Project Description
Working with montage and chine-collé to create layers of personal and social memory

Blocks 1-4 East Coast Road stand as a fading witness to Singapore’s evolving urban landscape. This derelict HDB estate, once home to families relocated from coastal kampungs, carries layers of personal and social memory embedded in its walls, corridors, and surfaces. The photomontage/chine-collé tehcnique of layering delicate washi papers mirrors the strata of human experience, the marks of time, and the accumulated stories held within the building. Each print captures textures, the peeling paint, weathered panels and hoardings not just as surfaces, but as vessels of memory, expressing the entwined material and social histories of the estate before it is lost to redevelopment.