PETALING JAYA: The movement control order has allowed many people to slow down and reflect.

For Ipoh-based contemporary artist, Chan Karwai, the relaxed sipping of Ipoh white coffee at a local cafe has allowed her to create her maiden artwork using coffee grinds, which is usually thrown away.

“My interest in the coffee shop waste was piqued when I had a conversation with the owner, who then gave me some dried coffee waste to experiment as material for creating art, ” said Chan, who operates her studio in Ipoh, which incidentally, is also considered home to the this special blend of coffee that is roasted in a manner to produce whitish looking beans, hence the moniker “white coffee”.

“Prior to using coffee waste, I last used charcoal to produce an image of (the late) George Floyd in homage to the Black Lives Matter movement, ” said Chan, who is famous for her oil paintings of various…



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