On the surface, this series is a documentary of adolescent youths in their rooms. Their gazes are adverted, looking out the window and beyond. And in their respective “window frames”, an artificial landscape is constructed using found images online. What will be constructed then? The constructed landscape will be based on the interviews I will have with them, asking them to describe a place they have not been to but would like to go. This series aims to reflect two points. One is the entrapment by familiarity of our surroundings. Singapore is so small that as Singaporeans, there is a dearth of novelty or “strangeness” in our surroundings. We are estranged by utter familiarity. Another point I am making is how the Internet is then a manner in which Singaporean youths escape or perceive the world beyond. But the irony is that this dream is an artificial construct nonetheless.
