About the Artist
Yee Heng Yeh is a writer, and Mandarin-to-English translator. His poetry has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Malaysian Millennial Voices, Strange Horizons, NutMag, A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English, Apparition Lit, Antithesis Journal, and was shortlisted in the Malaysian Poetry Writing Competition 2021. His translations of poetry have appeared in Mantis and Nashville Review. He also writes plays and occasionally short fiction. You can find him on Twitter @HengYeh42.
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About the Residency
During his residency, Heng Yeh has been working on a series of ekphrastic poems—poems written in response to artworks. Though ekphrastic poetry typically focuses on describing a work in detail, Heng Yeh is also interested in the process of art making itself and the role of the artist, exploring the common threads that drive creation. These poems therefore engage in dialogue with the forms and practices of the works in Rimbun Dahan’s gallery, as well as of the other resident artists.
Heng Yeh is also writing poems in response to the wildlife he has encountered during his residency. These poems uncover links between human and non-human perspectives to question the urban notion of Nature as an “Other”. So far, his subjects include mosquitoes, macaques, snails, and the resident cats and dogs.