Call of the wild: Hun’s take on the Leo star sign.
Tuesday September 20, 2011
Artist Hun Sosheak derives pleasure from seeing his work on living human canvasses.
PERMANENCE has no place in Hun Sopheak’s work. At most, his paintings will only last for two days, after which a good scrub with soap and water washes everything down the drain. But the body artist who uses an airbrush in his work doesn’t mind. Beauty, says this 27-year-old Cambodian native, is better appreciated when it’s fleeting.
Anything that’s labelled everlasting tends to bore after a while. Hun’s viewpoint is a reflection of his own life, which he compares to the changing panorama of his human canvasses.
Hun with current muse Farah Syuhada. “I still have vivid memories of gun and bomb explosions at the police station compound where we used to live. When I was four years old, shrapnel from ricocheting bullets got embedded in my mother’s leg. At that time, she was part of the Unicef team and had been posted to a ‘hard spot’,” says Hun, describing his early childhood in Battambang.
Hun, who was then living with his father, a propaganda cartoonist with the Cambodian police force, was spared the turmoil but this was a time when the childhood game of “police and thieves” were played with real AK47s.
“There was a pile of damaged guns lying on the scrap heap in the compound and the children promptly found a way to put them to creative use,” says Hun.
His move to Malaysia came about at age eight after his mother met a Malaysian soldier while working as a clerk at the United Nations office in Battambang. See pictures and read the full article here.
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