Story 22

"Story 22", Acrylic On Canvas, 91.5cm x 122cm, Year: 2010.

Many people do not know that I am good at catching grasshoppers.

Years ago in my primary school days, whilst I was waiting for school-bus to fetch me home after school, I spent a lot of time catching grasshoppers.

I can still remember the grasshopper's body colour is a pretty fresh light green, and length of the body is only 1cm long on average. However, there was once when I saw an approximately 13-cm long giant grasshopper (told by a school-cleaner who caught it later) appear at the entrance of the classroom, flying around and some parts of the body colour were brown! Of course I dared not catch it then – I was too afraid...