Kuala Lumpur. 30 degrees, 70% humidity. The smell of pigments. The fan above.
Everything begins with the preparation of the support. The canvas is glued onto wood. The composition is traced. The palette prepared from pure pigments. First layer applied by hand.
Then comes the slow work. Layer after layer, drying, wet sanding, new layer. Between 10 and 30 layers per painting, over several weeks. The material resists, yields, transforms. Until the balance is there.
The moment of the disc is a decision. Its colour is tested, tried, sometimes reconsidered. Its position is a certainty : always in the upper third, never in exactly the same place. The disc becomes the focal point of the work. The viewer’s gaze catches it first, descends into the composition, turns, and returns.
