Thoughts
Upcoming work, news, inspiration, randomness — all that we do and all that is us.
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A TABLE OF MULTIPLE DIALOGUES
April 12, 2015Not many sports can boast an equal playing field between men or women, but table tennis comes close. One of Singapore’s most feted sports, it requires a minimum of two players, constituting a form of dialogue between the players on opposite sides. In this work by Singapore-based artist Lee Wen, the structure and rules of table […]
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WISH YOU WERE HERE
March 30, 2015Using vintage postcards, Italian artist Caterina Rossato creates 3-D collages with X-Acto knifes by cutting up layers of cards and reassembling them. It’s interesting that she chooses to use postcards, which often enable us to live vicariously through our friends and family who are traveling abroad. The postcard is fast becoming a dying method of […]
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PADDLEPOP
March 26, 2015Nguan is a Singaporean photographer who has been presenting a unique and uncommon view of the country as we know it. Tinged in pastel, with hints of nostalgia, Nguan describes his photographs as expressing “big city yearning, ordinary fantasies, and emotional globalisation.” He captures moments that seem quite ordinary at first glance, but are […]
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MISSHAPED
March 25, 2015With a penchant for stark shapes and a Wes Anderson-hued colour palette, visual designer and photographer Giorgio Stefanoni turns his lens on commonplace buildings in Milan. His series, Unknown Geometries, is a playful, charming look at the places that we come across but don’t really take notice of, and encourages everyone to take a second […]
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ON THE TABLE
March 2, 2015Damien Hirst has never been one to shy away from controversy, and his latest work is no exception. Entitled Black Scalpel Cityscapes, Hirst makes use of surgical tools to create aerial maps of cities and towns, in a reference to the military tactic of “surgical bombing” or “surgical strikes” — supposedly aimed at minimising collateral damage […]
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FRAGMENTS
February 24, 2015The female identity and societal position is often questioned, challenged, and sometimes, neglected; perhaps it is only fitting that Spanish-based photographer, graphic/web designer and editor Rocio Montoya draws parallels between the female form, and of nature, whose very existence is being endangered. Man becomes the third party and bystander in these collages, which are […]