TOMOKO TSURUTA
This photographic work is a site-specific response to this unique room without a window,
a play on introducing light and color to the space. The "shop-house window" is central
to the work since the hotel building was originally a shophouse, and the image of the window
was shot in Kampong Glam Area.
The artwork explores the idea of compressed time in our mind. The layered images of an old aged
window and the momentary visual memory of Singapore's everyday scenery is a compressed temporal
representation. At the same time, the image addresses the connection between the inner experience of
time with the visual attention of our external space at the present moment.
