In December 2006, just before my family and I left for Singapore, my friend Orah and I agreed to send a small art work to one another every month to keep in touch, but more so to keep the art momentum going between us - a dialogue that we had been developing for a while in Orah's kitchen or in my work room.
After nearly 7 years, I am back in UK. In Winchester, where we kept our house and also where Orah lives.
Orah and I met in her kitchen with the art works of the past years, mine jam packed in a brown box and Orah's over flowing from the plastic folders. We then gave back each other's original works. It was a strange re-union, like looking at your old self in some archival material.
This project is about me revisiting my past self, remembering and recollecting the events and the emotions that I was feeling and experiencing at that time in a new place, a new country and recreating each of the art works from where I stand now, in Winchester, an old place but strangely unfamiliar and unsettling as I have been away for too long.
It also thinks about the notions of home. Where does one call a home? That sense of security and belonging. Where is home now?
After nearly 7 years, I am back in UK. In Winchester, where we kept our house and also where Orah lives.
Orah and I met in her kitchen with the art works of the past years, mine jam packed in a brown box and Orah's over flowing from the plastic folders. We then gave back each other's original works. It was a strange re-union, like looking at your old self in some archival material.
This project is about me revisiting my past self, remembering and recollecting the events and the emotions that I was feeling and experiencing at that time in a new place, a new country and recreating each of the art works from where I stand now, in Winchester, an old place but strangely unfamiliar and unsettling as I have been away for too long.
It also thinks about the notions of home. Where does one call a home? That sense of security and belonging. Where is home now?