SWEET TIME

SWEET TIME WENG PIXIN

Vibrant swatches of paint build resonant portraits of heartache, childhood memories, and loneliness Sweet Time is an intimate rumination on love, empathy, and confidence. Singaporean cartoonist Weng Pixin delicately explores strained relationships with a kind of hopefulness while acknowledging their inevitable collapse. Her stories are like a series of snapshots in a photo album or the brightest highlights from an Instagram profile. Gorgeous image follows gorgeous image in a delicate quest to find connection. A night out turns into a chance encounter that is at first ecstatic and then quickly descends into awkwardness. A round of “he loves me, he loves me not” becomes a way of reading every action taken by a distant love interest. A couple find themselves in an artificially beautiful landscape, but the relationship can’t survive their difference of opinion on the illusion of its beauty. In Sweet Time, thick and bold strokes of color mingle with delicate lines. Weng combines the colorful realism of Maira Kalman with a gentle wit and introspection all her own, crafting infinitely relatable stories of everyday life and love now.

WENG PIXIN

Weng Pixin (Pix for short) was born in 1983 and grew up in sunny Singapore. She loves nighttime rainfalls, reading non-fiction books, and eavesdropping on sing-song conversations among the toads who live right below her apartment. Pixin grew up listening to stories by her father, who was curious about nature, humans, and the relationship between the two. In turn, when it came to her art, Pixin loves to create semi-autobiographical comics and stories that reflect and express her curious nature too. Sweet Time is Pixin’s first comic published by Drawn & Quarterly. It is composed of a selection of stories, comics, and visual vignettes made between 2008 - 2017, capturing themes of loneliness, disconnection, and connectedness.