Lost boys and girls

WHEN you enter the room located in a secret shophouse, you will see numerous beautiful paintings of children staring directly at you. But look closer and you'll find something quite macabre about the images - a maimed arm, a broken leg, a missing mouth or a pirate eye-patch.

These are no ordinary paintings. They were done by Singapore artist Huang Wei, who was a contemporary of the Nanyang artists. His obse…