redefining Singapore’s local identity, the local artist and designers, are encompassing the old cultures and nostalgic elements to showcase what is Singapore all about and from there hoping to use nostalgia and the old cultures to create a Singapore design flavour. However, these culture and nostalgia elements would not last as a significant figure for Singapore’s design identity. Firstly, reason being that there is an overwhelming influence from the imports and external factors causing it to be
The writing is based on a poem about learning. The circle of writing in gold and it’s huge size compared to the tiny dots surrounding it represents the sun which is a symbol for education and learning. It represents the artist’s nostalgia to previous eras in which education and knowledge were prominent and valued in the Islamic world. The tool that fits best in analysing this work is art history because since only arabic letters are used, iconological and ideological as well as semiotic