (Volunteer are to come at 9:30am for briefing)
Venue : Golden Mile Complex, Beach Rd
Contact Email : choomengfoo@gmail.com
An event to bring awareness to Singaporean about the contributions the foreign workers have done in Singapore. At the same time, provide the foreign workers a photograph to send home. Simple set up with cameras and swapping of SD card for printing by Ande. The project cost is consumables or printing cost only. We are looking for sponsors for the premise and printing cost. If possible, the postage can be sponsored too will be great. It will be held in Golden Mile Complex.
For Golden Mile Complex Event
The set up
The briefing started at 9:30am at Golden Mile Complex, in front of unit #01-46.
All volunteer photographers are to bring at least 2 SD cards so that the card can be swapped for printing. Please indicate your name on the card to reduce confusion during the printing process.
Ushers will help to explain and prepare the people for the shoot. Allocate 1 ushers to a photographer. Usher will helps to put in name and contribution of the worker on plastic cards with erasable ink to go with the portraits.
Ande will manage his printer with a helper to give out the print. The helper will help to ensure addresses are written behind the postcard. So the last step is a stamp to go with it.
The printer is a speedy printer this time
Volunteer required to stay from 10:00am to 12:00noon
Ushers and helper minimum 2 – Shashi
Photographer minimum 1 – Meng Foo
Printer minimum 1 – Ande
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Portraits of History VI
Portraits of History VI - Portraits of History VI
2014-2015
Little India
Now Exhibiting at Muffinry
112, Telok Ayer Street
Documenting the living before they become history. For the dead shall rest in peace. And, nothing is more vivid and intriguing than those which are living.
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The Vegetable Street, 27th Jan 2015
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
$650
Description
Drawn with Platinum Desk Pen 14K EF Nib with Atramentis Archive Ink.
Along The Buffalo Road are many shops selling vegetables and through the years the numbers have increased. Selling vegetables have perhaps been more profitable than selling spices. Daisy Green occupies two shop lots and it is one whose business is flourishing. The displays overflow to the five-foot ways and turns round the corner along the partition wall. Every space is worthy of more business opportunity. The shop intrudes into public spaces, calling out to the passerby. It becomes a certain social, spatial arrangement, giving Little India its special flavor.
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
Private Collection
Description
Drawn with Platinum EF nib and Sailor SEF Nib Lamy Ink. The temple is located in the middle section of Serangoon Road (Little India). It is dedicated to the Goddess Kali, who embodies the power of time, change and destruction. Perhaps it is also the manifestation of Brahman the supreme power. Kali is always depicted with ferocity. One common scene is her sticking her tongue with Lord Shiva beneath her foot. The legend has it that she was carried away with killing the enemy in the war such that she killed everyone in her way. To stop her Lord Shiva threw himself beneath her feet. She stuck out.
The Fish Monger, 25th Jan 2015
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
Collected
Description
Drawn with Pilot Penmanship EF Nib with Black Ink cartridge that comes with the pen.
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
$700
$700
Description
Drawn with Sailor 1911 Demonstrator Transparent Clear F Nib with Sailor Black Ink. This would be one of the oldest Prata stall in Little India. Most of the cooks appear to be at least above 50 years old. One of them sport a dark glass. He was responsible to fry the Prata, others turned and flipped the Prata while another was the cashier. They knew their job well and they work like clockwork. There wasn’t much talking nor shouting.
The Little India Tailor, 2014
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
$900
Description
The tailor rent the small table outside of the shophouse for slightly less than two thousand dollars, I was told. Amazing that sewing for simple alteration for the pants could sustain that kind of rental.
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
$650
Description
Drawn with Platinum 3776 EF Nib.
It is a common scene where old India gentleman’s dressing in their neatly ironed traditional daily wear, having his breakfast. The same beverage and the same Prata, nothing special, nothing bothers him. Every day is just another day. The same dressing, but he is not complaining about boredom as everyday is another repeat of the same. Perhaps he has seen through all the fancy and superficiality of live. Perhaps the ultimate reality lies in the flavour of ‘masala cha’ and the daily recurrence.
I’m a King, Dec 2014
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
$950
Description
Drawn with Platinum 3776 EF Nib with Lamy Ink.
Perhaps all of us wish that we are all kings. For being a king, we can have all we want and be free from the materialistic world. However, can we be free from the spiritual world of Gods. Perhaps not, as we see him, declaring 'I am a King' and yet praying to the Lord of Hinduism. The King of the Jungle looks at him, roaring in his supremacy. The Lion too is a King. Who's the King of Kings.
For those who desire supremacy, there is always a price to pay. Perhaps it comes with great responsibilities too. All those idling will look above them to find an easy way to life, as if the well-to-do ought to share their results of labour. The smart should help those lagging behind. The rich should distribute their wealth. The rulers should benefit their citizens. One wonders if supremacy is still good with such responsibilities and burden. Can the King bear it?
Prayers, 2015
Choo Meng Foo
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
The Little India Series
$700
Description
Drawn with Sailor 1911 Demonstrator Red F Nib with Sailor Black Ink
People frantically moving around her. She is aware and yet oblivious to them as she prostrates before the supreme goddess, like an obedient child. Kali is the ferocious mother that traverse across time and made every devotee her child. The motherly nature in her woes every devotee to confide to her and she would answer their prayers.
Black/White Side, November 2014
As I walk the path of a young Artist before continuing my education. I’ve started compiling the Portraits of History Series with Little India, Telok Ayer and Gardens by The Bay.
Shengyiyu@gmail.com
Telok Ayer garden
January 2015
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD150
Description
The small garden along Telok Ayer Street beside the Indian Muslim Heritage Centre. The pond reflects the shophouses nearby this conserved area.
