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Artist with hearing impairment
Living under a veneer of silence might have cloistered others from the hearing world into a shell of isolation and pompous self-pity. Not so for hearing-impaired Lay Hong, she is an effervescing fountain bubbling over with joy and radiance. The jolly cartoonist is ever approachable, ever reaching out to strangers and new faces; she makes no distinction between vagrants from the hearing or non-hearing world. Her cartoons in colour pencil, marker ink and poster bespeak an inventor who has not lost the child's twinkle in her eyes. Curious and full of wonder, her exaggerated caricatures serve as ready antidotes to a day sunk in gloom. One cannot but be infected by their childlike vitality, their elfish satire. Lay Hong and her art make a congruous whole. Like a whiff of fresh air, her naïve art drifts into our sub-consciousness, awakening previously dulled senses.
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