3 May 2020 / 9.32pm
On Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 2.37am, I received a wonderful news about my poster that was voted as one of the 10 winners in Greece. There were 1,900 posters in total, submitted by 1,257 participants from 70 countries.
I was electrifying!
In 2010, the same poster was exhibited again at the Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia.
The first person I called to share my joy was my mum! She was very happy. The first question she asked was where is Greece?
I told her it was 15 hours by flight, 8,736 kilometres aways from KL. She was very worry and advised me not to go. :-) But my dad encouraged me to go.
On July 7, 2008, I went to Greece. My first time to Europe. This country has opened my eyes to the wonders of art. Everywhere I go, I see art. In Greece, we call it street art. In Malaysia, we call it vandalism.
Let me share my poster a bit.
My poster is about dream. Dreams are unpredictable. Either we achieve or we don’t. Sometimes a good dream is born in a wrong situation at a wrong time, making it unnoticeable. Sometimes, a bad dream is born out of a right situation and right timing, making it noticeable. All this are represented by the matching colours in boxes and words in my poster.
This poster is about my confessions, my repentance, my challenges, and my desire to love God. Something that I wanted to improve myself. That's my dream! Because of that, I didn't share this poster to my friends. I was thinking this poster will go to Greece. So, it's safe to share to the people that I do not know. Furthermore I didn't expect to win. I just want to gain exposure.
One Sunday, after church service, Pastor Daniel was talking to me. I told him I am going to Greece but I don't have peace. He was very excited to share with me how beautiful this country is and told me that I must go. He prayed for me. After that, he asked for my poster! I told him I will email him. But he insisted me to print bigger size for him.
Oooh…Nooo…!
I left the church with another "renewed" worried!
After I came back, he saw me in church and asked about my poster! He still remember! Well, I printed a big poster of my confession and repentance and he displayed it in his office.
This poster is close to my heart, not because of the award, but because of the process in creating it, which eventually I realised that it was my conversation with God. I discovered that some of my dreams written on this poster was fulfilled over the years without realising. Probably because it was in my Senior Pastor's office. He must be praying for me every day! :-)
This poster also became an eye-opener because it has touched my heart to see the greatness of God.
Ever since then, my passion was renewed and my perception of art & design was taken on a whole new level. I no longer see art as a form of self-satisfying. Instead, I see it as a medium to bring hope and love to the world by the power of God's love. That satisfied me!
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