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URBAN ASSEMBLIES
Urban Assemblies aims to document and validate the ground up structures littered around our highly policed urban infrastructures. Going against the jurisdiction of the land, these subversive bricolage reforms the experience of our monotonous outdoor public cadence. Collecting the stories of individuals, documenting the anomalies within their immediate surroundings, this zine displays photographs and illustrations of the weird and wonderful bricolage morphologies.
The common threads of territorialisation and boundaries in our cramped urban environment, is shown though this zine exploration. The themes of guerilla defiance and the savviness ignites the emergence of interesting assemblages, cutting against the grain of social norms and enforced guidelines.
Format: A5 Portrait
Pages: 44 Pages
Published: 2024
Half Cover with Parchment,
Saddle Stitched by Hand
ENCASED:
Topic of the Transient
ENCASED Topic of the Transient features temporary elements that shape an informal landscape, redefining the ways we experience space and time. From the scaffolds of societal change, to the mundane articles that congregate society, these temporal indicators are a by-product of our man-made environment.
Divided into chapters of varying transient morphologies, the images can be interpreted as a continuous narrative of our transient territories, encasing the potential of transformation within, redeveloping current grounds for future improvements.
Format: A5 Portrait
Pages: 35 Pages
Published: 2024
Steel Fastening Bind, in a Case File
Accretions and
Mutations
The zine documents and juxtaposes frames of photographs , analysing the sedimentation and layering of time, culture, and everything in between. Weirdly liminal images speaks of alternate realities, one that illustrates the accumulation or contorsioning of the norm. The zine delves into complex relationships and pairs images with footnotes to begin questioning the everyday.
It expresses the anxiety of an eventual loss of our history and time accumulated traces. The book features a series of film and digital images, paired with footnotes, describing the scenes.
Format: A5 Landscape Booklet
Pages: 38 Pages
Published: 2024
* 2 Different Covers Available: STANDARD in Harvest Brown and LIMITED in Metallic Silver.
Steel Fastening Bind, Assembled by Hand
The Hyper Curation
of 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.
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.
Format: A5 Portrait Booklet
Pages: 32 Pages
Published: 2023
Saddle Stitched by Hand
Documenting
Defu Lane
A film zine documenting the wild beauty of the disappearing Defu Lane, the last of the original industrial lands next to Paya Lebar Airbase. This disconnected district reminisces of a rural Kampong community, with time almost becoming relative, slowing down within. An overgrown population of wild plants integrates itself into the fabric of the temporal industrial structures, rooting the site in a form of permanence.
(Shot on a Canon AE-1, with Ilford HP5 400)
Format: A5 Portrait Booklet
Pages: 28 Pages
Published: 2022
Staple Binded