My very 1st solo art show at Minut Init

So I had my very 1st solo show somewhere in the 3rd week of May this year, 26th May on a Friday night where it was the night before the eve of Ramadhan, the fasting month here in Malaysia. Still, the show must go on, it did and it was pretty damn awesome. I really have to thank my FTP family and the interns and sound fella at Minut Init , they really did help make this show happened.

This was the time lapse video of a catscatscats wall mural I drew at the gallery on my opening night, the guy next to me drawing on the bottom left is my artist , illustrator friend Ryu.

So my solo show was called CATSCATSCATS because all 40 pieces of artworks are about cats in various ways, denouements in life, some cat puns and as pop culture and rock icons. Some are pretty bitchy, sarcastic and cynical, as most cats are, well some. Not all of them are douche bags . People did ask me how did I end up drawing cats, so here's the whole nine yards of it. So one day I randomly started drawing cats for my merchs on redbubble, why cats? I really don't know,to be honest. Ok, this might sound totally crazy but have you ever felt like some kinda invisible force pushing you or just giving the nudge, the urge to just draw and then when you do, you just can't stop? (yeah, like RCHP's song, which is almost similiar kinda feeling) So I drew random cats doing random cat stuffs and then I did my version of cat in the hat and then I did my rendition of Totoro and then I could not anything else but cats! So I decided, why the hell, might as well do cats for my solo show...I'm still drawing cats nowadays but with additional variations in the weirdest way.

So the show turned out to be pretty awesome and cosy. My FTP family played till the cows came home, my other friend's band The Maharajah Commissions opened the show,which was crazy noise coolness. Who is FTP?We are actually a collective of musicians and artists (including me) who just create and make art from the heart and soul, pretty passionate, we are. When I told them about my solo show, they immediately jumped in to organised the whole show from promotion to the band listing for the night. Dali and James, my friend who owns and runs Minut Init, the art space are really good people, they are artists themselves.Dali has more than 4 jobs, James is a mass comm lecturer who has a beautiful 1 year old Bjorn (his son)and his wife, Kristina. I still owe both of them the rental for the space for my show, they as-a-matter-of-factly said "No worries, just pay us when you have the cash, pay part by part, we are good,May" I so far only paid them 1/3 of the payment, these boys are really the best bunch of friends I've ever have.Bless their hearts! I am truly thankful for this bunch of crazy people whom I love and call friends ! Without them, I think my show would had been "just another art show" I will be posting up another entry about them, soon. Thanks for dropping by and keep on rocking in the free world!

These were the beginnings of me drawing cats illustrations

Cat in the hat

Random catscatscats

Totoro

You can find my catscatscats on redbubble if you wanna check them out
https://www.redbubble.com/people/iammay