Hello 2026!
Before I begin—
If you chanced upon this journal, I want to reach out to you and send you something special from me, as a small token of appreciation for following my journey and for being genuinely interested in what I do! 🙂 Email me and share your thoughts after reading this post, and include your home address so my little gift can safely arrive in your mailbox.
I promise the stamps will be lovely too.
Disclaimer: This is not a marketing campaign. I’m simply curious how many people still click into a website and read a blog these days.
When everything is fast-paced and designed for short attention spans—IG reels, TikTok posts, Shorts and all, very few people have the patience to sit with an artwork and its reflections, or to dive into an article and really listen to what the author has to say. These things often demand more than 30 seconds of our lives.
On the other hand, the time between this blog and the last one I posted here was… 731 days.
Gosh. That’s really long.
“So, what have you been doing?” you asked.
I’m here. Still breathing, still chasing dreams, fighting my battles and working hard towards my goals. I’ve been focusing deeply on my fine art studies and research, while staying busy with commission projects, live events, custom illustrations, and hosting creative workshops for clients and collaborators in between studies. All this while juggling family commitments and doing my best as a mum to my preschooler, phew…I have got a lot on my plate.
Since starting my full-time BA in Fine Arts programme at LASALLE and moving back to my home studio in mid-2024, I’ve mostly been working with collaborators and teaching from different spaces. It wasn’t easy. But truly, God has been faithful. Over the past 2.5 years, He placed the right clients and collaborators in my path. I’ve met wonderful students who later became friends, many of whom still attend my workshops across different spaces. I’m endlessly grateful for their trust and support.
2025 was a tumultuous year full of highs and lows, but it has shaped me in profound ways. It began in motion, with one busy semester folding into the next. I was selected by NAC (National Arts Council) and LASALLE to participate in the ASEAN–India Artist Camp in Meghalaya, India, where I produced a painting inspired by my interpretation of the Ramayana. This was followed by a group show on the hillside of Shillong. I returned to Singapore physically and mentally exhausted, straight into another group show at Alliance Française, and then wrapped up the academic year with a somewhat resolved body of work. Thankfully, I was awarded another full scholarship to complete my final year at LASALLE.
Working on my painting for ASEAN-India Artists Camp, Shillong, Meghalaya India.
3-month internship at SAM (Singapore Art Museum), fulfilling part of my BA Fine Arts graduation criteria.
After that came a three-month internship at SAM (Singapore Art Museum) as a digital content creator in the Marketing and Communications department during the long semester break. It was an incredibly productive and meaningful time learning how things work behind the scenes, witnessing how major exhibitions are curated and communicated to the public. I’ve always been curious about that world, and I’m really glad I stepped into it. At the same time, things at home were uneasy, with a lot of tension and strain. Then, at the start of my final year, came an unexpected health scare.
So I slowed down.
And I returned to myself.
My studio space at Winstedt Campus, working on a new body of work for my graduation year.
Another of my production houses –Bees Knees Press, my happy place and cosy hideaway.
The long semester break came and went in a whiff. I gathered my thoughts and began a new body of work inspired by my lived experiences, another form of catharsis where research, readings on embodiment, and my printmaking practice intertwined. I allowed my body to lead where words could not. The works found their own forms through the process. I ended the semester in a much steadier place—mentally, physically, and creatively.
Time waits for no one. I’m already deep into my graduating thesis and loading up on readings. In four months, I’ll be showing my works at Winstedt Campus and the ICAS (Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore) gallery as part of my graduating cohort. Looking back, I see how my research interests in fine art printmaking, the mothering body, phenomenology, embodiment, folklore, floral symbolism, arts pedagogy, and practice have grown over the years. Through the gruelling process of reading difficult (and sometimes dull) texts, writing essays, and countless process-based experiments, my practice has gradually expanded and clarified, guided by my lecturers and mentors.
It’s been an incredibly demanding yet rewarding journey. I’m deeply glad I committed to this programme, despite my doubts, my fears of financial strain, cutting back on my creative business, and sacrificing precious family time with my child. Not all is lost, and not all is gained. In the end, we choose our battles, and we move forward wiser, heads held high.
I can’t promise another blog anytime soon. When you’re on the front line of your own battles, there’s rarely time to blog, unless the blog exists purely as a marketing platform chasing SEO and viewership. Mine clearly isn’t.
Until the next one, I send you peace and gratitude.
Well, I’m still active on IG; stay tuned for my graduation show.
