As a renewed dialogue after the Singapore Bicentennial, Road to Citadel memorialises a historical event —Crawford's destruction of the Sultan's Citadel in Kampong Gelam to make way for North Bridge Road. The act was under the guise of liberating the Sultan’s mistreated women slaves. Historically, the East India had exported Indian penal labourers for the construction of roads and civic buildings in Singapore. The figures of men boarding an open vehicle is taken from the hum

“Glorious, 1989”, collection of National Gallery Singapore. Took the title from an epithet on the WWII monument on Elizabeth walk (present day Esplanade). In the late 80s in Chinatown, I lived 300 metres from the Singapore river where it was a cruising ground for gay men by night before urban renewal took over the quiet stone steps. Most evenings I would take a walk along the river which led me to pass the Lim Bo Seng monument and make the turn-around by the WWII monument. I