But when I strayed one day into the Singapore Art Museum, those words and yes, my artwork, once more flashed before me. It’s like travelling back in time. Here I was in front of hundreds of recycled boxes in a boxed up art gallery room awed by the possibilities.

This room on the third level of SAM Garden fea-tured the work of Justin Lee entitled “The Art of Imagination.” Recycled cardboard boxes, ink transfer, and acrylic made up the very simple Lee media. The room greets you with Lee’s art pieces made of recyclable boxes. More than the artwork is Lee’s message. Large boxes spell out gallery’s theme by the entrance to the room. A few tables were laid out for viewers, mostly fam-ily groups where children tinker on the small boxes with their own expression. Two panels of layered large boxes were painted with Chinese charac-ters Xue (which means “Learn”) and Jue (which means “Feel”). Small box-

es were laid on the floor and some were piled on a shelf neatly mounted on the flat white wall. Kids can take the boxes with Justin’s drawings and paint their own drawings or write their own words on them. Justin Lee’s “The Art of Imagination” is an in-teractive installation with graphics and text painted on recyclable cardboard boxes. This work reflects

how text and images influ-ence and shape our daily thoughts and expressions. In Lee’s gallery, visi-tors are invited to explore popular local images, texts and motifs, and are en-couraged to unleash their own imagination by add-ing their personal draw-ings to this creative mash-up. They can also replace and rearrange the boxes to create a new message or image.

The artist, Justin Lee, has received awards from the Mont Blanc Artists World Patronage Project (2007), the Philip Mor-ris Singapore Art Awards (2005) as well as the High-

ly Recommended Award in UOB Painting of the Year (2003). Lee is well known for his representations of Sin-gapore society and lifestyle using a unique blend of eastern and western cul-tural icons. Some of his significant solo exhibi-tions include “Toy Nation” and “Double Happiness-Fantasy” in Red in 2003. I felt Lee’s simple but provoking works pick the imaginative brain while you are in front, of all things, boxes. Which takes me back to the question what I will feel if I had been put in a box. If I had been asked the same question all over again, I am more certain this time the answers could fill up a room.

By Neil Bravo

I had an artwork back in high school where my art teacher commented on. She wrote: “How do you feel like being put in a box?”

At that age, I did not mind its real meaning. Not even the inner meaning behind its real meaning.

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THEY say the taste of a wine varies on the year the grapes are grown, harvest-ed, fermented, and bottled, hence the importance of the vintage of the wine, making each wines character, unique. And looking for the perfect wines to keep in their cellar can become a daunt-ing task for an aver-age oenophiles, that is why they attend wine tasting events. The Swiss Deli at Lanang, together with Sommelier Wine Selec-tions, recently hosted such a wine tasting at the wine cellar of the Swiss Deli to help educate and inform the average urbanite of the complexities and nuances a wine has (aside from the alcohol everybody loves.) We were given a selec-tion of fine French wines to taste and evaluate while being paired with cheeses and a selection of sausages and meats. Among the selection of wines was the Chateau De La Liiquiere A Mi Chenim from (Languedoc, France, showing its brilliant color and yellowish tint, fresh, citirus aromas with citrus and white flower notes that is best paired with seafood, grilled fish and veal.

Another white wine, Champalou Vouvray Vin Sec from Loire Valley of France, is pale gold in col-or with green highlights, evoking aromas of apples and peaches mingling with lemons.  It is perfect with grilled pork with wok vegetables, seafood, fried cod and Japanese cuisine. Red wine enthusiasts will love the Les Demoi-selles De Falfas 2010. This fine Bordeaux has aromas of violets and tobacco with a taste of fresh black fruit and spices. It has light

tannins and is great with pasta. Another beautiful red is the Domaine la Croix Caringole 2010 that is easy to drink. The wine is fresh and supple with black ol-ive, herbal and mineral, cherry, meaty flavours. It is so nice and easy to drink and is great value for mon-ey. People who enjoy big, bold wines that really pack a punch will like this wine that is best paired with

steaks and dishes with rich sauces. Of course all my talk-ing will be for naught if no one would actually go and taste the wines I have mentioned. So try to visit the Swiss Deli Lanang and Matina and go French for a night or two (or three.) Follow me on twitter for more foodie finds, random thoughts, and happenings in and around Durian-burg.

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Mr and Mrs Butch PachecoThe Pacheco sisters.

Doris Villareal, moi, and Rochelle Venuti.Dalia Limbago, Beth Limbago and Cecil Co.

Benjamin of Sommelier Wine Selections shows off the finer points of a wine to guests.

The wine cellar at the Swiss Deli Lanang.

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CHRIS Brown appar-ently had an eventful evening last Wednes-day. The R&B star posted a picture on his Twitter page Wednesday that revealed a pretty gnarly gash on his chin, resulting in specula-tion that the cut was caused by an altercation involv-ing bottles being thrown between Brown and fel-low singer Drake and their respective entourages at a New York City nightclub. So what supposedly went down? E! News has confirmed with the NYPD that, at 4:08 a.m., officers responded to a call of disorderly con-duct at the WIP nightclub. Five victims suffered non-threatening lacerations and were removed to area

hospitals. There were no ar-rests and the investigation

is ongoing. “How u party wit rich

n**** that hate? Lol... Throwing bottles like girls?

