Last week, Kwoa‘s dumped a huge bag in the middle of our workshop. Not that unusual considering that our mascot tend to bring a lot of random junk back. Curious, we opened the trash bag, half ready to immediately throw it out.
With a broad smile, Kwoa proudly introduced his lifelong collection of leaflets. Past the original surprise, we slowly dived into the material. Effy picked a handful that she laid out on her designer table. Malaysian resorts, French key recycling exhibition, Singaporean custom declaration, Macao casino regulations, Chinese revolutionary museum and music festival advertisement, tourist guide map from US, Indonesian shopping mall guide map, Indian blind restaurant menu, and so on…
The variety of designs, styles, colours, languages, themes, concepts: mesmerizing and incredibly inspiring!
We slowly fell in love with it and decided to start recording this treasure bag, doting these gems to recreate Kwoa’s life map. In the process, we also reproduce some of the best quotes for everyone to enjoy! Random example below and full list in the best quotes archives page.
“Redha Sorana is acutely aware of art’s position as a visual problem, and so focuses on compositions involving lightness and illumination, showing off the brightness of achromatic stimuli.”
[…] weeks before. When we got in, I simply put it on the shelves for J. to pick it up. The leaflet (which is now part of Kwoa collection) indicated a specific place to go in the museum and a task to do. The task was to draw a qipao from […]