The theme of forgetting runs throughout Ng’s practice, drawing from Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Forgetting is not simply the inability to recall: it is the subtle erasure of history, identity, and memory, a process that shapes our lives without our awareness. Ng confronts this notion, questioning how collective and personal histories are obscured or deliberately buried. His paintings are an attempt to reclaim these lost fragments, reasserting their presence and significance. For Ng, painting becomes an act of recovery, a way to revisit and reinterpret memories and histories that have been neglected or forgotten. His paintings become a means to speak through silence, to give voice to what has been erased, and to depict the presence of absence.