Notes to Self
DIck Lee

Dick is a music composer who, at different times in his life, has dabbled in various art forms including design, theatre and creative direction.

He went to art school in the UK and drawing is something he has always enjoyed. He likes to think that everything he does encapsulates everything he loves, and he draws inspiration from all those sources.

During the Circuit Breaker, the thing he felt most deprived of was contact with his family. The fact that he recently lost his parents made it all the more poignant.

At the start of the CB, he embarked on an almost hysterical decluttering, and one of the messiest collections amongst his possessions was his photographs. Sorting them out, he found wonderful pictures of his parents and siblings (three brothers and his late sister), and decided to recapture some precious memories by drawing them. 

Spending time on each picture was like spending time with them, and the long weeks drawing their portraits brought him back to beautiful days at home when they were all together, inventing worlds of fun, laughter, and, of course, music.

APRIL TO JULY – ILLUSTRATED MOMENTS OF CIRCUIT BREAKER
Lee Kow Fong a.k.a. Ah Guo 阿果

Singapore illustrator Lee Kow Fong, better known by his pseudonym Ah Guo, has used watercolour to create a pictorial documentation of our nation’s effort to curb COVID-19 from a child’s perspective.

This series of 15 paintings was done mainly between April and July, covering the period of Circuit Breaker and Reopening Phases 1 and 2. Each illustration highlights a special little moment of the stages we have gone through as a nation.

With Kiddo as the protagonist, Kow Fong hopes to remind everyone to stay hopeful and optimistic, especially during this unusual period and these trying times.