15 Hour Distance:
On-Line Perspectives

15 Hour Distance and Travel Patterns (Chili Padi), CCA Nave  installation, exterior and interior views,  2010

Oil on Jute, dimensions variable, CCA Hooper Gallery, 2010

15 Hour Distance: On-line Perspectives are painted abstractions of HDB (Singaporean public housing) interiors; photographed via screen captures taken from Skype conversations between San Francisco and Singapore. The colour palette is derived from studies of tiles from traditional "Peranakan" shop-houses; overlaying the modern and historic subject of architecture together in the work . The paintings are done with brevity (usually in one sitting) in an attempt to capture the notion of compressed time and space of a given situation.  Only if necessary are the pieces reworked minimally and with restraint to attain desired line qualities, spatial depth, and a remote yet serene atmosphere.