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Guest Book Comments from YRP Community Arts Exhibition (1 - 14 September 2010)

  • Day 1
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  • Day 14

1 September 2010

  • Bravo I really liked Fuad’s painting and wish him the best for his career. Thanks.

    - Ghrislaine Som France

  • Talented Individuals, Best Wishes in your future art endeavors.

    - NAFA BA.F.A Students

  • I like the description to the pictures. It helps to understand the artist and the way they are thinking. Thank you.

  • Truly Amazing. I’m impressed beyond words. We need to hear more about these artist, especially Fuad!

    - Alvin and Hilda Anantham

  • Fantastic artwork! I was very impress with what I saw. Keep up the good work and I bet you’ll find a better life outside. Take care, God Bless.

  • I’m very impressed with all the art pieces. It shows a lot of thoughts and feelings of the inmates. Press on with the good work. We’ll extend the Second chance in society for you.

  • This is a wonderful idea and give these individuals the chance to display their works in such a amazing venue is incredible and moving!

  • 立体感把现代人心的状况呈现在画上，雕刻上，表现出现代人的困境。

2 September 2010

  • "Restart" - Jai totalement "acuoche" avec le tuwail de FUAD.

    - Pascafe from France

  • Very Imposing! Artist vision comes through cleanly and dramatically. Thank you!

    - Sujala Shiriraan

  • This exhibition is great and very meaningful at the same time we will learn something from them. Hope this event will continues on. Thank you.

    Hamidah & family

  • It is a good idea for inmates to share their feelings and thoughts with the public through art pieces. I hope that more people will get to see this exhibition.

    - Soh Chee Lip

  • This is a very interesting and meaningful exhibition, not only artistic but just though that to call for help and support from the community to give a Second Chance to “Restart”. We agree with that and will cooperate with you in the course to help inmates reintegrate in Vietnam. We hope to get support and cooperation from Singapore.

    – Head/ Director of Reintegration & Rehabilitation of General Department for Criminal Sentence,
    Execution and Judicial Support, Vietnam

  • Rather impressed by their creativity and the expression of their works. Wish that they can fulfill their dreams & aspirations!

    - Philip

  • Some emotionally moving works. Great experience.

    - Mei

  • This is a wonderful idea and give these individuals the chance to display their works in such a amazing venue is incredible and moving!

3 September 2010

  • Impressive! Food for thought for those thinking evil is a finite state. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us fellow citizens.

  • Really good painting and artworks! I am very impressed with the quality and creativity shown here. Keep it up & all the best!

    - Bernice

  • Very impressed with the variety, scope and skill involved in the creation of those works. Some in particular have indicated deep and thoughtful intellect.

    - Alex Thong

  • I am involved with a project helping Women in North Carolina, United States. This exhibition is amazing. I am so glad to run into this exhibition by accident. The quality of work & thoughtfulness behind each pieces of artwork is so high. Hope to learn more about your organization.

    - Yvonne Woonyu Ng

  • Very impressive artwork! Keep up the good work and all the best for your future endeavors.

    - C. H

  • I love the artworks! It’s very expressive. It gives us hope too. It makes us appreciate art even more.

    With Love- Teck Whye Secondary Students

4 September 2010

  • Great works! Please continue to raise awareness of the Yellow Ribbon Project.

  • Beautiful pieces particularly the acrylics and great inspiring concepts also.

  • Very nice the inmates can free their souls, for themselves and for the viewers.

    - Eric, Belgium

  • Very good art and thought provoking. I had my eyes opened. Congratulations on a very inspiring exhibition.

    - SF, UK Manchester

  • There is some real talent at work in the paintings. The thoughts & feelings conveyed are powerful. A surprising and moving exhibition.

    John Malaby, United Kingdom

  • Thank you so much for the opportunity to see such diverse, creative and wonderful work. Very moving and inspiring.

    - Caroline & Acienga, Canada

  • Very meaningful and insightful experience. Better understanding of the feelings of the inmates.

    - David Ng

  • Very impressive. Good job. Looking forward to your homecoming.

