The artist and the avocado



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MALAYSIANSKINI | He moved to Port Dickson 10 years ago to an old stone and brick bungalow, located in a secluded residential area surrounded by spacious grounds and deep, unruly green.

There was a tall avocado tree in the backyard, but it didn’t bear fruit for the first six years after it was planted. This was where Sharon Chin, her partner Zedeck Siew, and their little cats hid from the hustle and bustle of the city to focus on their creative art and writing.

“Life in the city is becoming impossible,” said Chin, an artist born in the 1980s who grew up in Petaling Jaya. He recalled his busy life in the city and pursuing one project after another after graduating from Melbourne in 2005.

Chin said that around 2011-2, he felt like he was getting lost in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

“I worked very hard, but I was not getting anything financially. I was not getting anything artistically. I had lost the trait of doing things that came from me.”

She made an analogy between herself and the people who left Omelas, a wonderful and prosperous city that exists because of an abused child in the dungeon. In Ursula K Le Guin’s story, the townspeople are aware that it will collapse if someone saves the boy.

Finally, Chin and his partner decided to drop their ‘Omelas’ and move on to PD to meet again.

“I think it was really a step into the unknown …

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