Looking back into a window, I arrive at a fortified coast. You drive out from this room - the water - feeling surrounded by invisible seas, we trace a garden, building a temporary surface obscuring the wind

photographic series

Inspired by the loss and opacity associated with Singapore’s ever-morphing landscapes – embedded in its fatalist narratives, fortified borders and land reclamation – the work is a series of abstract constructed images that meditates upon notions of reflective nostalgia as a method for memory formation, in relation to land perpetually developed, destroyed and transformed under  relentless mirage-like speed. Informed by psychogeography, surviving archival sources of Singapore’s development, and the biographical circumstance of my late grandfather – whose work surrounded constructing and surveying temporary sites – the work’s images fantastically reimagines mental landscapes that attempts to merge and reconstruct both personal experiences walking around and tracing Singapore’s fortified borders, and a long-forgotten, even outmoded past, altogether trying to self-locate within and relate to a ambiguous collective history.