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Singaporean artisan family keeps religious effigy art alive

Keeping religious effigy art alive

In a time of mass-produced items, family still makes wooden statues by hand.

Singaporean artisan family keeps religious effigy art alive

Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn into the wood over 70 years of making Buddhist and Taoist deities in her shop, one of the last of its kind in Singapore.Her son, 71-year-old Ng Yeow Hua, runs the shop, making, selling and repairing Taoist and Buddhist idols for temples and devotees.

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