A practice she has been developing for five years, Melissa Tan’s initial investigations into landscapes included the examination of various fragments and varieties of rocks and rock formations with crystal clusters, whereby she began to observe and appreciate the complex structures of highly ordered crystal lattices as a metaphor for the process and production of contemporary art. Through experimentations with paper and metal, “If you can dream a better world you can make a better world or perhaps travel between them” features laborious and painstakingly hand-cut paper and laser-cut metal sculptures, which translate the continually expanding urban physical landscape and terrain of Singapore into abstract visual and sonic contemporary expressions.
