Faded Revelry draws the viewers into the fleeting grandeur of industrial celebrations. The painting captures the layered memory of a factory opening, where the presence of an imported Daimler Conquest, a nod to Minister for Finance Lim Kim San’s visit to the Malaysia Net and Twine Company in Jurong, signalled the factory’s economic significance.

By juxtaposing the vibrant banners and festive tentage of the opening with the overgrown, abandoned warehouse that remains today, the work evokes a sense of how onceexuberant moments of triumph have quietly faded into the past.