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As befits a sequel to his well-received autobiographical show early in 2010, My Story II continues with a montage of relatively more light-hearted vignettes from the life of Singaporean painter Wong Shih Yaw, with the majority of paintings drawn from fond memories of his childhood or adolescent years, as opposed to traumatic adult incidents. Presented in ‘glorious technicolour’ (in that the artist has used more vivid, stronger colours this time around), the paintings continue to be executed in a graphic woodcut style reminiscent of nostalgic scenes of social realism from the early to mid-20th century, but we also observe the series evolving into a more painterly and symbolic direction.