The Hole is a set of small miniature paintings made between May-June 2020. They range from S$180-S$200 and are available for purchase at Cat Socrates (Yong Siak outlet)🌴.

(PICTURED ABOVE): The Door’s Right Over There. Acrylic on paper, 2020. Painting depicts a man preparing a protest signboard and unfortunately gets his house trashed. (SOLD)

(PICTURED ABOVE): The Douchbag. Acrylic on paper, 2020. This small painting features a person attempting to save a burning house by pouring water from a tiny cup, while at a distance from said burning house. Every organization or groups almost always have a douchbag, unfortunately. (SOLD)

(PICTURED ABOVE): Enter Password. Acrylic on paper, 2020. This painting shows a person seeking connection and intimacy during the very trying and isolating times of lockdown during the pandemic. (SOLD)

(PICTURED ABOVE): The Banana Tree that fell. Acrylic on paper, 2020. This painting is a response to ongoing research I am making into performance artist Lee Wen and his mentor Tang Da Wu for a particular project. I am paraphrasing here: Tang Da Wu used the banana tree’s shallow roots to describe how a developing country’s level of democracy tends to have shallow roots like that of a banana tree and how countries with banana-tree-level-democracy should strive to reduce or avoid that. That imagery was rather vivid to me, hence my painting of a fallen banana tree, with Lee Wen as Yellow Man witnessing the horror.

(PICTURED ABOVE): The Hole. Acrylic on paper, 2020. Personally this is my favourite. Looking at the news, I wonder “ If we could just dump our problems inside a giant hole, what would it be?” I thought of painting people throwing guns, plastic, bad eggs (bad people), their cell phones with misleading information…all into the hole. Then I realized it is impossible to decide what to dump into the hole, and that it would be much more poetic to leave it as a giant hole.

(PICTURED ABOVE): It’s Showtime. Acrylic on paper, 2020. This is a portrait of a person who makes lovely enticing promises but holds immoral, questionable intents. We can only try our bestest to avoid being in vicinity of folks like that. (SOLD)

(PICTURED ABOVE): I’m Just Trying to Warn You. Acrylic on paper, 2020. I imagined what the first meeting between people of different cultures, origins and backgrounds might have been like. It is perhaps, a snapshot of bias and misreading of intentions setting in between two different people, amidst one very hungry tiger looming by.  (SOLD)

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All paintings are framed inside photo frames that had been thrifted from assorted flea markets. 
Please kindly contact Cat Socrates directly if you are interested to purchase a piece. Thank you:-)