In Loving Memory / Cheryl Yip

176mm x 250mm

256 printed pages

First Edition

In Loving Memory adopts a location-led investigation to survey grief on a national level and examine how social bonds with the dead are undergoing significant change. The project follows a research framework of geographical urbanonyms, surveying locations in Singapore which names are associated with burial grounds to unveil lost narratives and utilitarian practices of handling the dead in a land-scarce country. Contemplating the losses in religious and cultural practices as a compromise, these abstractions are manifested with the employment of alternative photographic processes; the adapted techniques seek to demonstrate the various interruption of burial sites through the photographic medium to reveal the disfigured landmarks.