    - Sheane and Jack

  • This exhibit was the highlight of my visit. The Shield, I fell in love with. So much talent in each piece. I loved it.

  • It’s refreshing to see budding artist especially for people who are restarting their lives again. It shows the emotions of those artists which many people in today in the society we live in today lacked. I must say I am very touched by those emotion and feeling and am so glad to have seen this exhibit. – Congrats.

5 September 2010

  • I particularly enjoyed the ‘Storms of Temptation’, ‘My Confession’, and ‘The Butterfly’. Remarkable works.

    - Drew Mendelson, Sacraemento, California, USA

  • We never know what is good until you lose it”. Life has bad and good moments. In bad moments we need a hand to continue our way and don’t give up.

    - Alexandra de Jeus

  • It is remarkable and interesting that artist have given their skills and talents to try and help in the rehabilitation of people who have made mistakes in society. It is really good works.

    - Derek Challin, Auckland New Zealand

  • This morning I ran the 10 km Changi Yellow Ribbon Run. I wanted to support the cause of rehabilitation of offenders. Art too has its place in the rehabilitation process. Best of luck to all.

    - Pauline Appley

  • Really interesting expression from the artist. Hopeful for the future. Some of the pieces were so well crafted and composed. Fuad’s work is particular inspiring and so beautifully intricate. Continue your work.

    - Lil United Kingdom

  • I am very impressed by the work in the Yellow Ribbon Project exhibit. The artist have used different media to provide powerful visual representations of their experiences and hopes. Thank you to the artist in sharing this works with us.

    - Eleanor Kutz, USA

  • Hope everyone who finished his prison duty will find a new life.
    我看到很多画都画出你们内心的事和想法，很感动！也希望大家出来都有新的life!

    - Shiang Che Wei from Taiwan

  • Really enjoyed this exhibition. I think the Yellow Ribbon program is very positive and forward thinking project. There are clearly some very talented artist out there. I hope this project goes on to inspires a change of perceptions for the ex offenders. Thank you.

    - Guy Stewart

  • Very Inspirational, good work.

    - Daniele Tolori, Italy

  • Enjoyed the artists self expression, very profound and hopeful.

    - W.J, New Zealand

6 September 2010

  • May I congratulate each and every one of the artists. Looking at them makes me understand a little of your pain, your hopes, your nightmares. And there is so much creativity and deep reflection in each of them. I hope and pray for your future that you will garner your talents and allow others to appreciate what gifts you have. Thank you!

    - J Khoo (ex-lecturer)

  • A very inspirational exhibition.

  • Very touching artwork. Yellow Ribbon Project FTW!!

    - Settill

  • A moving and important art collection.

    - Hedwig

  • This is the first time for me to see the art of Singapore. There are various kinds of expression and I was so impressed by them. Although I am not good at art at all, I really love to appreciate art. I would like to visit here someday again.

    - Taeko

  • Ray of Lights I blew my mind, fantastic opportunity for inmates to express themselves.

  • Very Remarkable work

    Aaron Little

  • I hope that after drawing those photos it would bring them good futures and happiness to their lives!

    - Vernan

7 September 2010

  • Very good & encouraged! Hope there are more such exhibitions in the future at SAM!

  • 加油! Your works are amazing. We will accept you. Your art is inspiring.

  • The art and displays are so inspiring. Thank you for a wonderful day gazing at this amazing work.

  • They conveyed their feelings on their artwork as a picture speaks a thousand words.

    - Muhammad Amirul, Farhan Bin Hazrah, Muhammad Kaizal

  • Your artworks are amazing. You all have a good future. All the best in your second chance.

    - Puvaneswaran

  • Totally enjoyed all the art pieces! Thanks for the exhibitions.

    - Danny

  • It’s beautiful art that you made. Hang in there! There will be light at the end of the tunnel, of a second chance.

    - Jesse

8 September 2010

  • These works of art are truly inspirational. They are also very professional. I’m pleased we had a description of what each artist wanted to convey. Best to all the artist with their Restart into a new life.

    – A. Brown, Australia

  • Well done! I’m very impressed by the quality of the work you all have done. There is hope and future waiting for you.

