the beauty of time passing

the beauty of time passing

FLATLAY OF NECESSITIES (top left to right)

nancy the cactus paintbrush sketch pad moonstone (luck) pendant calligraphy holder ink washi tape

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Trust the wait.

Embrace the uncertainty.

Enjoy the beauty of becoming When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Mandy Hale

Escaping the monotony, and questionable vanity of life, I seek endless possibilities to my moleskine filled with poems, tales and doodles that encapsulates my life.

When I was young, I aspired to be a writer, visual artist or a painter, and every form of art captivated me. I sought pleasure in my surroundings during my encounters with art, whether it was a building, a text, or a photograph capturing a memory.

My interest did not stop there.

Despite lacking the knowledge or practice, I took up Art in my GCE’s and it spurred on my passion to create. I searched for other ways to express my creativity and ventured into Architecture at Singapore Polytechnic.

Studying Architecture, opened the window and bared the soul of

philosophy in art.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art einzttein I believe that art and philosophy allows one to create a story from beneath the surface, filled with resonance and impact.

By creating for ourselves an imaginary experience or activity, we express our emotions; and this is what we call art

The journey I present here were born as a constructive dialogue between rash behaviour and emotions. This series includes design projects, texts, photography and sketches.

“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.”

Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

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“Creativity is more than just being different. hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the

DAILY JOURNAL sketches diary

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Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” Charles Mingus

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“To me, design must relate to the body and soul and must be felt, taste and seen - sometimes unexplained and on an inaccesible level, someimes a day-to-day wonder”.

Rebecca Uth

LIGHTING PIECE diy office project

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GUAN CHUAN (above)

apartment render YANGON APARTMENTS (right)

1:500 scale model

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Allora is a composite of senses of the user wondering through his daily life in this place. Through a series of connected spaces, it provokes one’s thought through the unfolding of spaces, peaking the interest of the user.

SK ETCHES butter paper

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“Perhaps poetry is unexpected truth. It lives in stillness.

Architecture’s artistic task is to give this still expectancy a form. The building itself is never poetic. At most, it may possess subtle qualities, which, at certain moments, permit us to understand something that we were never able to understand in quite this way before.”

Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture

PROCESS SKETCHES human circulation

ALLORA office render

A building is not just a building but a shared spatial journey - an aura - that moulds and illustrates the values of its environment and of culture as a whole. The lived experience of building materials and their sensory properties is, of course, preeminent to understand phemenology in architecture. ‫اتهي‬

the ‘atheerah’ series part 01

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