It looks like the lines created using thick brush of grey forms at an unknown starting point. Like a trip taken with no starting and no ending. And the next thing you know you already on an endless journey. It went on and on. We all have experienced an endless trip especially when it becomes a routine in our daily life hence it will only change when we take a step back and recalibrate.
This abstract work probably depicts the magnificence of Mekong River, the world's twelfth longest river and the sixth longest in Asia, with an estimated length of 4350km.
Goh Beng Kwan is a Singapore art legend, winning the Cultural Medallion in 1989, the 1st Prize of the UOB Painting of the Year in 1982, 1st Prize Australian Business Council and Australian High Commission awards, silver medal in the Salon des Artistes Francais (1985), and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) residency in 2006. His baptism in art was a virtual 10-year personal tutelage by two great Singapore art pioneers Chen Wenhsi and Cheong Soo Pieng, learning Chinese ink and calligraphy. Studies at the Art Students League in New York, under Sidney Gross, changed his course to abstract expressionism, while a Provincetown workshop in Massachusetts put him in touch with collagist Leo Manso. At STPI, he also met paper-maker Richard Hungerford.