Helen Guek, Imprint Of Memories (mixed media, 2012).
He was only a toddler when he left China for Malaysia, so memories of his home country were at best hazy. But the image of misty blue mountain ranges were vivid in his mind’s eye. How could they not be, after a lifetime of listening to stories from his elders, and piecing together descriptions from the Chinese classical literature he adores?
“When my father finally went to China in 1998, when he was 63, he expressed disappointment at what he saw. He had a certain sentimental bond with the family history he heard, and when in China, he looked for the landscapes described in Chinese poetry, the mountains presented in Chinese ink paintings,” relates Helen Guek, 45, who currently has a solo show at the Oriental Art & Cultural Association in Kuala Lumpur.
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