SOME 1,000 Buddhist devotees carrying bags of vegetarian food offered alms to about 60 monks and nuns, a practice known as pindapata, at the first ever grand assembly of forest monks in Penang.
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Lefty’s on-site exhibition Sama-Sama: A Multi-Cultural Art Journey , which was supposed to show at George Town Festival, has been postponed to a later date. Photo: Lefty Kam
After a career that has taken him from Singapore to Shanghai, comic book artist and illustrator Julian Kam, better known as Lefty in the art scene, has come home to Penang.
He is taking a break from zombie superheroes and mutating germs to document a series based on childhood experiences and places.
From his
I Am Home series, Lefty has been spending these pandemic months exploring what it means to be Malaysian, a Penangite and the meaning of being truly at home.