Red

Who is she? She is Hong Yi in Chinese and she called herself Red because the word "hong" means red. She is an artist but the special thing about her is she does not like to paint with brushes. She likes to grab whatever she can holds of like seeds, coffee, ketchup, balls and many others that no one know these little things can actually be used in paintings other than their ordinary uses.

What surprised me is this talented woman is a local. She was born and raised in Borneo, which was an island in Sabah. She was than graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia with a Master of Architecture degree in December 2010 and a Bachelor of Planning and Design degree in December 2007. She archived the Melbourne Abroad Scholarship and studied in Technical University of Delft in Netherlands in her final year. She is now working in Shanghai as an architect for Hassell.

Red or Hong Yi amazed the world by painting Jay Chou with coffee and painting famous basketballer Yao Ming with just a basketball. She had won many awards recently like AA prizes for Unbuilt Works in year 2010 and she was the national finalist in SONA Superstudio competition in 2009 and 2010.

I truly feel proud of her as Red is a woman and she is a 100% Malaysian.

Red-painting Jay Chou with coffee cup stains

Red-painting Yao Ming with a baskettball.

More details of her can be found on the Web and this article is only to let people know about her presence.

-Sing Rui-