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Joanne Leow: What do you think your art practice does in that space, then, thinking through that space? Like what do you hope to work through? Some of the ideas / what do you hope to communicate about that?
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Juria Toramae: I want people to think more about the environment outside their own spaces. I think a lot of residents here—I don’t want to say Singaporeans—but residents, they have no idea, they don’t know that there are other islands, they don’t know of the history, they don’t know that their actions and choices are making a huge impact to the other residents outside the main island. I want people to think about these things. And it’s not necessarily just the outlying islands, but, the other environment around you. I mean, being aware is like, “yeah I’m aware, okay, bye.” It’s more like…if I could make you think about it, or like “hey, those islands with all those refineries, you know they were like Singapore before. They had schools, they had police stations, they had wells, they had animals, they had trees,” you know that kind of thing. If you could think about the change and you could think about how things may change just because of our survival, then that’s enough for me. |