The Plurality of Change & Transition
The Singapore Identity- Beyond the surface
Change is most keenly felt in Singapore, as seen in the rapidly changing environment around us. The place where we first flown a kite is now a school built upon it. The block, which our grandparents have lived in, has been torn down to make way for the MRT. Or, if we haven’t been to Orchard Road for a long time, we would be shocked to find ourselves lost in our own shopping district.
This is when Change becomes most visible to us because we are able to observe how fast-moving and ephemeral things of value have become. It shocks us because change is fast, that things do not seem to remain in place, and what’s left is a memory that ceases to exist.
I would like to re-introduce a positive approach to looking and appreciating Change as slow and building at its foundations. Only when we strip away our differences and our narrow perceptions of a ‘immediate and a life-affecting’ change, do we get a peek at our foundations, a sense of unraveling of what is happening beneath the surface. Through the use of images that depict spaces, objects, nature and people, I hope that we can appreciate the process of “becoming to being” rather than fixate on the outcome of 'change' that is often otherwise perceived as sudden and unpleasant.
