At Tropical Lab there were only 10 days to make work for exhibition & with fairly ambitious plans to make several elements it was a tight ship to collect materials, make the work & document as I went. Here are my efforts in several parts.                                                                                                     

Boxes & Tape

Using boxes this work replicates the foot print of the Rochor Housing Estate in the gallery. I also used coloured tape on the boxes reflecting the colours of the four buildings. All of these materials were collected or purchased in the neighbourhoods immediately surrounding the Rochor centre.  

5 Meter Card Prints

In order to bring in a large architectural element my work had to exist in a lofty space within the gallery. After finding a long roll of card on a materials excursion I decided that It would be ideal to print onto. Once a few test prints had been made I decided to make four 5 meter prints. One for each colour of the Rochor Centre. Red, Green & Blue hung in the gallery. Yellow I tore into pieces & placed in an open box in the box installation. The physical yellow building had been partly demolished & is no longer visible on the Singapore skyline, where the other 3 colours at that point were. So demolishing the work & consigning it to a box seemed fitting. Each print contained the same image of washing hanging out to dry, repetition of human clothes in the colours of a nearby empty & partly demolished housing estate. The people have left this place, their washing hangs out to dry else where. 

Rochor Zine

As with most of my exhibiting projects I make an accompanying zine with information about the work & its context. Rochor Zine was an edition of 60 with hand finished detail. Each zine had one of four Rochor colours added to the inside using the same tape that the boxes have & were folded & numbered by hand. This Zine contains some of my own research, words from books & materials used in the installation.