Perpendiculiar Asymptotes

From Palais to Pulau: Rethinking home and Oddities, 125 Jalan Sultan
14 - 21 Jan 2025

1 x 1 x 1, Fost Gallery
10 May - 21 Jun 2025

Perpendiculiar Asymptotes is a collection of drawings that use stationery materials and coloured threads on paper to create intricate layers of colour and pattern. The forms and shapes draw from diagrams and schematics the artist encountered while supporting her child through a demanding academic year shaped by Singapore’s primary school mathematics curriculum. These visual fragments—once tied to routines of problem-solving and emotional labour—became a starting point for reflection and creative response.

 

In this series, the artist reimagines these utilitarian forms, transforming them into abstract compositions that explore their aesthetic and structural possibilities. Materials and tools familiar from school—set squares, post-its, tapes, stickers, and stencils—are both used in the process and incorporated into the works, alongside layered coloured threads. The result is a body of work that reflects on the pressures of learning, the textures of daily repetition, and the labour of the hand as a quiet, persistent act of care and attention.

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