The Collection of Objects features an assemblage of handmade wooden objects and the original forms they were originally derived from.
It is an assertion that humans inherently classify things in a way they understand them, and this influences what we do.
However, would a tree think of parts of its felled self as waste?
Or does a tree consent to being transformed into these ‘things’ we consider commodities?
Would the concepts of ‘things’ even exist in a world without us?
In this final assignment, I used an article from the official Omega Website. I wanted to find an article that featured a product because I am genuinely interested to learn how to shoot products better.
The main approach I took doing this piece of work was to use soft and indirect lighting via strobes. This is because the watch is a shiny metallic surface and direct harsh lighting will look very bad from experience in my test shoot.
Ofyto is a project combining biomonitoring technology and service design to monitor ozone pollution levels in Singapore. It aims to act as an early warning system for monitoring the levels of harmful pollution present in our air. Plants are highly sensitive to environmental pollution compared to human senses and artificial sensors. Through service design, introduce low-cost localized biomonitoring measures for ozone pollution. The goal is to promote better health and improve overall air quality in the environment.
This thesis investigates the concept of Bangsa Malaysia in terms of cultural aspects and the development of Malaysia’s national identity. This journey began with my exploration of the socio-political contexts of the lion dance throughout its historical development, leading to the ban of lion dance under the historical context within which the 1971 New Culture Policy formed in Malaysia. The idea of tiger dance emerged from this historical background and prompted me to use Tiger as the subject in exploring diaspora identities, mythology and cultural belongings in Malaysia.
This research derives from retrospection of my cultural background (Malaysian Chinese) and my particular interest in the dynamic nature of culture as a system of ever-evolving symbols. The outcome of this research is a mixed-media installation, Menjadi Rimau (To Become Tiger). Through this installation, I propose a socio-political and cultural imagination where the Tiger is presented as a supra-ethnic national identity. In this imagined space, the tiger ‘unified’ the people of the nation across their differences and their ‘lost origins’ caused by the history of enforced diasporas.
By re-examining a collective historical and mythological narrative, Menjadi Rimau serves as an open dialogue on diaspora identities in Malaysia, prompting a reflection on our cultural belonging to Bangsa Malaysia. Between fiction and fact, the work hopes to dissect cultural pluralism as part of a colonial heritage, and to offer a critical and poetic exploration of post-colonial discourses, mythology and diasporas.
swallow me (Again) is a time-based, multi-media installation that seeks to present an abstraction and exploration of the Mother Wound (the inter-generational pain passed between women in a line of inheritance) through the ritualization of physical motions in sculptural interaction.
The artwork presents a speculative emancipation ritual questioning the ideology of healing and its possibility in the context of something so innately present.
Perhaps the only way to end a cycle of trauma is to remove its latest vessel from the world.
