Year of Birth:
1961

Disability:
Hearing Impairment

Medium:
Mix

Occupation:
Draftsperson and Freelance Craft Artisan

For a compass of three years,baby-faced Mimi has been painting Trees. Solitary man amidst bounteous greens is the ature-lover’s favoured idiom of rejuvenation, regeneration and rebirth. Her well-loved trees are an enticing solace of rest for tired eyes and souls. In her choice of clay as a medium, in her unhurried manner, with her meticulous eye, Mimi is the living bard of this almost Wordsworthian philosophy: Heed Healing Nature. Her clay art is deliberately left unglazed and untreated to “preserve their natural beauty and ethnic feel”. With her, time waits for every person.

With her, time waits for every person, attends to every person. Against the rat race and paper chase, Mimi flows in a counter-current so soothing and refreshing to the soul and mind. Amidst balancing a positive cash flow, she warrants a place for her catholic interests, having been a professional FA artist, a cartoonist, a potter and now, an architectural draftsperson fluent in AutoCad. Mimi’s thirst for knowledge makes her a keen student, with a voracious appetite for learning virtually everything, in her own time and pace. Her precocity has paved her successful integration into Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School in an age where inclusion for the hearing impaired is unheard of. Nothing seems to bore the sanguine Mimi.

Mimi’s entourage of cute clay figurines and miniature collectibles, in all shapes, textures and stylistic nuances, is testimony to her inventiveness and refined workmanship. Her birth into a world of galling silence, instead of upstaging her, had given her the strength, concentration and intensity to form beauty out of the amorphous void.