The starting point for the exhibition was a small experiment I conducted with 8 Singaporeans students titled Buying Time, in which I paid them USD$10.00 to do nothing for an hour. It is a simple gesture out of my feeling toward certain cultural discrimination against daydreaming. 

It is my personal belief that one has to be a little bit bored at all to want to make art.  If not art, then something else.  Just not this all the time, whatever “this” is supposes to be.

There are invisible and visible forces telling us that if we are not doing something all the time, then there is something wrong with us.  Screw that.

Surely, I do not promote laziness or Slacker-ism.  (If I were, this is certainly a lot of work for that purpose)

Accumulation of knowledge does not equate to learning. Simple does not mean its not complicated.  Not knowing does not mean oblivious.  Nor should idleness and daydreaming be looked down upon as a total evil (non)activity.

The rest of the pieces for the exhibition are base on similar sentiment: to take away something. To negate something. And in the absence of that something we have…

In the absence of that something we can…