Art writing is normally regarded as a solitary activity. A writer first puts his/her words on paper, then he/she engages in thinking and providing feedback to him/herself, before putting words back onto the paper again. This process of rethinking, rewriting, retyping informs a writer that reflection is ever so important in the process of working out a piece of effective communique. For the public needs information on the processes of art-making, the aesthetics in appreciating an artist’s intention, and the social impact an art-work has on the very location they are working in. Art critic Lee Weng Choy, in his writing 5 Entries(1), summarised, cogently, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s questioning on the attributing thinking to the head(2), where two questions were raised, “Where does thinking actually take place? And what exactly is “thinking”? He was interested in how “we have been manipulating signs with meanings” (Lee). Besides locating thinking in our heads, according to Lee Weng Choy, it might be less misleading to say that thinking takes place with pen or paper.
