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English Calligraphy Competition
        An Exclusive Interview with the                                                      Q: What made you join the
                                                                                             competition?
        Champion
                                                                                             A:       Well, I am a member of the

                                                                                             Western Calligraphy Club, so I got
                                                               Reported by:
                                                        JR2Z(2) Ong Chen Xi                  to  know  about this competition
                                                                                             pretty  early  on.  I  joined  mainly

                                                                                             because I thought it was a fun
        From the 7th to 15th of July, the Western Calligraphy Club organized                 little opportunity to put my skills

        a calligraphy competition held over Google Forms. Its goal was to get                to the test.
        people interested in the art, and was open to both club members and
        non-members alike. Among other instructions, participants could only                 I also value other people’s

        use watercolour or brush pens to make pieces in the brush lettering style.           opinions and use them to

                                                                                             improve. While calligraphy does
                            The competition instructions                                     have its general rules (like how


        As seen above, the Junior category participants could choose from                    upstrokes  are  written  with  less
        the sentences “Thank you to the healthcare workers at the frontline”                 pressure and downstrokes are



        and “Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you”. Meanwhile the Senior             written  with  more),  it’s  also  a

        category could choose from the sentences “We are not living in fear, we              form of art, and art is subjective.
        are living in faith” and “We are stronger in the places we have been broken”.        For my own piece, I would love to
                                                                                             hear people’s opinions on what I
                         The Junior category winner’s piece                                  could’ve done to improve it, like


        The competition was divided into the Junior and Senior categories,                   suggestions on how to fill in the


        and its results came out on the 26th.                                                weird  little  space  between  the

                                                                                             words “we have” at the bottom,
        To learn more about the inner workings of calligraphy, we interviewed                or how they would’ve decorated

        the first-place winner of the Senior category, Chelsea Chua Si Yu from               the other empty spaces in the
        Sr2ScD.                                                                              piece.


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