The Mirage

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Singapore is a city in constant renewal, where demolition and rebuilding shape the rhythm of daily life. Old structures vanish quickly, replaced by new developments that rise almost overnight. In this restless cycle, memories of home and the city become fractured and transient, leaving only fleeting impressions of what once was.

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My paintings mirror this condition through layered, multi-spatial structures that reflect the evolving urban landscape. Fragments of malls, housing estates, transit hubs, and construction sites overlap in disjointed perspectives, forming compositions that resist a singular viewpoint. These images are not records of specific places or lived memories. Rather, they evoke an in-between zone—neither wholly real nor wholly imagined—where utopia and reality coexist.

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The Mirage becomes a metaphor for the city itself: disorienting yet alluring, a place suspended between disappearance and becoming, where certainty dissolves into the dreamlike.