Evergreen is an installation of PVC banners hung on the railings in an air well near the store, inserted next to other banners already advertising various shops in Bras Basah Complex. The banner designs echo familiar book spines, but refracted through abstraction and repetition. Yet they retain a recognisability, suggesting that there is a visual system of books of which we are all subconsciously aware, which makes visits to secondhand bookstores in Bras Basah Complex feel so familiar.

Intending to mimic the forts we all tried to build as children, this piece was made with yarn, hand-spun with a spindle out of the leaves of familiar calendars recognisable in many Singaporean households (produced by Maha Yu Yi bookstore), which were left to be discarded when unsold once the new year began. The act of tearing the calendar as each day passes is symbolic of time passing, and using this representation of ‘time’ to create the fort in brittle paper yarn makes one feel its fragility, like a passing moment in time.