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Not Yet/ Low Tide

Siaw Lyn Ling

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I work with painting to explore suspension, perception, and emotional resonance. Shell-like forms—drawn from the sea—are gently anthropomorphised, holding traces of memory, time, and unspoken feeling. Through slow shifts and quiet rhythms, I consider how ecological time lingers, and how images echo what was almost lost.

I work with painting to explore suspension, perception, and emotional resonance. Shell-like forms...

Not Yet/ Low Tide brings together painting and sculpture in a shared state of suspension—one held above, the other resting below.

The painting unfolds like a view from within a shell: two oyster-like figures sit apart, enclosed in a quiet space where something is about to become.

This form is understood as a vessel that carries time, memory, and unformed thought.

Across the surface, patches and layered zones—drawn from shell microstructures—are subtly embedded, evoking a way of seeing shaped by material rhythms, fragments, and slow accumulation.

The sculpture echoes this containment: a bent aluminium form resting low, holding water and stone like the residue of a tide.

Its curved posture resembles a biological body folded inward, as if deep in thought.

Together, the works offer a space where natural forms dissolve into emotion, and echoes gather shape through stillness.

Final work

Two seated figures face a central space with soft textures, falling lines, and shell-inspired patch-like markings on a warm-toned canvas.

Not Yet

Oil on canvas, 270x160cm, 2025.

A painting to be felt before understood.

The scene unfolds from inside a shell-like space—soft, suspended, open. Two figures sit in quiet distance, oyster-like, unspoken. At the center, something falls gently, its nature unclear. A landscape appears far away, as if half-remembered.

Across the surface, patch-like markings echo the microstructure of shells—fragmented memories embedded within the material of the image.

The shell is no longer a symbol, but a feeling: something that holds, carries, and surrounds. What is not said becomes what is most present.

A bent aluminium sculpture with a reflective surface and basin-like base holding water and stone.

Low Tide

(sculpture, aluminium, oil, water, stone), 2025

The form is shown in isolation to reflect its state of suspension and introspection.

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Not Yet/ Low Tide

Not Yet/ Low Tide brings together painting and sculpture in a shared state of suspension—one held above, the other resting below.The painting unfolds like a view from within a shell: two oyster-like figures sit apart, enclosed in a quiet space where something i...

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