Nagore Dargah Indian Muslim Heritage Centre, January 2015
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD150
Sold LookArchitects
Description
Since 1830, it was built on the sandy beach of Telok Ayer, followed by a restoration work in 2007.
Forest Circuit, December 2014
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD150
Description
The bridges connecting each SuperTree from this distance forms a circuit, it implies to me the circle of life as it brings glory to our green home, Singapore.
GBTB super tree
december 2014
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD300
Description
At this angle, it shows that the tree is much bigger than the usual ones we see in Singapore.
Man-Made Tree
december 2014
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
210mm x 149mm
SGD150
Description
Gardens By The Bay is filled with huge trees made by man.
Focus
december 2014
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD150
SOLD Lookarchitects
Description
On the second level Teka Market, a floor which caters to Tailoring Business its surprising to see a male Tailor as oppose to fairy tales where most Tailors are Women.
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD150
Description
Cheap slippers on sale along the busy vegetable street Buffalo Rd.
Matchless gifts
December 2014
Zhu Shengyiyu
Ink on Acid Free Paper
149mm x 210mm
SGD300
Description
A scenario between a buyer and seller.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Exhibition at Nilo Gallery, Shanghai
Portraits of Nature V – 探索热带雨林与人文思想
A continuation in the exploration of nature in watercolor as a vehicle to express the eternal nature of things, referencing the value of Dao. In the opening chapter of Dao De Jing, it was said that the Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao, the Name that can be Name is not the eternal name, as such it is really a challenge to capture the eternal nature of things – it is illusive. The series attempts to capture this illusive nature of things, writing its myriad forms and intangibilities.
The process is one of observation of nature and a series of thought process follows by a quick succession of brush strokes to capture the immediacy of the feeling that is dwelling inside my being and the being of nature. It is through this unity and oneness that the brushes, the strokes, the water, the colours and paper, they come into being, germinating into a piece of work. The works are a reflection of the being of nature and my state of being at a particular moment, which is unique in its occurrence. The works convey the eternal theme of the nature of things expressed through the imageries of plants and trees from the garden and forest of Singapore. They are figments of time and space, with the geo-location of Singapore, the Garden City. It is also an expression of my love for life as art and my country.
这是延续探索自然的第五系列，以热带雨林为载体，表达道与自然的永恒规律。虽然道德经第一章中提到：“道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。有名为万物之始，无名为万物之母”，道难以琢磨，难以言说，难以表达，但尝试理解并以水彩画捕捉道法自然，已足以丰富我的内心世界。
创作过程先是观察自然，进行一系列的思考与构思，随后用画笔快速连贯地捕捉那刹那间内心对自然的感悟。正是通过这种快捷而流畅的动作，笔、划、水、水彩与纸张相互交融，演变成一幅幅瞬间的创作。它是某一时刻自然与我的存在，微妙和谐，唯一无二。
作品通过新加坡花园与森林中植物与树木的形象捕捉自然的永恒主题。它们是地处美丽的新加坡花园城市的某时刻和某空间的影像残骸，同时也是我对生活作为艺术和对国家的热爱与情感表达。在这里，水彩绘画成为一种探究道与自然之间关系的载体，将它们的千变万化和非物质性展现出来，呈现出万物本质的永恒主题。
Thursday, November 14, 2013
TIong Bahru – a clear blue day
The sky has always been an important factor when I am shooting architecture or documenting the streetscape of a place. Nothing looks more attractive than having the building stack against the purest blue backdrop. For the whole of April it has been a lot of rain every day. In early May we begin to see a tinge of blue sky, but the blue was not intense enough. It was in this mid-May that I spotted the crispy blue which I could not resist shooting a series on Tiong Bahru Blue. I am loving the blue and how much wonder it could bring to the composition. My mind is working hard to see how I could bring the inside of the interiors and integrate it with the outside blue. In my mind scape I have begun to conjure that pictorial landscape. I will paint with the digital camera and the digital application! Experimentation and merging digital camera and creativity is my preoccupation. One never gets bored when the mind is always curious, investigating and experimenting. Most of all getting the feedback and support from friends and fans are very encouraging. THANKS ALL. A series of photos of Tiong Bahru in Saturated Blue.The Monograph and postcard will be available at Orange Thimble and One Olive soon. Watch out for the launch.For prints please email choomengfoo@gmail.com it takes 1-2 weeks
All rights reserved for the Photographs published here, for any use please seek permission from choomengfoo@gmail.com
TIong Bahru – a clear blue day
The sky has always been an important factor when I am shooting architecture or documenting the streetscape of a place. Nothing looks more attractive than having the building stack against the purest blue backdrop. For the whole of April it has been a lot of rain every day. In early May we begin to see a tinge of blue sky, but the blue was not intense enough. It was in this mid-May that I spotted the crispy blue which I could not resist shooting a series on Tiong Bahru Blue. I am loving the blue and how much wonder it could bring to the composition. My mind is working hard to see how I could bring the inside of the interiors and integrate it with the outside blue. In my mind scape I have begun to conjure that pictorial landscape. I will paint with the digital camera and the digital application! Experimentation and merging digital camera and creativity is my preoccupation. One never gets bored when the mind is always curious, investigating and experimenting. Most of all getting the feedback and support from friends and fans are very encouraging. THANKS ALL. A series of photos of Tiong Bahru in Saturated Blue.The Monograph and postcard will be available at Orange Thimble and One Olive soon. Watch out for the launch.For prints please email choomengfoo@gmail.com it takes 1-2 weeks
All rights reserved for the Photographs published here, for any use please seek permission from choomengfoo@gmail.com
Sunday, November 10, 2013
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