Worshipping women: Confident, conscious and complex
By Ooi Kok Chuen
November 2015 PENANG PALETTE
Yuen Chee Ling has died at age 65, but her art, celebrating Women with a capital “W”, in all its good-natured simplicity and other-worldly complexities, lives on.A self portrait.Yuen Chee Ling held steadfast to the ideal of Woman – what it takes to be a Woman, the fount of infinite love, her innate beauty and appearance, her wiles and innocence, her strengths and vulnerability… and her mystique. She represents the Woman as the symbolic bedrock at the crossroads of changes,...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
