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Deaf
Malaysian draws WikiLeak founder's portrait
Tuesday December 28, 2010 03:49:33 PM,
IANS
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Kuala Lumpur: TIME
magazine's year-end cover picture of WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange has been done by a deaf Malaysian artist.
New York-based Leon Lim's portrait artwork of Assange appears on
TIME's latest issue (Dec 27-Jan 3) that recognises individuals or
groups who made the news over the past year.
Lim, who has never met Assange, used the text of a leaked cable to
create a "new" face for the Australian journalist who has turned
the diplomatic world upside down by exposing government secrets
through his whistleblowing website.
Lim spent three days making six different versions, and sent a
copy of his "transformative work" to the magazine early this
month, The Star said Tuesday.
"I wanted to share my thoughts on why Assange should be the person
of the year. I certainly didn't expect to see my portrait of him
in print as the magazine has its own design team for artwork," Lim
told the newspaper from Manhattan.
The dramatic portrait apparently caught the eye of the magazine's
managing editor Richard Stengel, who recommended that it be used
with an article on Assange.
Assange, who has become the world's most talked about man, was
third runner-up in the magazine's list of newsmakers but emerged
as the Readers' Choice in a poll conducted by TIME.
Lim was a bit disappointed that Assange was not the top pick of
the magazine's editors but was happy the award went to another big
Internet name - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
While he admired Zuckerberg for helping to connect people around
the world, he praised Assange for his courage in exposing
government secrets to "set things right".
Getting his work published in TIME is a dream realised for Lim,
who has been reading the magazine since he was 11.
The artist has been deaf since birth.
"As a kid who never heard any sound or music, I was always
attracted to the magazine's bold colours, pictures and graphics,"
he said.
Lim, who left his Alor Setar hometown for the US 11 years ago on
an art scholarship, has made a name for himself, having held
several exhibitions in the US, Europe and Asia.
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