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Untitled ($2) (2014)

Cardboard and Rice
Untitled ($2) (2014) is a critique on our everyday pragmatism and sought for wealth. Yet, growing up, the very absence of many tangible privileges has granted a silver lining to cherish many other intangible things that were not temporal, like cardboard and organic rice, which is prone to decay. Upon closer look, the original perception of the original $2 Singapore Money Note reveal  the deliberate imperfections in the craftsmanship. The ephemerality of rice beautifully encapsulates the vulnerability of what we perceive as Gold. Like fame and prestigious titles, they are transient. 

As an Italian proverb goes, "At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in the same box"

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  • ABOUT
    • Biography
  • ARCHIVE
    • Recent
    • Performances & Public Interventions >
      • Can You Hear Me?
      • A Picnic In Apart
      • Field Trip to Redhill
      • Kopi & Myths
      • The Treehouse We Never Had
      • Bind
      • What do you not handle with care?
      • Ghost to Ourselves
      • Love Clinic
      • All The Things I Had To Say To You (Without You)
      • Untitled (Goodnight Stranger)
      • Is this seat taken?
      • Untitled (Grieving in New York City)
      • Shifting Concretes: Can We “Lepak” Better at Orchard Road?
      • Waiting For
      • 洗手 (Washing Hands)
      • This Is a Safe Place to Un-Nail Your Privilege
      • iStopped To Take This Photo (Oxford Street)
      • Fix-Aided
    • Interactive Installations >
      • Can You Hear Me?
      • Stretch
      • Untitled (lost and maybe not always found)
      • Real-Doh: Fun with Apologies
      • Real-Doh Playroom
      • Real-Doh: Model Citizen
      • Real-Doh: Together, We Can Even This Out
      • 佳佳 Mama Shop
      • Fix-Aided
      • Tabula Rasa
      • Untitled
    • Cardboard >
      • 佳佳 Mama Shop
      • Untitled ($2)
      • Untitled (Possessions)
    • Collaborations >
      • Oceans*A*Part
      • Dumplings & Dialogue
      • Conversations in Singapore History' 18
      • And Everything In Between
      • The Little Things Book
      • Shifting Concretes: Can We “Lepak” Better at Orchard Road?
    • Paintings >
      • Watercolour
      • One-Way Ticket
      • Bare Skin
      • Old Flame
      • Mummy Can I Wash Your Hands
    • Illustrations >
      • The Little Things Book
    • Your Familiar Stranger
  • Press
  • Contact