Leaving home is a complex thing, this local artist shows


Phuan Thai Meng’s Everyone Thinks Of Changing The World, No One Thinks Of Changing One Self (oil on canvas, 2017).

They say that home is where the heart is. But what happens when a person’s “home” changes? What happens when a person leaves the place he or she is born, to seek greener pastures abroad?

Are they still connected to the country they left behind, whether out of love or obligation? And why should a place where someone is born, something determined by fate, play such a major role in one’s life?

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