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Jamie Archives - juesatta (CJ Photography)

May.June 2011

By Life Journal, Photography
"i'm waiting for dad"

"i'm waiting for dad"

It has come to JunEE. Another busy period where time is so retrained to update the website.

First we would like to express our deepest condolence to the loss of a great father, Mr Chan in the month of Fathers Day. Dear Jamie and Janic, it’s with profound sadness to hear that your father passed away. May your memories be your comfort.

When Murphy and I attended the wake of deceased Mr Chan, we had a good chat together with Jamie and Janic’s husband, Zhi-Wei. Of course the three of them have their own family now with children. So our conversation was mainly about family relationships.

They shared their experiences of being a husband and a father, on how to bring comfort to the ones they love. We  also discussed on family issues in society such as the effect on moral development of children with single-parent family.

I really appreciate that they shared the challenges at times and satisfaction of being a father, and ways to build and maintain good relationship with their spouse. They showed the key of happinEEss: truth, honesty, understanding, and devotion.

Thanks to the three fathers for sharing their valuable experiences. June, happy Fathers Day!

May all beings be happy. Sharing some shots taken in Melaka:

man of the house

man of the house

ritual

ritual

*

*

no trespassing

no trespassing

masked

masked

vocal

vocal

flying safe

flying safe

love (Cindy and Bear)

love (Cindy and Bear)

"i'll grow up"

"i'll grow up"

Meeting Jamie Chan again with his students and artworks

By Juesatta art, Photography
Ascetic gautama - clay art by Jamie

Ascetic Gautama - clay art by Jamie

Last week I went to visit Jamie Chan. Remember the post of Jamie Chan the animal lover last year on juesatta? Jamie is an art teacher.

When I visited Jamie during the evening, he was at his art class teaching a few children. There were five students. Due to the Chinese New Year period, children were having holiday so not many attended the class on that day. 

When I arrived, Jamie was writing Chinese calligraphy, then we started our chat with warm greetings. On my request, Jamie showed his artworks to me. I had a chance to shoot some photos of these amazing art pieces: twin-headed turtle, alien in an egg, lizard fossil, lizard, fantastic drawings, dinosaur teapot, and my favorite the ascetic Gautama. 

Later on, out of no where Jamie brought out his collection of his old drawings in his early years in primary school and secondary school. Jamie’s paintings were mostly freestyle, his brushes flowed freely with his feeling and mood. It was really interesting to see how Jamie improved throughout the years, and how his style evolved could be anticipated from his early years’ paintings.

Furthermore, Jamie loved clay art and did many in recent years. Most of them were made and colored then displayed in nicely decorated fish tanks in his class. These wonderful display in class, however would provide an artistic atmosphere and would inspire the students’ interest. These clay artworks were all my favorite especially the ascetic Gautame which seemed like a real unearthed artifact to me.  

Jamie and his partner, Joan are both art teacher of the class. Although the mother wasn’t there when I went, the daughter, Si Si was there learning from his daddy. A very artistic family indeed. And I know Jamie from his sister, Janic who is also a great artist and has recently resumed her art class too. I hope I have a chance to shoot Janic’s artworks in future. 

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Jamie the animal lover

By Compassion, Juesatta art, Photography

After my grandpa passed away early September this year, his pet a soft-shell turtle was left alone at grandpa’s old house. We decided to give it away to someone who is kind.

By asking around, I got to know Jamie through a friend of mine. He was very interested in adopting this creature when he heard from his sister.

However, I will skip this part of the story.

The soft-shell turtle was transferred to Jamie’s house which seemed like a zoo to me. Jamie loves animals and adopting many animals including iguana, dog, geese, many kinds of turtle, fishes, and so on. He is full of compassion for these creatures. That was the reason we wanted Jamie to have the soft-shell.

Jamie's family and neighbours with the soft-shell turtleJamie’s family and neighbours with the soft-shell turtle

Explaination of the iguana's nature by JamieExplaination of the iguana’s nature by Jamie

Surprisingly, I got to know Jamie is an art teacher. I had the chance to see some of Jamie’s artworks and was very impressed with them. One of those artwork, Jamie showed me the iguana  modelling he made from clay. It was looking so real that I was reluctant to touch it when I saw it. It took Jamie 3 months to complete this iguana.

The next thing Jamie showed me was the Spiderman wall painting which was about 1.5×1.5m in size on the wall. He did this because most of his students love Spiderman so much.There were some photos of the creative artworks shown by Jamie, and they were placed in Jamie’s art gallery. One day, I shall pay him a visit to his gallery and see more of his work and snap some photos.

I have to thank Jamie for sharing his artwork and also his kindness of adopting the soft-shell turtle.

Clay craft by Jamie - IguanaClay craft by Jamie – Iguana

Wall painting by Jamie - SpidermanWall painting by Jamie – Spiderman