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    The Geology of Words

      ‘The Geology of Words’ is a two-part sculptural installation that explore notions of the
      process of reading. Through the analysis, processing and understanding of information,
      words are deconstructed and re-written into new forms of text.  The accumulation of text
      over a period of time, transform physical books into geological landscapes that are fossilized
      and archived within the mind.  Text reforms itself under creases and folding of papers, which
      form Geological reliefs of passing time. The reformation of text through its displacement,
      is explored through the layering of stacks of paper, which create different geology of words,
      that are overlaid and crushed within the surface pressure of time.  Over time, words and
      information that develop into thoughts become obscure. The crystallization of books and pages
      create a new visual movement to the displacement of text caused by reading.
 
      ‘The Geology of Words’ explore and interact with books and spaces on the shelves of The Ngee Ann
      Kongsi library. Focusing on the before and after effects of reading, and the similar archival of information. 
      The two-part installation consists of dehydrated, layered stacks of paper that form fossilized geological
      sediments, and crystallized literature books and pages that form new fossils of words.  The installation
      is completed with the books on the shelves and the perception of the viewers. 

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                     Beneath the Moon, 2015
                     Acrylic on paper
                     Dimensions Variable


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                    Hidden Alchemy, 2015
                    Acrylic on paper
                    Dimensions Variable

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                    Parallel Universes
, 2015
                    Crystallized book
                    Dimensions Variable  
                     

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                    Scientific Discovery, 2015
                    Acrylic on paper
                    Dimensions Variable

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                              Frozen Fossils, 2015
                              Acrylic on paper
                              Dimensions Variable

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                              Compressed Fossils, 2015
                              Acrylic on paper
                              Dimensions Variable




    Dialogue in Time

      'Dialogue in Time' is a series of sculptural installations that explore the disintegration of memory
      through different dimensions in time.  Through the progression of time, memories transform into
      obscurity, certain events thus, suffer the process of erasure.  This creates a depth in distance which
      is further explored through usage of the colour white.  In this series, white is used as a symbolic 
      demarcation of distance, erasure and frozen time.  Personal objects relating to childhood events
      have been used, as a form of symbolism and representation of the longing and absence; derived
      from the revisitation into childhood memories.  These objects contain traces of memories that 
      have been almost completely or partially forgotten.  This subtle and complete disintegration of
      objects and their surfaces explore the impermanence of memory.  The transition of these objects
      through various dimensions causes a time lapse within time itself.

      'Dialogue in Time' explores in the first half of the series, sequences of different objects and
      memories undergoing a lapse in time.  Similar objects placed in containers undergo a  sequence of
      time lapse shown through their positioning, which underlines an invisible connection with a physical
      force, that causes different movements and reactions of disintegration, in response to the first
      initial sequence. 
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              Dialogue in Time, 2015
              Found objects, crystals, acrylic containers,
              cassette tapes with audio recording installation
​              Dimensions Variable

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                            Departing Sorrow, 2015
                            Charcoal, fishing line, acrylic containers
​                            Dimensions Variable

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                           Ascending Knowledge, 2015
                           Abacuses, crystals, acrylic containers
​                           Dimensions Variable

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                            Decaying Romance, 2015
                            Found Objects, crystals, acrylic containers
​                            Dimensions Variable

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                            Tattered Morning, 2015
                             Socks, fishing line, acrylic containers
​                             Dimensions Variable

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                         Distant Future, 2015
                          Broken radio, candle compass, crystals, acrylic container
​                          Dimensions Variable

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                          Forgotten Dreams, 2015
                          Shoes, bird nest fibre, fishing line, acrylic containers
​                          Dimensions Variable

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                           Neglected Visions, 2015
                           Fishing lures, fishing line, crystals, acrylic containers
​                           Dimensions Variable

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                           Phantoms Depart, 2015
                           Polystyrene, fishing line, acrylic containers
​                           Dimensions Variable

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                           Nostalgic Remorse, 2015
                           Tin cans, crystals, acrylic containers
​                           Dimensions Variable

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                              Distant Past, 2015
                               Broken radio, broken compasses, crystals, magnets, acrylic container
​                               Dimensions Variable

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                              Distant Abyss, 2015
                              Tin Box, Marimoo, acrylic containers
​                               Dimensions Variable

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                               Sweet Loneliness, 2015
                               Candy Boxes, crystals, erasers, acrylic containers
​                               Dimensions Variable

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                              Yellow Encounter, 2015
                               Plastic boxes, quartz crystals, stone pierre, acrylic containers
​                               Dimensions Variable

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                           Fragmented Dreams, 2015
                            Cassette tapes, crystals, glass fragments, potpourri, acrylic containers
​                            Dimensions Variable

 


​   Dialogue in Time Part 2

      'Dialogue in Time' explores in the second half of the series, cold and unsettling memories of
      childhood that disintegrate through dimensional time.  The second half of the series is placed 
      in a dialogue with the first, accompanied with a piano recording of a piano lesson experienced 
      at age six, that marked the beginning of trauma experienced from playing the piano.  Having
      sectioned into one of the memories tied with the cassette tapes within the container, a hundred
      cassette tapes have been weaved into a broken net which, forms the second half of the series.
      The cassette tapes used are personal recordings of piano lessons experienced in my younger
      years.  The untidy weaving of the tapes and its disintegration act as a form of memory that 
      begins to corrode and crystallize over time.  This marks the obscuring and erasure of memory.

      The memory of playing the piano, similarly passes through various dimensions in time, with 
      the audio recording acting as the disintegration's lapse in time.  Thus, the recording within 
      the tapes suffer a time lapse, lingering on.

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                            Dialogue in Time, 2015
                            Cassette tapes with audio recording installation
​                            Dimensions Variable

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