Pic: Think Tank (2014) is a collaborative work with Roboticist Malaysia, supported by the National Art Gallery Malaysia.

 

Consistently Inconsistent

Consistency is the altar.
A blur, a brushstroke, a palette — repeated until it becomes a brand.
Style turns into currency. Discovery hardens into comfort.

But what if “signature style” is only boredom wearing designer glasses?

Consistency flatters the buyer, but shackles the maker.
Inconsistency unsettles the buyer, but frees the maker.
Both are strategies. Both are prisons.

To be consistently inconsistent is to refuse the altar.
To let each work shift, stumble, spark, and contradict.
To choose risk over repetition, becoming over branding.

Art is not obliged to soothe.
It is obliged to move.

Threads knot and unknot.
Gestures repeat but never the same.
The artist appears, disappears, reappears in another form.

Perhaps the only true signature is no signature at all —
only the freedom to shift, to risk,
to knot and unknot —
consistently inconsistent.

 

 

 

Work in progress 2025