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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
telok blangah temple
this is a very old temple located at telok blangah "tien gong miao"we've been engaged by the temple to construct a series of sculptures, let's start off from the main entrance , we are gonna construct 2 dragons curling around the entrance pillar on each side all the way up to the top of the main entrance with the 2 dragons facing each other. 1st, we need to construct the dragon's skeleton structure using 20mm-40mm iron rods then we weld and covered up the structure with wire mesh. its the most tedious part of the whole project b'cos all we used were some manual tools for us to bend and built up the entire structure. 2nd step is to apply 1st layer of cement onto the constructed iron dragon then followed by 2nd,3rd,4th layer then slowly sculpt the finishing.
born 21st feb 1979..started learning this skill from age 9 due to interest and family's gene.my grandfather is from china and while he was young, he was invited to hongkong to build the 1st haw par villa. over there, he met my grandma and gave birth to my dad so my dad is a hongkie. then both of them were invited to singapore to build the used to be famous haw pa villa at pasir panjang and my dad met my mum in s'pore then here i am. i'm the 6th generation in the KWOK family doing this arts.so i hope that i can bring more people of younger generation to know more about this very very special art.so,,feel free to contact me at 81131360 for anything to deal with arts...
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