Dorothy Yuan Dorothy Yuan

Music That Paints: Linying

Paris 12 paints a busy yet isolated street, capturing the essence of feeling alienated and dissociated in a fast-moving world. Nonetheless, Linying’s voice gently guides you down the path, slowing your surroundings down in a way that envelopes you in the warmth of solitude. It’s a major understatement, but the only way I can describe it is, ‘pretty’. A beauty that’s delicate, yet precise.

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Dorothy Yuan Dorothy Yuan

Living Among the Dead – Conversations with a Cemetery Keeper

A girl frolicking; an old man beckoning. Both in a cemetery; both as eerie.

This old man was the cemetery keeper, and the girl was me. When I first studied Clear Brightness by Boey Kim Cheng in Literature class, a poem about grave exhumation, my incomprehension sparked an intrigue. Consequently, this led me to the Chinese cemetery, hoping to gain a first-hand understanding of the cultural problem.

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