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Particularly eye-catching among John Lie A Fo’s latest creations, are the black and white, almost playful paintings of birds, which in their titles all contain the suffix, ‘for my dad’. And while birds have long been a quite familiar and favorite subject in the art of John Lie A Fo, it is the technique and monochrome color palette, that makes this collection stand out. With regular paint and brushes on canvas, he mimics the Chinese technique of ink on paper, and thus pays homage to his father who used to be a journalist for a Chinese newspaper and spent his spare time doing calligraphy and …