Roadside beauties and healing remedies illuminates a fascinating aspect of traditional healing: the creation of cooling tea recipes from common roadside beauties—wildflowers and herbs native to Southeast Asia and the broader Asian continent. Especially relevant given island living and the recent escalation in heat, the piece playfully highlights the medicinal benefits of these often-overlooked ingredients. It serves as a vital reminder for us to embrace our role as custodians of ancestral wisdom and knowledge passed down through generations.

The work extends the artist's focus—initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic—into addressing the pressing concerns of our contemporary climate emergency, advocating for sustainable solutions. The artist has woven photographs—originally shot for her online project during the Singapore Heritage Fest 2021 x Plural Art—into this projection mapping presentation, as a response to the SNF’s Island Nights theme this year.

The Roadside Beauties project will continue as a larger collaborative research initiative that brings together the notions of regeneration, gathering places, histories of display, trade and consumption of natural resources, and the expanding decolonising episteme generated by botanical research and questions of indigeneity and territory.


Duration: 1:11secs
Soundtrack: Early Morning Rise, Universe_Bella at 432Hz
Projection Mapping Masterclass: Abdul Shakir (Grasshopper) 
Technical Support: Chen Dongyan
2021-2025