how do i identity a on d, w a y hang up or if a city of dwelling identity east and west owed a new, traditional and contemporary as a young artist navigating these 2 will isn't always easy. so for the next 48 hours,

i like to find out how my fellow makes sense of these married up this to find our voice and identity. i'm yang, a singaporean, multidisciplinary i did, and production designer always in pursuit of my artistic voice. i am in saying a book to start civic district old and new. come together to create an intriguing drill in the heart of a visual artist and pre maker j. c. live. please, contrasting elements of the urban landscape have provided a wealth of inspiration today, j. c. is bringing me on a 12 district to see how the modern and the traditional co exist kimonos, lee, dc, just walking through the civic district. i've noted demo sculptures than any other

districts in singapore. yes, this true is caught days of your it makes us and heritage is nice that the art can be miners, that they are the history and all this part of our past. as we live in this city, that is developing so quickly. the people on the river is a series of sculptures depicting life in early 19th century, singapore. and now jesse is bringing me to her favorite of the for to blows. and a great emporium is a sculpture by artist malcolm cold. i think the artist has done a great job in capturing the bottling true theme that was happening here. that's cool. and, and the other thing that i really enjoy are the details in the structure, especially the facial expression, the postures and the back is detailed like that really make it come alive.

sitting right next to these traditional sculptures is a thoroughly modern installation. 5 perfectly round, stainless steel spheres. the simple walk through singer verse civic district has given me a small taste of my cities, various complexities i like as well at the exit. there is a blend of the old and immune and i find attention interesting. why don't you pick some porter, either for fries project for you? okay. with now i'm heading back to j. c studio at the goodman art center. in thing of us ma beth and neighborhood. in my work, i am inspired by urban landscape in singapore, especially public housing in additional pre making what usually would cost the with

and then afterwards we will end up and print it. however, i have transformed it leaks, and i think an element of from it, which is actually only using, covering through calf putnam for work. and then afterwards, instead of printing it, i have been very particularly enjoy the softness that comes from the medium. it is something unexpected from woodcut and for me that is a surprising sensation. so now i want to challenge you to create an image that is both traditional and contemporary using the photos that you're thinking just now. ok, i decided to use the colonial year. i windows and juxtaposed it with the skyscrapers with

this is really training my fingers rang my index finger, my thumb and control with the wrist and the whole arm right. i can imagine how you do those big with a like a bit of help then i can and for sure you found that yes, please. i think that will be really helpful. so this is the read room. so the video is very good for more details. for incoming curve lines such as this, you can use the vehicle while you angry on and turn it around. i know this is supposed to be my individual challenge for when it comes to the are being a mass of your medium in your tool is the only way to express freely. and if not for your how i don't think i'll be able to bring the keys to lie. so thank you. at

1st thing to be a bit nervous right now. i think you're holding the cruise at a rectangle and you're able to cop longer for improving. thank you. practice really does make a difference with finally we were inc, at the carving, using a roller to enter a thin, even layer of paint. we're really for the big reveal wow or the how for this moment. oh wow. this was really good. i think this is really captures the contrast between or and new thinking daisy, for showing me the traditional wood cut print making method, envelope teaching me artist, tips and tricks. the sheets of comp,

on blonde singer birds. historical muslim quarter have become a living canvas for murals, illustrations, and graffiti. gallum gallery is the country's 1st and currently only outdoor gallery. today curator kit one is giving me a tour of my sketch, sheets back alleys, with his walls adorned by frame artworks, and detailed murals who have the perception of street art in singapore change. over time. 3 art is among vandalism. who i think we have a perception lesson, we are there many thinking vandalism, and that is of course. so by feet high, you can see is really flourishing. and singapore, this is everywhere. now everybody kind of read or is it just good for the environment? that's good for just the beauty of it. tell the story of the people and culture the belize. ah,

it is one of the favorite. yes. yeah. autumn on dallas. up there. kit one. can you show me more about the job with an outdoor gallery curator? what does it until? well, as the outdoor gallery curator, we just have to know our objectives. the objective of this project is to make this back street beautiful and also to support local arches. so what we did was this 2 lanes that we worked with. this one, we use it for a more emerging artists. those that just graduated from school, very excited, very enthusiastic, and gather cycle, more established artist. so for example, this is young. she just graduated not too long ago. so this is a watering camp to remind us that we need water. what is very important for us and for all living things. so people come here, hold out and you know, remember to pick her up because we have clean water all the time.

