Folded Frequencies: Blue Shift 

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Stitched empty blister packs, 11 x 5 ft

Art SG, Singapore, Jan 2026​

Folded Frequencies: Blue Shift gathers the remnants of pharmaceutical consumption into a suspended, sculptural relief that hovers between fragility and resilience. Discarded blister packs are stitched together and folded into a cascading metallic skin, recalling the drape of a sacred relic. What begins as packaging designed for dosage and compliance is transformed into a field of devotional rhythm, where the mundane act of pill-taking accrues ceremonial weight.

Each hollowed pocket holds the residue of medication once taken faithfully. Each stitch suggests a whispered plea. The folds fossilise lived experience, oscillating between science and faith, body and spirit, cure and ritual.The work invites slow looking, asking us to dwell on how what has been emptied can become charged with memory. Absence becomes palpable, almost luminous.
Running vertically through this metallic terrain is a single blue strip. Drawing on the scientific notion of a “blue shift,” where frequency intensifies toward higher energy, the line marks a subtle recalibration within an otherwise regulated system. Blue, long associated with the infinite and the unseen, becomes here a quiet axis of approach. It does not depict divinity, but signals proximity to boundlessness within the disciplined routines of care.

At the confluence of silent care and belief, the work stands as a folded relic of contemporary survival stitched not merely with thread, but with resonance. In reframing the discarded as devotional residue, it asks what echoes remain in absence: traces of pain, or the afterimage of prayer.