I'm Yiming.
I'm a full-time medical student.
And a part-time creative.
I study medicine in the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. When I'm not at lecture, studying in the medical library, or playing sports, you can find me in my residential hall room working on illustrations.
When I was fourteen, I aimlessly stumbled upon an Instagram account with photos of cabins tucked in lush forests. As a city boy whose heart belonged to the countryside that he never got to explore, I immediately fell in love with these serene landscapes.
I could only imagine the stories that would unfold in those spaces. Intrigued, I began to draw them on my sketchbook.
My imagination soon got the better of me.
I experimented with wilder, bigger, more extraordinary landscapes. I thought of bolder stories to tell with my artwork.
Behind every artwork, is a world.
A history, of sorts.
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A background that, to me, is just as important as the illustration itself.
In medicine we are taught how to notice signs in patients and figure out what could potentially have gone wrong.
In my art I wonder about what's happening in our world today and what our future could look like – even if sometimes, it doesn't look good. Behind every landscape is a story, the sum of the lives of communities and generations, that could very well be real: if history played out different, if we hadn't known better; if we changed our course, or if we didn't.
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So I urge you to think:
How did we get here?