it one is, is the side with the more established artist, because i can recognize some of these names. this is beside with the i'm more of this artist center. for example, this one is june i'm. he is primarily using oil pains. he thought inspiration from movies, characters, movies, and cannot relate to real life. for this one is called the labyrinth, i think, is like how we navigate through life and in all these characters or peers we have and everything just comes for in this painting. while sheet art is celebrated today, there was a time when all this color and vibrancy would have been considered vandalism. creating art in public spaces without official permission is still illegal. even today, it has taken years for the authorities here to distinguish art from vandalism. one artist who has found the identity in this conservative progressive paradigm is sam low. in 2012,

sam was arrested for vandalism after pasting stickers with cheeky messages on traffic lights. yet today, sam is known for brilliant large scale murals commission by both the private and public sector from the ann, thanks and was that have gotten you into trouble the long to now working with large brands with scale and visibility, how do you feel of it? so when i was arrested and then i had this like um, whole identity like people call me vandorn. first me an art is on a 2nd day and pretty much i had no background while he's doing things like this. i know i loved. so coming to this point, i was just lost, i didn't know why my identity was. so when it came to that expectation of being an artist and having none of those skills, i took a sabbatical for a bit just to try to learn how to be an artist in singapore, most of our murals are sanctioned. how does that affect the perception of wyatt

street? this is vandalism will defeat is very much frowned upon here. based on what people know of what street are is, are graffiti is overseas. they romanticized that idea of what a street isn't graffiti artist, isn't singapore. and so they actually expect, like, you know, practitioners to go against the log, analyze, and stuff. but it's a unique situation and singapore because we want to continue doing what we love, which is to paint walls and to let you know, get paper and make a living for me, cause me to pay the bills at the same time. we also. busy our balancing the purity or integrity of our craft. so those that tough line that we torn them and i, i hate it to the alu all art center and i'm changing out into something more mess friendly for my next challenge. so what are the challenge? i really want you to try and create your own piece, experimenting in different shapes and forms. and right here we have a couple of 3 kinds, different colors and different caps. and because we know each other for a long night. so i'm going to show you a couple of tips to,

let's do it so closely your goal. the scenario goes, the further you go. the 3rd is, it also depends on how hard you press the nozzle. i'm gonna go with creating the latch line, both just to create the light sheet. and then after that i'm going to fill them in the gradients. gradients. okay, gradient. i'm gonna try okay. okay, cool. that's the issue. not me. yep. okay. oh not too fast. can i go over again? yeah, sure. oh, good lord. i saw a colleague which is next. i'm feeling all the paintings and the puzzles and a green. okay. with a 2 year old, right. you have to look at

a big picture not give us more detail. you know right here which you have in mind, like, you know, we're going to, i'm going with the flow ok with end where i am just going to whichever colors calling out to me. okay. so what do you mean? ok. well coming, you know, we're in close it and yeah, again it is what they look al clean. i was with it now. ok, we did. i did a little bit and i hope my boy how may i put it properly

with thank you so much for today. them and for being the most part in, by the same time chris, a friend always, and this is how i learned, you know, me well done on the yes you do anyway to singapore is known for being a flu and clean and modern cube actually us and this young city office out is various complexities. today. i learned how i like jesse lynn and sambo, expanding unique identities, 30 chosen mediums. now i'm curious what ada dualities are just here to haggling good is day to day and i'm enjoying a stroll. watching the waves come and go. when you get all these sand could actually be a medium to tell beautiful stories and create fluid pieces of art. as

the definition of art continues to grow, many art is expressing themselves through a non traditional medium. stacy is one of the single most pioneers is an art and has performed around the world too much a clean hi stacy. hi. thanks for having me. stay her ease. ill pick out one thing from the beach and clear. the love beach then. but goes on a bit more special. those are corals then a bit of caught people have asked me to like, yeah, it's a mix of different sheets of loop and all this different, no particles come from malaysia. some come from australia lit up very, very fine, almost powdery. the san is it can suffer than i thought. and she cool to

detach k. show me some tips and tricks as to how you get the position in your forms and shapes for so one of the most common ones is doing we've. so as you personnel and slide off, you get this numbers up and down. but in the way up and down this way, you roll your head. yeah. and it's right. yes, i will give it a shot case or from the right to the left and then press down. yeah. move in. we've men ah, 2 ways to cover the bought one is, is fish, it immediately is covert. getaway is we like to do the wind flow. sometimes we will actually use our hand and we thought of filter in plain lines like this. or we can pinch a bit of sand and then as we go along we shopped it in bit. oh yeah, old is fine details. how do you feel about using san for to unconventional medium

and how do you feel about that as your identity, as an artist, as an artisan thing, i'm going generally most of us struggle a lot. and like you mentioned, it is unconventional because it's so it's a medium that takes a lot of control and is by nature something is very fluid. so it's very difficult to actually maneuver it. but it does take technique, drastic skillset, definitely with me me ah, thank you for today, stacy, for showing me san as

