Project Description

Under the Electric Moon explores the nocturnal presence of trees in Singapore’s urban landscape. Through a series of images made while walking at night, it examines the intersection between natural biology and artificial illumination — how streetlight, signage, and architecture impose rhythms of light on organisms evolved for darkness.

At its core, the work considers the disruption of photosynthesis and circadian cycles in plants due to artificial light at night (ALAN), and the broader ecological questions that arise when urban infrastructure extends the day indefinitely. The trees photographed — often solitary, cast in isolating pools of light or veiled in shadow — become quiet witnesses to a shifted environmental logic.

Walking is integral to the process: a slow, embodied method of seeing and sensing the city’s darkened edges. This act of movement through obscured space parallels the way trees must navigate an altered relationship with time, light, and rest. The project invites reflection not only on the physiological effects of light pollution on plants, but also on the human need to reclaim darkness — to move within it, and to feel at home in its mystery.