Fieldnotes for Encountering Nature
Interactive Public Installation, Jurong Lake Gardens Pavilion
9m x 4m x 4m
In collaboration with Aaron Lim,
as part of Arts@JLG: Collage, presented during Singapore Art Week 2025
Field Notes for Encountering Nature is a public art installation and community arts project by artists Quek Jia Qi and Aaron Lim. It transforms the Jurong Lake Gardens’ Entrance Pavilion into a community library, using collage as the primary language of visual storytelling and knowledge-making. Inspired by the intricate networks of fungi and their collective knowledge sharing, the installation reimagines the Entrance Pavilion as a space with multiple entry points for encountering the garden. Like mycelium spreading underground, the artwork creates a rhizomatic network of perspectives, inviting visitors to explore new ways of seeing nature and our relationship with nature.
As part of the installation, participants from the community have been invited to reimagine how they see, experience, and remember Jurong Lake Gardens. Through creative walks and hands-on workshops, they explore the gardens via the art of collage and micro field guides, building a living archive of collective perspectives. Participants engage in collaborative storytelling, create personal mini field notes, and learn to view nature through multiple, interconnected lenses. Together with the artists, their creations become part of a community archive that transforms how we understand our local ecosystems. This interactive public installation welcomes other visitors to envision the gardens through a collaborative, imaginative lens, making nature observation accessible and fostering ecological consciousness.
As part of the installation, participants from the community have been invited to reimagine how they see, experience, and remember Jurong Lake Gardens. Through creative walks and hands-on workshops, they explore the gardens via the art of collage and micro field guides, building a living archive of collective perspectives. Participants engage in collaborative storytelling, create personal mini field notes, and learn to view nature through multiple, interconnected lenses. Together with the artists, their creations become part of a community archive that transforms how we understand our local ecosystems. This interactive public installation welcomes other visitors to envision the gardens through a collaborative, imaginative lens, making nature observation accessible and fostering ecological consciousness.