Malaysia once had an entire industry manufacturing bicycles and there were many local brands. Sturmey Archer was British-made accessory and only available on higher models or as an upgrade. It was rare to find Asians modelled on bicycles in early advertisements and especially of women, wearing pants. Found from archives, Kuala Lumpur & Singapore.

Materials
Acrylic paint, watercolour, ink painted on salvaged wood from torn-down villages north of the city, Sentul & Gombak.
13 x 15” / 2014

Sign-making series

Since 2012 the studio has been collecting old common sundry products still found in little shops, as a study into a vernacular graphic language. The design on these items are abstracted to highlight the basic elements. Painted on salvaged wood, each sign is a play of how imagery, languages and symbols cumulate to local context, nostalgia, uniquely identifiable to us in this region.