Kerwin Chong is a rubbish picker and he isn’t ashamed to admit it.
“People discard old furniture and unwanted pieces of wood without realising its beauty. There’s a sense of satisfaction to giving a new lease of life to old treasures,” says Chong, beckoning at discarded items collected from neighbourhoods around Petaling Jaya. It includes rattan chairs, window frames and old pieces of timber, neatly displayed at his porch in Kelana Jaya.
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