Stories Under The Sun is a project meant to invoke nostalgia by having us revisit childhood memories and to encourage personal storytelling. With a series of theme-curated boxes, it hopes to bring us back in time through interaction with the old school items inside the boxes.
Be reminded of the innocent, carefree days and add on to the collection of personal stories from our fellow Singaporeans. Start a conversation with friends or share them with others through the project’s platforms. Stories Under The Sun wishes to revive memories through stories and to retell Singapore’s history in the eyes of our younger self.
Share precious memories and together, let us reminisce and create a collective of locally flavoured stories.
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Codex Golden looks at the Golden Mile Complex. A building whose value has been questioned and contested through the decades,
it is now deemed rather irrelevant towards urbanisation and development. Yet to me, it is a place of significance where family ties, friendships and relationships are forged.
Places can be seen as specific sites that hold our experiences. It holds a unique moment where the mind, the body, and the world are aligned. They make sense out of each other and create a permanent impression in our lives. Places morph, extend and diminish. Each time we revisit them, it has the ability to build upon newer experiences or make greater meaning out of the older ones. They do so according to the people that you are with, the stage that you are in life and the situations that the universe chooses to put you in. Hence, it is a chanced occurrence yet highly specific and intentional. Each experience in a place is not replicable. They build upon each other and are a way of understanding life.
Codex Golden is a site-specific project which is essentially a collection of experiences put together by me trying to answer the following questions: What does a ‘Place’ mean? How do we deem if it is ‘Of value’? More importantly, how do we make sense out of these ‘Places’? This is performed through the act of Walking— a common thread that holds all experiences together.
