Still, he could n’t quite pinpoint the source of his discomfort, until he attended an exhibition at Gajah Gallery located in Tanjong Pagar Distripark: Customised Postures, ( De ) colonising Gestures.  ,
The show was about “reshaping the imperial glass, the colonial eye, and about how contemporary artists view these ancient photographs”, he shared. And it “opened my gaze to the reason the pictures felt this way.”
Unfortunately, Dunston’s critics, including AWARE in their first declaration before they apologised for misinterpreting his labor, accused him of this same attitude that he’d taken sufferings to shop. ” I know what they’re talking about. ( The gaze ) does exist. There’s a lot of it and it’s a true issue. But I felt really bad because they believed that I was even me, he said.  ,
” I was n’t thinking that I wanted to make ( the samsui woman ) glamorous. Really not disgusting, only not roughed up. I’m confident that they were, at specific points, in new clothes”.
The cigarette in the mural was basically the only thing that made sense, which was the primary source of conflict for authorities. ” At one point, we were like, maybe she could own a hen. The chicken did n’t work out. At another time, she did n’t have anything in her hands, her other hand was in her lap”, said Dunston.  ,
We simply liked the picture of the smoke ideal. My customer and I both decided that’s the best course of action after considering the situation as one of those that you’re looking at.”