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02/02/2025

What goes up must come down. This edition of Textile Paper Lab for SAW comes to be close. Thanks everyone for your participation, encouragement and support!

Happy CNY! The season has probably given everyone a fair opportunity to talk about food, its ingredients, and stories fr...
30/01/2025

Happy CNY! The season has probably given everyone a fair opportunity to talk about food, its ingredients, and stories from the almighty kitchen.

We have an origin story from the Textile Paper Lab kitchen. At the very start of our experimentation in Jan 2024 at the now demolished Peace Centre, when we set up a make shift lab in the corridors, brought us a bag of gum powder that turned into one of our most successful experiments that with .wear and and subsequently, Canberra and Sembawang residents, found new means of expression.

In this SAW edition, the ethereal quality of the artwork comes mainly from the light and lithe qualities of the gum tragacanth, a natural gum obtained from dried sap of a legume. Its uses span paper marbling, vegetable tanning, textile stiffening, cigar rolling, incense making and more. As a food, it is found in likes of fondant and lozenges.

Here's to more discoveries and experimentations in 2025, transforming wilful intransmutable textile waste material with the power and resilience of the organic.

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Second photo by .yka
Last image from Wikipedia)



The day the installation went up. And it's staying up for another week.It was a complete treat to see .pulao artists .oz...
27/01/2025

The day the installation went up.
And it's staying up for another week.

It was a complete treat to see .pulao artists .ozda and dance with the heavy machinery to bring the soft sculptures up into the rafters of the pavillion.

Led by .art, the structural team brought a different element to each of the 8 works with wire and stripped bamboo in shapes that take inspiration from leaf and seed pod furls and curls, bringing the textured fabrics into full animation.

The sculptures now move with the elements because of their tremendous efforts together with .wear .c

One more week to see it in the Canberra Park Pavillion!



Roaring into CNY! Our installation will stay up in the Canberra Park pavillion through next week!Definitely missing the ...
26/01/2025

Roaring into CNY! Our installation will stay up in the Canberra Park pavillion through next week!

Definitely missing the days when the sewing machines were humming, needles were flying and endless teh o limau from KNS -- Canberra CC resident prata shop.

The room we were in on the 3rd floor of the CC used to be a Post Office. We had several people walk in on a froth of tulle instead. A senior was understandably miffed and lamented how hard it's been to be illiterate but can't help being enlivened by the colours and life in the room.

Game design student Green from Arttitude has been a huge presence as we counted down the days to final installation. This roaring dinosaur is just one of his creations.

We also had partner power in Pin Yan, who was integral to keeping .wear sewing machines alive.

Lasalle student added her gentle touch as she hemmed and draped the wire frames in a quiet and lethal team with .

contributed their signature pink, Auntie Bee gathered the pastels, while multidisciplinary artist stitched through the blues just before she flew away for Christmas.

Adel, ever adapt on the machines sewed up many of the large pieces with connecting strips that she dyed in blue, adding finishing touches as we crossed the finish line.

, always first on the scene, gave the pieces her eye for detail and intricacy.

This community has grown since the early days of Renew Earth Sweat Shop by .yka 4 years ago. This iteration with Textile Paper Lab enfolds its found community into ever widening concentric circles shaped by Veronyka, Agy, Adel, Christine, Tien and CY.

Celebrating a friendship spanning 14 years are Yan Ping and Siew Kuei!
25/01/2025

Celebrating a friendship spanning 14 years are Yan Ping and Siew Kuei!

How much do our participants know about Sembawang? That the place is named after a tree. And the story of two rivers tha...
25/01/2025

How much do our participants know about Sembawang?

That the place is named after a tree. And the story of two rivers that became one.

The residents' experience of Sembawang is more deeply rooted. What they remember is the changing of landscapes in the weather, over time, as they retrace familiar steps or carve new ones in the mornings, after dinner, or on weekends.

Esther (1,5) retraces the steps to Mata Jetty as a girl in Girl’s Brigade and now with her family. Jyotsna and Rajee (2,6), the flaming sunsets. Sammie, as a new resident of Sembawang (pictured with Auntie Poh Hwa 3,4), shares in our zine her favourite running spots. She looks at Sembawang with fresh eyes finding something new in the architecture and everyday life in the crevices.

As for our Sembawang tree, its fate lingers in the Sembawang Park parking lot, just the one tree of its kind left in our urban environs. There was once a River Tambuwang here, where many riverine trees of the species Mesua ferruginea were found in wet tropical areas along streams and flowing rivers in forests.

