Taking Routes : Routed to the Spot #1 (2022)
61 x 46 x 3.5 cm
HMA on Canvas
Traveling in and out of the estate, see people making their way to bus stops and the train station that service the area. Before the MRT was constructed, it was a ‘longkang’ that ran along instead, and the routes laid out were ones that had no intention to commute out of the area, but to head into the ‘longkang’ to catch fish and tadpoles.
Bottom middle in photo of 4.
In Taking Routes, the journeys of Tanglin Halt residents, past and present, was the focus of my ongoing study of tracing our overlooked everyday rituals. In this study, the routes were shaped from stories of individuals to create a personalised map of their daily journeys. The subjects revisited memories and shared stories of living and working in the estate, treading the same paths with different intentions, locating common destinations with different routes laid out…
I then took these separate routes and overlaid them to create a combination of courses taken around the estate, each an exploration of the journeys and how they could have interacted with each other. These personal seemingly mundane rituals, combined with my technique of applying repeated layers of HMA, have resulted in the landscapes visualised in this show.
Read more about the show here.
If you have any questions please email me at [email protected].