SELF-PUBLISHED ZINES  +  HYPER CURATED NATURE

The Hyper Curation of 
Nature in Singapore






Format: A5 Portrait Booklet
Pages: 32 Pages
Published: 2023

* Available in different colours

Saddle Stitched and Assembled by Hand


This photo zine compiles film and digital images captured whilst travelling, using Singapore as a key precedent for the apotheosis of Nature Curation. Contrasting moments of control and respite, we see the dualities of a policed ‘nature’ and how life flourishes within our City in Nature.





The current planting and landscaping methodology of Singapore, lies in a highly curated image of what the state wants to be perceived as. This current top-down approach to gardening and greening of the state stifles the individual and personal expressions. It centres our greening efforts into a central utopic vision, dedicated to establishing a clear optic for Singapore.

From excessive pruning to the uprooting of potential trees that might fall, the optics of nature in Singapore is highly policed and reviewed. A part of it lies in the innate societal programming, whereby nature is an ornament, and the people expects the proliferation of nature, but in a controlled and predictable manner. Thus, this creates a vicious cycle of the exploitation of nature, and the usage of nature as a symbol to portray a desire of the
perfect nation.