About Alter Ego
Numbers and code are two main ingredients in a data visualisation, but what if these technicalities were substituted with humanistic components? Data can be presented in forms that allow people to connect and relate to more naturally, thus evoking empathy and a deeper understanding for the subject at hand.
Alter Ego collects emotional and experiential sensations as data from Bukit Batok Town, a neighbourhood in the west of Singapore, as a subject. The result is one that uses data for it's emotional and sentimental value that archives and relays the experience of living in the heartlands.
About Layer by Layer
The various odd sized coptic stitch features full page photographs of Bukit Batok. Each individual size booklet represents a different theme, containing different photos collected based on such themes. When opened, it aims to feature different compositions of Bukit Batok landscape via the odd sizes. The later half of the book documents the different derives and explains each theme in depth. All derives are supported with photographs.
The walks – also known as Flaneur – is known as the aimless, random floating through a space guided by whim and an awareness of space. During a drift, the psychogeography of the environemtn is put under study. Specifically, the effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals. As such, the book effecitvely records the data of the psychogeography of Bukit Batok.
Data Collection Device
The author's five senses are used in the collection of data. The senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch presents a broad range of capabilities to read and convert data about the environment. Furthermore, the human brain and emotions allow the data to be put together in no other way other devices can match.