#shameonya!” Brown tweeted along with the

photo, although both have since been removed from his account. There are reports that rapper Meek Mill was with Drake last night as well, and rumors are running rampant that the fight may have started because both men are believed to have romanced Brown’s ex, Rihanna. Mill has since posted a tweet this morning, say-ing simply, “It wasn’t me... (shaggy voice) lol.” No word from Drake on his Twitter page regarding the spat. Coincidentally, Mary J. Blige, according to the nightclub, also just hap-pened to be there, but she has yet to comment on Twitter about what may or may not have gone down.

CHRIS Brown might not be done tweeting about the brutal melee that erupted early Thursday morning be-tween he and his posse and rapper Drake and his entou-rage at the W.i.P. nightclub in SoHo. And while various reports indicate the “Run It” singer has since been interviewed by investigators probing the incident, the NYPD isn’t say-ing one way or the other. But one thing Brown’s camp definitely wants to clear the air about is the no-tion that he sent a peace of-fering to his rival. The 23-year-old R&B star’s management, Phase Too Inc., took to Twitter today to smack down reports that quoted witnesses as say-ing the Brown had a $2,000 bottle of Ace of Spades champagne delivered to Drake’s table—a gesture that purportedly prompted the Young Money enter-tainer to send back a note that read, “I am f--king the love of your life.” That re-ported note being a refer-ence to Brown’s 24-year-old ex, Rihanna, whom Drake hooked up with following Brown’s highly publicized assault on the “Disturbia” diva. Phase Too, however, called the story a crock. “There was no bottle sent to @drake and there was no note! Stop the lies,

TMZ/MTO!!!! There were no punches thrown, just glass,” tweeted his managers. Not long after photos surfaced showing broken glass strewn everywhere throughout the W.i.P. club’s interior, a spokesperson for Greenhouse, the SoHo club run which operates W.i.P., confirmed to E! News that the hot spot’s manager, Jonathan Cantor, was taken into custody by police today on two outstanding war-rants stemming from noise complaints there. Per the New York Daily News, Cantor was charged with a minor noise violation and is currently behind bars, but the bust supposedly has nothing to do with skirmish at W.i.P, which is located in the same building as Green-house. The arrest is sparking speculation that investi-gators might use his legal situation to lean on him for information about the feud. Police are also combing through the club’s surveil-lance video to determine who threw the first punch (and bottle). Such details would be most helpful to model Ingrid Gutierrez—who was sitting at Brown’s table when the fight went down—and was hit in the head with a bottle that left her bleeding. Her attorney, Sal Stazzul-lo, tells E! News his injured

client is aggressively inves-tigating all aspects of the fight and he is sending out subpoena’s to the W.i.P club to obtain the security videos as well as the names of all the waitresses, waiters, bar-tenders and security guards who were on duty. He is also getting a subpoena to obtain the names of all the patrons that used a credit card there that night. “We want to get the wit-nesses that eye witnessed the crime of assault with a bottle against Ingrid,” the lawyer said, adding that Gutierrez suffered bruises, stitches and trauma to her face. “Plastic surgery is prob-ably likely,” he added. “At this moment right now she is just getting treated.” Stazzulo noted the 21-year-old Brooklyn native has not been contacted yet by the police to tell what she witnessed with the row. Lastly, E! News can con-firm that a video that pur-portedly emerged on You-Tube and has been making the media rounds purport-edly showing footage of the fight is a fake. Along with Guiterrez, Brown suffered a gash to his chin and subsequently tweeted a photo of it in the aftermath before taking it down. While his bodyguard, Big Pat, sustained a nasty head wound.

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Chris Brown fights with Rihanna’s flame

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Lindsay Lohan found unconscious in her hotel room!?PARAMEDICS were called in to tend to Lindsay Lohan Friday morning after the actress was be-lieved to be unconscious in her hotel room. However, E! News has confirmed that while emergency services were called to the Liz & Dick star’s hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey this morning, Lindsay’s rep tells E! News the situation wasn’t quite as dramatic as it sounds. “Lindsay has been working a grueling schedule for the last couple of days,” Lo-han’s rep Steve Honig told E! News. “Last night she worked from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. She was exhausted and went back to her room to sleep. Producers were apparently con-cerned and called the fire department and paramedics found her sleeping but deter-mined that she was fine, just extremely ex-hausted and slightly dehydrated. “She is on her way home now to rest and will be back on set later today.” He added that no drugs or alcohol were involved in the incident. The Marina del Rey sheriff’s department, meanwhile, confirmed to E! News that para-medics responded to the hotel at 10:15 a.m. on the call of an unconscious person after the production crew tried and failed to rouse the actress and grew concerned. After paramedics arrived on the scene, Lohan woke up and responded to ques-tions about what had happened. She was

determined to be fine by those on scene and was at no point transported to the hos-pital. A source on the set, meanwhile, tells E! News that Lindsay left the set after wrap-ping up her scenes at around 8 a.m. She reportedly could return to work as soon as today, but everything is “totally up in the air” right now. The source added that the production was shooting on location at the marina, and that Lindsay was staying in a suite on the Ritz-Carlton’s upper floor. A member of the production staff dis-patched to Lindsay’s room this morning was “pounding” on her hotel suite door for sev-eral minutes, and after failing to receive any response from inside, they grew concerned, thus leading to the call to paramedics.