With a grateful heart, Malaysian artist pays tribute to his mother


Puah Chin Kok at his photography exhibition 'Family Pride' at Studio Setiawangsa in KL. He is standing beside a work titled 'Oan Seng Hua’s House. Site C, Sekinchan.' (Giclee print On Hahnemuhle German etching paper, 2015) which he hung in his mother's room when she lived with him. Photo: The Star/Glenn Guan

To a stranger, these might be little more than family photographs and school trophies and medals placed in a cupboard.

But to artist Puah Chin Kok’s mother, they meant the world.

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