Taking cues from the structures of single-cell organisms, this curiously delightful network of connections and permutations illustrates how all of us are part of a larger, invisible web. Each element presents an individual experience that interacts with the other, forming an all-encompassing system that holds everything together.

A commissioned project with the Facebook Artist in Residence (AIR) Programme, I created this piece over a span of about 4 months for a 7m long wall in the Facebook APAC Headquarters in Singapore.
Inspired by the scientific illustrations of radiolaria by German naturalist Ernst Haeckel, I re-imagined my own radiolarians in giant scale. The replicated modules radiating outwards were inspired by microorganisms in a petri dish.
Taking the wall as the surface of a liquid, I imagined the radiolarians having some parts submerged, tracing their way ‘underwater’ and coming up again, like a thread and needle through fabric. I wanted the viewers to think of the wall as not just a wall, and wonder “what lies beneath?”

I chose a more toned-down colour palette, playing with different shades of blue and accenting it with yellow-orange-red tones. If you look closely, many of the pieces have a gradient running through, which I achieved by manually switching the yarn strands in alternate stitches. This design incorporates replication of same modules in large quantities (there are 85 of the bell shapes), but the gradient colour changes with each bell, in relation to the entire installation. Avoiding the usage of wire to shape the pieces, each curve was achieved through the technical manipulation of stitch lengths and number.