RE:MADE

A necessary evolution of the lockdown-based Stay, Home (2020), the “RE:MADE” series sought to make sense of my expanded environment in Singapore. It used a similar language of found objects, but combined it with the professional tools and materials available at local co-working workshop The Made Agency, until it closed in 2022.

Created from reclaimed materials and items destined for the landfill, the works were as much a dialogue with the materials, as it was with the community of makers that shared the space. Through the symbolic act of taking what was discarded or broken, embracing its loss, and then refashioning it into something new, I hoped to continue to give voice to ideas of reintegration and re-visioned identity – this time, situated within a community.

Largely Suit-table (2021)
Vintage Skyway Suitcase, Solid Pine, Plywood, Shellac, Angled Brackets, Velcro & Metal Screws
50cm x 80cm x 50cm

(Supported by a grant from The Made Agency)

A portable table that disassembled and packed into itself, made from a vintage 1960s family suitcase, scrap wood and finished with natural shellac to pay respects to its age.

Created soon after my return to Singapore, this piece was representative of the liminal state I found myself in at the time. It echoed my past periods of childhood transition, a sentiment underscored by my family name still sewn into the luggage lining. Over time, this table became a new transitional object, unpacked at each new studio location I found myself.

Rather Pallet-table (2021)
Pallet pinewood, reclaimed pallet nails, brass locking hinges, screws, varnish and wood glue.
100cm x 60cm x 50cm

(Private Commission)

A foldable coffee table made entirely from materials salvaged from a donated pinewood pallet, including the original nails.

Designed to showcase the imperfections and knots in the pine (a wood often overlooked for tabletops due to its softness), this private commission also retained small details that paid homage to its former life as a pallet.

Where once it supported industrial materials, this piece found a new life hosting dinners and gatherings in its new home.

A Leg Up (2021)
Used wooden crutches, reclaimed pallet wood, bolts, wing nuts, walnut oil and wax.
110cm x 100cm x 30cm

This portable rack for drying paper was made from a pair of beautiful wooden crutches from an unfortunate accident.

Constructed as a transitional object to begin my second instalment of the lost in transition project, it illustrated my move from my current state to the new one, both physically as well as psychologically. Something old, something new; something taken, something made.