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Red Hong Yi's How To Paint Without A Brush revisits a decade of art-making and contains a do-it-yourself guide

How To Paint Without A Brush by Malaysian artist Red Hong Yi revisits a decade of art-making and contains a do-it-yourself guide.

PHOTO: STUDIO RED HONG YI

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SINGAPORE – Malaysian artist Red Hong Yi once created a portrait of action star Jackie Chan using 64,000 chopsticks and made a kopitiam uncle for Resorts World Las Vegas with 18,500 tea bags.

She even set her version on a cover of Time Magazine ablaze in 2021 after painstakingly arranging by hand 50,000 matchsticks into a world map.

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