As a child born in the 90s, television (TV) set is nothing now to many. Cartoons have been an important part in my daily entertainment. Although, many cartoonists draw their inspiration from object or events of real life, it’s always sadder, scarier, more beautiful or more exciting than the real life. The over-excitement from watching cartoon programmers has it’s magic of clearing stress in my life. Cartoon programmers are like drug, they are my daily joy. It has become a habit or a route in life that I cannot quit from in.
It’s the moment when I started viewing cartoon programmers, where I feeling that I have entered a different realm. I am a real character from reality; a cartoon character is an artificial form of life. When I am watching it, the reality and fantasy come together in my mind. That’s the moment I am interested in a surreal reality; an artificial euphoria. In the process of making or the works, it is a imitation of this stage of euphoria. There is a hope to prolong happiness.
RR;Robot Rabbit1 x Suitcase
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Every Entranced EuphoriaEsplanade Jendela, Singapore
I am immersed in the euphoric sensation of cartoon, as i see life in abst
The works are about explaining and reproducing a heightened experience from cartoon. The cuteness, fastness, suddenness and happiness in cartoon have inspired this works. The works are products of mutating and juxtaposing images and colors of cartoons of all different genres. 
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Art is creation in response to lack. The art object is a kind of fetish, a replacement from a stand in for the archetype which must be there, somewhere.”1
The starting point of my artworks is my happiness. Juxtaposing subjects that I have fetish of and I came to realize that there is a common factor about them. They are always things that are more intensive than real life and artificial. So, I started to question about this kind of happiness. The works can be a form of dark humor, kitsch or see as irony. “A lot of people, however, just saw exactly what they wanted to see in it (a show with just the ‘stuffed animal’) and didn’t see anything wrong with it… If the viewer wishes to be infantile that’s their decision.” – Mike Kelly 2 I hope to be an infantile viewer in life but “Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand." – Pablo Picasso. There is no way that we can really run away for the reality, but I am still trying.
Mike Kelly works have the power to make people reflected on our surrounding objects. His works make me as a viewer to reflect on things that I have never questioned about, for example, my childhood memories, Disney lands and many more. “He works at the very limit of what we allow ourselves, what we hope for and deeply fears.”- Peter Fischli & David Weiss His works play with the feelings and reactions of his viewers. My works are made for personal reason; it’s to come to term with my felicity with artificial and an artificial utopia.
1 Mike Kelley, the Uncanny. Sonsbreek, Arnhem 1993
2Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Mike Kelly, Germany, Herausgeber, 2000, p. 24.
Winner of 24-hour Marathon Mural Painting competition Sentosa Flower