Lim constructs a highly condensed memory image of the vendor. By the late 1960s, this popular food seller no longer operated on the streets or were at least reduced in numbers. Lim, in a short-hand manner, creates an iconic form - Malay man seated on a stool, fanning the meat-on-sticks with smoke churning up in curly wisps. The silhouette of the hen pecking alludes to the pre-urban setting of the kampong. These small self-contained villages also lost due to urbanization, are an integral part of this act of remembering. Lim Mu Hue 林木化 (sometimes Ling Mu Hua, 1936-2008) is among Singapore’s leading artists who contributed towards creating a distinct idiom for modern art.