a medium it is unfamiliar. in fact, i've never even used it before. so thank you so much. thank you. yang, thank you. in a nascent art city, traditional arts sensibilities have given way to unexpected new forms by young dynamic artists. kelly, limerick is a visual artist with primary mediums or crochet and lifting. she is a prominent figure of this art form in singapore, with shins across various museums and art spaces. kelly, i understand you're very welcome to textiles says you are 7. and i'm wondering what is it about this medium that you have stuck way for all these years? so the thing about they thought is that some people refer to it as a thing, but that a medium. and that means that is something that very easily really paval to is because of this immediately to the surroundings. it also makes text all kind of like a double each thought because people view that it is, you know,

so in the earlier festival in our surroundings, then what makes it different from, you know, just any old item in the house. i also this exact relationship that i enjoy when i'm creating up now, so you can time allowed her to has there if you want. what's the name of this piece? this piece is called, i was a landscape with my fingers and it's quite literally because like you can see all these lines, right. and it's actually built from bottom to up. so when i'm doing pushy, i try not to join separate pieces. i try to do it in one direction, and as i'm creating it from left to right, i imagine myself walking on the landscape with my fingers. it's wow, there's so many different add on to the layer of complexity, not just new textures back in the stories. and i think that is something that i strive to with as well. k, i can keep on watching you bring their cushy hook in and out. is in minutes, they've been calling for you. yeah, i would say so because especially as you can see,

this piece is very repetitive and it's very light street. so i don't really think much about it. and i think crochet is quite mathematical on, you know, right in the roots of it. and when i thought that i had to follow headphones and i feel like you kind of have to know the rules, the other thing or how you want to break down. yeah, and that's what i am exploring in my car. so are you counting? i'm not counting actually because this line was just going round the wrong. so i'm just using my i to see how big is going. oh, and how much green you want it to grow? yeah. is there a way to undo it? yeah, so i'm going to show you the singapore, the art scene reflects the paradoxical nature of this city. martin is one of the leading figures in contemporary chinese calligraphy, which is the artistic writing of chinese characters. this exquisite form can be traced back almost 2000 years. maps words unify traditional techniques with modern

abstraction ism. i lexical chinese calligraphy is both a visual and literary art. chinese po, often present it using calligraphy script, sometimes accompanied by motifs such as mountains, all bamboo deal. we have a dip, fit their self portrait. they represent 2 sides of me. this is me as a geisha building fall and me as an old man with a walking stick. yes, you can. i definitely see i raising my finger. well, because i'm paying, you know, what really strikes me wrong the previous teenagers introduce is that i suppose you to calligraphic strokes, but is taken a more current employee approach and fall. how do you get here? i think it's a natural progression using the same stroke. the same brush,

the same thing, and same paper, and there's no way i'm going to stay writing tendency poems or even my own poetry. i think more than i must have a sense of humor, must have anger, must have engagement with the well. so i just use the same brush the same material and knew exactly where one i've seen so many sites of you as well as a modem in. yeah, you can't run away from who you are. you myers will embrace it and express it right to day. this innovative chinese in artists has offered to give me a colleague or for your master class. so the chinese brush is a special kind of breath is different from the western breath and it supremely sensitive. and we have 2 identical brushes. one for you from went from me. so why

don't you load the fresh ink? all right, our try. okay. the thought was very basic stroke one, e. okay? school across okay, good. on the time sheet. oh, you wouldn't have to clear your mind. just think about one thing, the brush tip and the word you want to write him. emptying my mind and then just the tip of the breton, a paper right? and go for it. ah, nice with a new go advanced right now. i like jewelry, abstract things with it. oh and,

and i'm going to pass the graph. so to do something with it. okay, in a way when you are doing that is my 1st time watching that and i can feel the energy and it's very exciting. and i, they don't have to be the same, same know, so i'm gonna suggest that what if i do as my left hand so that i take this just completely letting go because i'm right hander, and i'm so used to it really you are lego totally. ok, margaret fell my scratch, then i would hire my lap. let's go for it. ah, okay. i see what you mean. you carry on a very annoy them. ah . ah, i assume it's enough why they all collaboration is

a masterpiece. i think so. you know, with abstract art even figurative up knowing when to stop. i think it's very important. i'm going to put my seal and since you didn't bring your seal, you're going to use your thumb print. yep. okay. it is. raise the key. oh, wow. well done. so alamos, whether dabbling and new mediums are keeping traditions alive, singer 4th artists of hans than me creating to find a voice in a city that is rep, that me involving. they aim to honor your boots while stay open to bold a fresh ideas from beyond growing up in thing of all i've always been caught between east and west. did indeed to look for my ruth and at the same time keeping up with this rapidly changing sea. but ultimately, these paradoxes, what shit me into the idea that i am today. i am happy to embrace them. after all,

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