The Sungei Sembawang and the Sungei Senoko were originally two distinct but adjacent rivers. Now, there is just one, the Sungei Sembawang, with change happening almost fifty years apart, in the 1920s and in the 1970s. The swampy ground became the Sembawang Drive/Admiralty Link area for the Naval Base. The waters diverted into the shorter winding Sungei Senoko.

The residents find new connections amidst these changes, with discovery and sometimes a longing for what was. What doesn’t change is the water’s desire to reach the ocean and their relational notions of home.



We love the striking simplicity of these feet by Kai. They could simultaneously be human or animal and speaks of a more ...
25/01/2025

We love the striking simplicity of these feet by Kai. They could simultaneously be human or animal and speaks of a more untamed wilder existence of the kampong villages in coastal Sembawang.

Did you know that Sembawang used to be one of the first training grounds for some of our best athletes?

More about the photo our guest storyteller Bala shared with MP showing the start of a road race in 1984/5 organised by the Sembawang Tamil Association where all the best runners would gather every year. The 7km race pictured here started on the dirt roads of a kampong.

Bala came in 2nd place that day in the junior category, beating the legendary x-country champion, the late S. Vasu. The boy next to the organiser with the vintage loud speaker is a record holder for steeple chase. There's another boy here who grew to gain international notoriety -- google Wilson Raj. A lot of history in one photo.

Sembawang, with its naval bases and close interactions between the naval men and locals, was also fertile ground for sports like soccer and rugby, nurturing talents like V. Sundramoorthy and the Quah brothers.

It speaks a lot that a nation's sporting dreams grew from dirt and running free with the geese, ducks and chickens. Bala remembers it all, the kampongs and its community -- like a dream.

Post-Museum



Surabhi and Anjali, friends and fellow artists for four years, share a common love for reuse, repurposed art and textile...
24/01/2025

Surabhi and Anjali, friends and fellow artists for four years, share a common love for reuse, repurposed art and textiles. Inspired by the natural beauty of Sembawang, the pair collaborated to create Brahmaand, an artwork that symbolizes the universe and the essence of creation. This poignant piece serves as a reminder of how our environment is intricately shaped by the elements, reflecting their shared vision and connection to the world around them.

Scroll to see it in situ.



Irene remembers a Bottle Tree that once stood by the Sembawang beach. The memory of the tree is a cornerstone of her mem...
23/01/2025

Irene remembers a Bottle Tree that once stood by the Sembawang beach. The memory of the tree is a cornerstone of her memories of visiting the beach with her family exploring its natural corners.

This edition of the Textile Paper Lab is shaped by these memories as participants engage in a deeply introspective material practice of sifting through scraps of textile waste, deconstructing and reconstructing into new contours and textures.

The collective work stitches these recollections into a whole. It celebrates nature, the domestic and the folds and swathes of the comfort of home.



Thank you Dr Lim Wee Kiak and folks behind Kampung Jelutung for dropping by last night. Balakrishnan Matchap shared a v...
18/01/2025

Thank you Dr Lim Wee Kiak and folks behind Kampung Jelutung for dropping by last night.

Balakrishnan Matchap shared a vintage photo of Sembawang when the Tamil Association used to organise one of the biggest running events in Singapore. The athletes ran through the kampongs on dirt and road. The race attracted our best athletes who went on to compete in international events.

Glad the Textile Paper Lab got to activate here and be a part of the landscape of Sembawang for just a little while.

Singapore Art Week
National Arts Council Singapore
PAssionArts

16/01/2025

We made it! The collective artwork is now a part of the Canberra landscape.

Interacting with the elements, the installation provides a different experience in the day, the early parts of the evening when the park is lit and in the dark.

Join us tomorrow - monsoon surge be darned - as we celebrate with a chill Glow Party art jam from 6 till late at Canberra Park.

This edition of Textile Paper Lab for would not be possible without

Canberra and Sembawang residents

.wear
art .ozda .c

.thng

And the immense support by Canberra Community Club and Sembawang Town Council.

See you in Sembawang!
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Full on production days as we count down to our opening at the start of Singapore Art Week.Then we play in the monsoon. ...
12/01/2025

Full on production days as we count down to our opening at the start of Singapore Art Week.

Then we play in the monsoon.

On Friday 17 Jan 2025 6 - 9pm, come for our Glow Party art jam. Bring your torch lights, umbrellas, old tees, picnic mats and let’s play under the Canberra Park pavillion as the sun sets under the collective artwork.
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