'Building The Beca' project aims to resurrect a vintage KL trishaw design


Beca-maker Benny Diong (left) and ‘apprentice’ Jeffrey Lim will be assembling a beca together at the KongsiKL arts warehouse for the 'Building The Beca' project. Photo: KongsiKL

Most people know Jeffrey Lim for his cycling and mapping projects, his box camera outreach and photography works.

But do you know that since 2014, Lim has been learning to make the beca (trishaw) from scratch?

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