SPEAK CRYPTIC
  • ABOUT
  • DRAWINGS
    • SELECTED DRAWINGS
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • OPEN MY HEART, EASE MY TASK, LOOSEN THE KNOT ON MY TONGUE
    • FLYING SUPERMARKET
    • KNIVES IN THE WATER
    • SORRY, NOT SORRY
    • AGIT
  • INSTALLATIONS
    • AN OCEAN WITHOUT THE ANCHOR
    • THE SAME SIDE OF THE MOON ALWAYS FACES EARTH
    • IN ALL DIRECTIONS
    • CROSSING SHORES
    • KAMAR KAMILLION
    • FENOMENA
    • SLOW AND STEADY
  • MURALS
    • SING ALONG IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS
    • A STATE OF DECLINE
    • IN THE CLOUDS
    • MINOR CITIES
    • PRESENT CONDITION
    • KA-KHÉ
  • PERFORMANCES
    • ANATOMY OF A HEARTBREAK
    • THE TRIBE
  • SOUNDS
    • PRIMARY MOTIF
  • CONTACT
  • STORE
    • THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
    • FOUNDATION (NFT)
    • KNOWNORIGIN (NFT)
    • OPENSEA (NFT)
    • OBJKT (NFT)
    • CASTING CALL ZINE
    • BACKGROUNDS
  • LINKS
"CROSSING SHORES"
EAST COAST PARK, 2019
For Singapore Bicentennial Public Art Commission


Multiple faces of different ethnicities and origins are clustered together to form a single figure, emerging from the water and bound for Singaporean land. They are reminiscent of an unending quest for prosperity, viewing at the land as a source of business and prosperity, having journeyed from afar by boat across the seas. They are wrapped in a garment with patterns derived from the Malay Archipelago, the region which Singapore- or Tumasik- was part of before being a Crown Colony. Upon closer examination, their clothes are contemporary- speaking to the constant drift of migration we experience today.
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  • ABOUT
  • DRAWINGS
    • SELECTED DRAWINGS
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • OPEN MY HEART, EASE MY TASK, LOOSEN THE KNOT ON MY TONGUE
    • FLYING SUPERMARKET
    • KNIVES IN THE WATER
    • SORRY, NOT SORRY
    • AGIT
  • INSTALLATIONS
    • AN OCEAN WITHOUT THE ANCHOR
    • THE SAME SIDE OF THE MOON ALWAYS FACES EARTH
    • IN ALL DIRECTIONS
    • CROSSING SHORES
    • KAMAR KAMILLION
    • FENOMENA
    • SLOW AND STEADY
  • MURALS
    • SING ALONG IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS
    • A STATE OF DECLINE
    • IN THE CLOUDS
    • MINOR CITIES
    • PRESENT CONDITION
    • KA-KHÉ
  • PERFORMANCES
    • ANATOMY OF A HEARTBREAK
    • THE TRIBE
  • SOUNDS
    • PRIMARY MOTIF
  • CONTACT
  • STORE
    • THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
    • FOUNDATION (NFT)
    • KNOWNORIGIN (NFT)
    • OPENSEA (NFT)
    • OBJKT (NFT)
    • CASTING CALL ZINE
    • BACKGROUNDS
  • LINKS