Dreams collect like echoes.


Some inherited, some borrowed, some sorrowed.


Come back to yourself when the voices conflict. 


Where mind, heart, and instinct meet.

While rooted in personal experience, this work speaks to broader social conditions. In Singapore, and the global modern society, there exists a quiet culture of suppression. High achievement is praised. Conformity is polite. To function, many of us become partial versions of ourselves.

Reconstruction of the Self invites viewers to recognise their own hidden parts. The selves edited out for survival, belonging, or respectability. It asks: What have we been taught to suppress? What truths might emerge if we let go of being palatable, and instead embraced being whole?

These images are not self-portraits in the traditional sense. They are meditations, fragmented into abstract impressions of psychological experiences. They suggest that power does not lie in perfection, but in presence. That healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about integrating what was never allowed to be seen.

It is a visual inquiry into the tension between internal truth and external expectation. Clarity that emerges from confusion, the shedding of misaligned beliefs, and the act of reclaiming selfhood, fully embodied.

Refracted street lights cast transient hues - red, yellow, gold, orange, pink, and green - against deep shadows. These spectral colours reflect inner states: revolution, warmth, emergence, and renewal. Rooted in Southeast Asian symbolism, they link cultural memory with soulful insight.

Yellow Fever, questions the historical use of yellow to stereotype and exoticise Asian bodies. In it, the colour is barely present - destabilised, elusive. A reminder that what we perceive through the gaze of stereotype is often illusion. This image, as with the entire series, is about shedding externally imposed identities while embracing the traits that make us unique.

Dream Machine, explores the tension between fantasy and fragmentation. A representation of our inner dream-world realities. The identities we construct flicker between longing and distortion. Though the mind can overwhelm, it also holds the path towards our greatest potential. When freed from inherited limits, our imagination shapes the path to who we can become.

This project is not about perfection or performance. It is about integration. Vulnerability, when held with clarity, becomes strength.

It ends with the only frame where I am recognisable, Christabel. My gaze meets the viewer directly. No longer distorted. A moment of self-recognition, and the beginning of becoming whole.