Delicate encaustic elements

As if ‘scenery underneath the feet’, encaustic tiles are a unique feature of the historical houses in Penang. As the main visual element of Kaki Lima, these encaustic tiles can be discovered on Kaki Lima’s cover, mission cards, action cards, scoreboards, coins and even the back of the cover. The design of the encaustic tiles on the cover is made up of several different encaustic tiles, looking unique and charming at the same time. Choon Ean admitted that this unintentional attempt surprisingly came out well. Notably, these encaustic tiles were first captured by the camera and then further produced, thus preserving the tiles’ mottled and discolored appearances due to the passage of time.

Reconstructing of what is at hand is an act of paying attention to the scenery in their daily life as well as a way of recording their lives. From this, we could get a glimpse of their powerful creativity and their subtle heart intending to introduce Penang to people.