    - Keong

  • To Fuad and all who are yearning to be with your loved ones – You will be with them again. Hope is there.

    - Audrey

  • Great work done by the inmates. Keep it up.

9 September 2010

  • Very Moving.

    - Lee Seo Joon

  • Awesome work! We are really impressed. All the best! You will be united with your loved ones and integrated back to the society.

    - Han Yu & Jiang Ying

  • Love the bright splash of colour.

    - Jason

  • Inspiring, thanks.

    - See Mong

  • Interesting work. Keep it up.

  • Very inspiring artwork. We were really impressed. Awesome stuff.

  • Why not have resident artist/ therapist working with these people?

  • Very emotive & eye opening.

  • Encouraging! We can see the beauty of forgiveness in this actual hope of being forgiven. Great art!

  • Really inspirational pieces. A wonderful idea!

10 September 2010

  • Impressive! Talent behind bars...... Wish them all the best in the future! Talent with no more bars.

  • Provoking. Thanks for the lovely exhibits.

    - Amelia, Singapore

  • Really inspiring work. Thank you. We all make mistakes and deserve a second chance, but we also need to re-earn trust.

  • Great Work! Wonderful! Tat Boon, I like your piece, ‘My mother’s love’. To the rest of the artist, keep up all the best R.E.A.C.H.

  • I love Fuad’s Works.

11 September 2010

  • Great display! All the best.

    - Glenn Low Jun Jie, Sharice Low

  • 4 Appreciative Souls.

  • Beautiful art! Inspiring lot of hand work for the art piece! I love it!

    - Albert Yam

  • Inspirational and great job done! This will show that chances are given to the needy! God bless!

    - Thomas

  • Great display! All the best to the artist!

    - Sally

  • The painting depict strong themes of reunification, love and hope. Inspiring & heartwarming pieces.

12 September 2010

  • Great display! Truly amazing artwork done by inmates… Wonderful paintings! I didn’t know the ex-offenders can paint so well. I love ‘Heading for Home’.

  • All the paintings and art pieces are simply amazing. I never imagined before that they (the offenders) are talented in arts. They will definitely lead a good life as an artist. Just give them second chance.

    - Mei Liang

  • Very constructive, encouraging for the inmates, I dare say and for us a chance to see things from their perspective. We wish them a wonderful new start in life and commend their works, they are so lovely.

    – Papallo family

  • Great effort. Some Inspirational pieces.

  • What an incredible exhibition. So amazed by the talented artist here. Fantastic, fantastic work. Keep painting and all the best!

    - Ewan

  • I like the man at the prison, who is thinking of his mother’s love. I hope every man and women, think love is the spirit of life.

    - Hanette Amsterdam, Netherland

  • I could see the hope you desire for. Believe & Persist. Society shall help you.

13 September 2010

  • A very thought provoking exhibition with a lot of very talented people. I really enjoyed the pyrography piece and have never heard of the Art form. Thanks.

    - Eric

  • This is one of the most powerful exhibitions I have ever seen, such talent and raw emotion involved in so many of the pieces.

    - Mike, UK

  • To Ong Bee Chuan. Wonderful! Express your thoughts! A German tourist comment on your art, and wants me to convey her appreciation to you and send regard to you. Start life a fresh.

    - Sis, Karen

  • Amazing and Inspirational in the reality of life and human existences.

    - Irma

  • Impressive! Very Professional.

    - Vassendra

  • Very nice exhibit.

14 September 2010

  • Very creative, imaginative and highly professional work! Marvelous exhibit because among other things like quality, the pieces has personal meaning.

  • Something to learn, very meaningful.

    – Janice Lim

  • Thank you. Inspiring for my daughter. Great to see humanity’s creative potential.

    - Geoff

  • Beautiful paintings and drawings of expression of hope. They will all succeed when they reintegrate into society.

  • Amazing, this make me very happy that people get the chance and the way to go out and start a new life.

    - Israel

  • Very interesting works and its encouraging to see the artist express their hopes and desires in an uplifting way.

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