About
Writing
Museum Work
Others
Guided by anecdotes, dreams, and personal sharings from individuals who commission the works, I make art for living spaces and occasions. My works are mainly anchored in ink-based illustrations, with other elements and mediums introduced to provide more fertile spaces for exploration and storytelling. If you are interested in commissioning a work, please get in touch with me via my email.
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SG51 - I Will Not Celebrate Singapore (2016)
This short video work is a pastiche exploring propagandistic rhetoric, picking apart the signifiers and symbols inherent to the SG50 Jubilee Year Campaign. Beginning with the Greek notion of myth as intricately tied to rhetoric, the video satirizes the occlusion and splicing of various narratives and historical accounts that ultimately interrogate and feed back into the “noble lie”. Launched as an actual campaign accompanied by other on-site elements, other forms of public interest and intervention into urban spaces were, as a result, also attendant to the lifespan and public trawl of this work.
Writing
Museum Work
Others
// Creative Projects //
instagram.com/becominglaurel (Present)
This page is a companion space to my writing site in the form of drawings, practice, and reflections.
This page is a companion space to my writing site in the form of drawings, practice, and reflections.
personal elucidations
// Commissioned works
Guided by anecdotes, dreams, and personal sharings from individuals who commission the works, I make art for living spaces and occasions. My works are mainly anchored in ink-based illustrations, with other elements and mediums introduced to provide more fertile spaces for exploration and storytelling. If you are interested in commissioning a work, please get in touch with me via my email.
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narrative-based, responsive practice
Lectio Fortieth: The Lenten Book Project (biennal, beginning 2018)
Inspired by similar movements around the world where you can purchase "surprise" books, this project gives out 40 carefully selected spiritual reads (lectio fortieth!) to accompany 40 individuals through Lent. Each book is accompanied by a drawing and spiritual quote that are prayerfully pieced together based on the individuals’ needs and movements in the given season.
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Inspired by similar movements around the world where you can purchase "surprise" books, this project gives out 40 carefully selected spiritual reads (lectio fortieth!) to accompany 40 individuals through Lent. Each book is accompanied by a drawing and spiritual quote that are prayerfully pieced together based on the individuals’ needs and movements in the given season.
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/// Discursive explorations
Petrified Time (2015)
In a world where production time permeates our lives, this interactive installation manifests as an interaction between the self and other that is mediated by a world of spectacular images. The displays aimed to use the idea of petrified time to examine the various “rituals” that we undergo within the context of this production / capitalist time that we live in, thereby contriving a perpetual present. In doing so, the intention is for the audiences to be opened to the emptiness that such rituals, images and time for production denote, ultimately, to wake the spectator up from his spectacle-induced slumber.
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In a world where production time permeates our lives, this interactive installation manifests as an interaction between the self and other that is mediated by a world of spectacular images. The displays aimed to use the idea of petrified time to examine the various “rituals” that we undergo within the context of this production / capitalist time that we live in, thereby contriving a perpetual present. In doing so, the intention is for the audiences to be opened to the emptiness that such rituals, images and time for production denote, ultimately, to wake the spectator up from his spectacle-induced slumber.
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Curios (2016)
A periodical published by students of Tembusu College consisting of opinion pieces, interviews, pesonal narratives, art features, among others. The 2016 issue focused on “in-betweens” as a way to critically and intimately examine society, community, and human experiences.
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A periodical published by students of Tembusu College consisting of opinion pieces, interviews, pesonal narratives, art features, among others. The 2016 issue focused on “in-betweens” as a way to critically and intimately examine society, community, and human experiences.
[Read more]
SG51 - I Will Not Celebrate Singapore (2016)
This short video work is a pastiche exploring propagandistic rhetoric, picking apart the signifiers and symbols inherent to the SG50 Jubilee Year Campaign. Beginning with the Greek notion of myth as intricately tied to rhetoric, the video satirizes the occlusion and splicing of various narratives and historical accounts that ultimately interrogate and feed back into the “noble lie”. Launched as an actual campaign accompanied by other on-site elements, other forms of public interest and intervention into urban spaces were, as a result, also attendant to the lifespan and public trawl of this work.