THOMAS
Title: An In-between Of A Between
Keeping only a body of water within its frames. It uses the subtlety between one state to another to push its agenda. Bringing forth to its focal point the question of subtlety and differences.
At what point does subtlety fade into insignificance. If a difference is inconsequential, can it still be as important.
'An in-between of a between' tries to encapsulate such questions between the faint distinctions of each imagery.
MAYANG
Title:Wave/engths
A play on words separating the words wave and length as if a border disrupting it. An amalgamation and transfiguration of archived images of shores and modes of transport that overcame the vast seas. Highlighting the limbo, neither here nor there, of identity.
Corroding each picture, burning layers. Leaving the residues diffused into one another. Liquefying the images to create a flow and fluidity to the chaos of the remnants. Even with the constant changes ongoing in one’s lives, the water remains unchanging. Docks transporting people from island to island using ferries & boats, seeing distant islands on the horizon. A representation of movement and migration. A mode of transportation commonly used today to travel across large bodies of water. A machine made of metal & fuel able to soar across long distances, putting in trust of a heavy object to fly in the air, is pretty ironic. The waters will always remember, No amount of infidelity will make them leave,Even as times passes & memories get distorted, Nothing truly is forgotten by them.
A play on words separating the words wave and length as if a border disrupting it. An amalgamation and transfiguration of archived images of shores and modes of transport that overcame the vast seas. Highlighting the limbo, neither here nor there, of identity.
Corroding each picture, burning layers. Leaving the residues diffused into one another. Liquefying the images to create a flow and fluidity to the chaos of the remnants. Even with the constant changes ongoing in one’s lives, the water remains unchanging. Docks transporting people from island to island using ferries & boats, seeing distant islands on the horizon. A representation of movement and migration. A mode of transportation commonly used today to travel across large bodies of water. A machine made of metal & fuel able to soar across long distances, putting in trust of a heavy object to fly in the air, is pretty ironic. The waters will always remember, No amount of infidelity will make them leave,Even as times passes & memories get distorted, Nothing truly is forgotten by them.
ALICE
Title: Lines and Ripples of the new Mundane
Such scripts make it relatable, how we almost feel out of place to what is foreign and have yet to adapt. In which the powerlines expand and occupy our minds, making us wonder of its existence and remind us of our homeland, though we hardly find any of them where we are now. Ripples push to slowly forget our past's amenity, to make way for the new norm.
The imagination of birds in the fleeting- I gathered image from back home in the Philippines- there are no cable wires/powerlines here in Singapore- if I ever get home again, it would feel so familiar, but also take me aback like what you said about tourists- I expand these lines- almost out of reach- it is all so new that I hardly think it’s still the same air- I move house again soon but the clouds still soothe me the same- I am pushed by ripples of the new mundane.
Such scripts make it relatable, how we almost feel out of place to what is foreign and have yet to adapt. In which the powerlines expand and occupy our minds, making us wonder of its existence and remind us of our homeland, though we hardly find any of them where we are now. Ripples push to slowly forget our past's amenity, to make way for the new norm.
The imagination of birds in the fleeting- I gathered image from back home in the Philippines- there are no cable wires/powerlines here in Singapore- if I ever get home again, it would feel so familiar, but also take me aback like what you said about tourists- I expand these lines- almost out of reach- it is all so new that I hardly think it’s still the same air- I move house again soon but the clouds still soothe me the same- I am pushed by ripples of the new mundane.
CHARLENE
Title: This Is Not A Love Story
What are we then without borders if there are none? If it’s not about us what does our space become without us? Bugis will still be Bugis and the river will still continue to flow without stopping for anyone.
This is not a love story. It never was.
This is not a love story. It never was.
RUTH
Title:<Mala(bo/rder/)>
<Mala(bo/rder/ )> is a manifestation of psychological borders. It highlights a loss of identity in an unfamiliar environment and looks to the border of water as a symbol of hope, of wayfinding and serenity.
RIDDHI
Title: "To: My Love, Home
Address: Unknown"
Address: Unknown"
Inspired by the inevitable fabrication of one's ideals of a home and the urge to deconstruct emotional boundaries, this digital rendition of nature photography and archival images of text fragments aims to demonstrate the vast plethora of possible definitions of the word "home". The text is a short narrative that encapsulates one's vulnerability-infused search for a place of comfort; a search that acts as a constant through every obstacle and transformation that a person faces. Finished with surreal digital illustrations and the act of erasure, the elements of the work are tied together to question the interpretation of this search for a home.
VERENT
Title: Forbidden border to dream
Forbidden border to dream highlights a contradictory between nature and artificiality world where the creature's desire creates misscomunication through the border of digital screen. In the body capacity which the unrealistic dream to reach attaintment in impassable water is being struggle to preserve.
There is imbalance between desire and reality -If borders exist, we have misconnection and miscommunication... all the screens and reflections remind me of technological borders...I visited both the East Coast and Clarke quay - very different environments, one urban, the other nature. Both have their own different reflections. Like fish, we cannot pass water that is forbidden from us. Don’t dare to dream unless we take the consequences. Go from the sea back to the rivers. You are neither the river nor the one who sees.
Forbidden border to dream highlights a contradictory between nature and artificiality world where the creature's desire creates misscomunication through the border of digital screen. In the body capacity which the unrealistic dream to reach attaintment in impassable water is being struggle to preserve.
There is imbalance between desire and reality -If borders exist, we have misconnection and miscommunication... all the screens and reflections remind me of technological borders...I visited both the East Coast and Clarke quay - very different environments, one urban, the other nature. Both have their own different reflections. Like fish, we cannot pass water that is forbidden from us. Don’t dare to dream unless we take the consequences. Go from the sea back to the rivers. You are neither the river nor the one who sees.