Painting

This is another very quick small painting done in about 20 mins. It is of Seletar airport taken from a web image of Seletar in the 1960's.

Books

I am reading 3 interesting books on memory at the moment. Mediated Memories in the Digital Age by Jose van Dijck (2007). Locating Memory ed. by Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister (2006) and most enjoyable of all Memory, History,Forgetting by Philospher Paul Ricoeur (2006). I haven't come across Ricoeur before. It is a book I have been waiting for, in terms of the ideas I am working with, for at least the last 6 years. They say some books come at the right time for you to appreciate them and this one really strikes a chord. Absolutely fascinating and brilliant.

Textile Ground 2

It is interesting to see how the images compare, with and without the ground. I am not sure yet!

Textile Ground

In have added an Malay Ikat textile design to the painting. I wanted to see how they would resonate off each other and provide a dialogue between two cultural identities.

Painting

I am not sure where this is in Singapore. I got the image off the web... whether it is part of Seletar camp I don't know. It is of gun emplacements.

Collage

Still working on some collage ideas. This one is outside the camp in Jalan Kayu. I am not sure which road it is?

Crumpled Paintings

Thinking about memory and the way it is fragmented I have started to experiment with crumpling my paintings. I am not sure what to make of them only that they remind me a bit of Picasso cubist works but in 3 Dimensions. They also remind me of glass or ceramic objects.

Badminton Club

I painted the Badminton court on Seletar camp because this is where my Mum used to play back in the 1960's.

Little England

The nickname for Seletar Camp was "little England" which is so accurate. All the indigenous flora of the area had been replanted and re landscaped as a version of an idyllic landscape based on what looks like country estates in England. I have made some quick paintings on acetate based on some of the web images on the Jalan Kayu Trail blog.

AHRC

I have been concentrating on writing an application to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Practice Lead grants scheme, and that has been occupying my time over the last few weeks. It is a really substantial award and would enable me to get the Tapestry made but it is also highly competitive. I find it quite hard to concentrate on both writing and making work and so have been concentrating on the writing. I hope to submit after Easter and then it takes about 3 months for a decision to be made.