A spec of retro, 2025
Found objects
Installation: 180 cm x 198 cm x 142 cm
Artist’s Statement
The installation work, A spec of retro (2025) creates a space where the viewer can interact and reflect. A few reworked, found objects forms part of this immersive work like a reupholstered fluffy yellow chair with crocheted patches, a bits-and-pieces table with an old vinyl record player, with a plant in a melted vinyl record on top. A pot plant in a yellow pot growing towards a hole in the table. Minimalist, frame paintings titled, I don’t know how to frame it (2025) and, reframed refrain (2025), as well as 3 drawers stacked on each other with a Fix-it-manual hidden in the bottom drawer.
Through the playful reimagining of the word “retrospect”, the title echoes the work’s contemplation on memory and value. It speaks on themes of nostalgia, the passing down of knowledge and skills through generations and whether the youth of today find permanent value in history. The work looks through a Fluxus lens through its playful and ironic nature.
The style and objects in the work have a vintage feel to it; taking past items of value and reworking them to serve a different playful purpose. These objects create a scene of retro remembrance with bold yellows that highlight a feeling of pure, childlike joy, like rays of sun falling on the work as well as different pieces of wood to create a recurring pattern. This evokes the cyclical nature of the world. “A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever,” Ecclesiastes 1:4.
My Faith has been passed down from generations, from my grandma to my mom and now me. It still remains my decision to find the eternal value of it. Just like other things passed down, we have to make choices and learn from the people who came before us. I am thankful for the strong women in Christ who came before me and inspired me to also be a child of the Most High.
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