Aliwal [2020]
To catch wandering eyes with brilliance but welcome (and permit) wonder from little ones - as imagination punctuates a pattern from pausing and pondering Singaporean prose.
Built from a base of old foundations and patterned by cockerels reminiscent of a childhood in Singapore; overlaid with fragmented new realities of a city that grew so quick that an interpretation from the generation in-between looks like an urgent dengue dream. [ >42° ]
The landscape format allows for a subtle triptych cut of the work which fuels the asymmetry and quiet chaos of the piece + While the incorporated QR code lives in a vibrant windowsill, almost disguised as its ventilation-brick counterparts.
A work that forays into unabashed play as I explore and confront the anxieties of going full time as an artist, writer, and mental health advocate after a late adulthood diagnosis as a woman with Aspergers and ADHD after a life of abuse and addiction.
The CMYK rebirth of a Chinese(Eurasian) girl.
