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Singaporean artisan family keeps religious effigy art alive / 348K936
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Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn into the wood over 70 years of making Buddhist and Taoist deities in her shop, one of the last of its kind in Singapore.
Facing competition from mass-produced items and lacking heirs to take up the trade, the traditional craft is in danger of dying out. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES