Dimensions: 10 x 12 x 7 ft

Medium: Machine embroidered synthetic fabric, thread, mylar film, wooden dowels, mercerised cotton thread, AI images

In a religious context, a labyrinth symbolises one’s journey to the centre and back, representing the search for spiritual truth or connection with the divine. With tailor-made algorithms based on our existing state of mind and conditions of life, how do we seek ideas outside of ourselves? In this installation, one engages with AI images translated through the embroidery machine with threads onto a synthetic fabric and morphed reflections. In a time when we have to navigate more information than ever, how do we find ourselves or our truth? With tailor-made algorithms based on our existing state of mind and conditions of life, how do we seek ideas outside of ourselves? 

The work captures metaphorically the illusions of our times as the simulacrum of a thing is transformed through materiality and reflected in another plane. As one navigates this labyrinth symbolically to search for oneself, one encounters warped images of the self and the surroundings in the work. I draw from my personal journey of searching for the meaning in life, practising self-reflection and critically thinking about my role as a transient being. My work is an external translation of my spiritual inquiry into the meaning of life and death, and what we make of our existence with the time we have, drawing from the past and contemplating the future.

The embroideries on fabric are a direct metaphor for the fabric of society that is intertwined and held together by fragile belief systems. However, the future is not absolute; it makes us grapple with constant uncertainties. The individual elements of the work formally depict a pixel in the form of an embroidered central square within a rectangular fabric symbolising a scroll. These elements tie tradition and technology to rethink questions of cyclical fragmentation of human society in history and speculate on the future.

In a time when we must navigate

more information than ever, how do we find ourselves or our truth? How do we shape

the fabric of society?