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SCULPTURE 46 : IRONSMITH

ADDRESS : NO. 356 LEBUH PANTAI `Ironsmith’ on Lorong Toh Aka telling the modern youth on the striking of the iron with still can be heard along the street where the tools to be fashiered instered of machine.
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SCULPTURE 35 : PROCESSION

ADDRESS : NO. 149 JALAN MASJID KAPITAN KELING   `Procession’, was one of the metal sculptures to appear and celebration both a person and event. Zhang Li, a mid-18th century scholar of Hakka descent, while sailing to Sumatra with two companions, was blown off course, and forced to land in Penang. After their deaths, Zhang Li and his companions were buried in graves at what is now the Tua Pek Kong Temple in Tanjong Tokong, built in 1799. Over a period of time the local Chinese began to venerate Zhang Li as a god of prosperity, bestowing on him the title, Tua Pek Kong. During...
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SCULPTURE 34 : AH QUEE?

ADDRESS : NO. 224 LEBUH PANTAI   `Ah Quee’ typifies the story of the penniless immigrant who made good. Ah Quee, aka Chung Keng Kwee, was born into a peasant Hakka family in Guangdong, China in 1841. In his aged of 20, was sent by his mother to Malaya to search for his father, who had travelled there previously. Chung Keng Kwee’s home and his Ancestral Temple, which he built for the worship of his ancestors both are located on Church Street, Penang. In this piece was see a European businessman struggle to pronounce Ah Quee`s name while greeting him ; notice too the traditional...
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SCULPTURE 33 : THEN & NOW

ADDRESS : NO. 89 LEBUH ARMENIAN   This sculpture is more related to some traditional occupations, all currently under threat. `Then & Now’ traces the changes in local occupation on Lebuh Armenian, formerly a centre for copper smithing, to today`s less glamorous recycling of old newspapers and assorted containers.  On the left of the sculpture shows a Malay worker, surrounded by a hanging array of the pots and pans he has already made, is busily fashioning yet another brass pot, while at the same time being distracted by the guni man. Our `guni’ (a type of bag), or rubbish...
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SCULPTURE 32 : SHORN HAIR

ADDRESS : NO. 194 JALAN SUNGAI UJONG   `Shorn Hair’ is another sculpture shows in the case using yellow chin to `moor’ the customer`s boat to the fire hydrant. The barber`s tolls of the trade are faithfully rendered while the hair being cut is shown being thrown into the adjoining canal.
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SCULPTURE 31 : KANDAR

ADDRESS : NO. 48 LEBUH AH QUEE   `Nasi kandar is a popular Malaysia dish, available twenty-four hours a day, that originated with Tamil Muslims hawking home-cooked curries from containers carried on a ‘kandar’ or wooden yoke across their shoulders. Originally this `food on the go’ was carried to manual labourers, working outdoors, but it has become widely recognised as a staple choice for all. Today the rice is typically served with several dishes such as fried chicken, mutton and seafood, and a selection of curry gravies. This sculpture shows a hawker striking the same...
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SCULPTURE 30 : ROPE STYLE

ADDRESS : NO. 66, LEBUH KIMBERLY    Rope walk was named after the rope-making activities the street.
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SCULPTURE 29 : 3 GENERATIONS

ADDRESS : NO. 143 LEBUH KIMBERLY   A plate of steaming noodles and a hawker`s stall might not be the easiest of subjects to capture in black metal rod, catches superbly the look of a recent convert to the joys of hawker food, and to char kway teow in particular, as he approaches a hawker stall. Finely observed detail in this piece include the flames under the work, a cabbage, bottles of sauce on the stall, and the infant mimicking his father`s actions by adding milk from his bottle to a second wok.
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SCULPTURE 28 : DUCK

ADDRESS : NO. 68 LEBUH PANTAI   Looking somewhat incongruous in a narrow alley in George Town’s business district, `Duck’ sculpture mark an area where formerly poultry was sold. It is a typical example of the final sculpture that explored the use of colour, as well as other materials beyond the initial black metal rods.
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