An excursion into nostalgia through personal memorabilia

FOR about six months, artist Dawn Ng scoured vintage shops and the homes of friends and strangers all over Singapore, in her search for collectibles - and gained an appreciation of people who collect and hoard.

"The more I worked on this project, the more interested I was in the idea that we're all collectors," she shares.

She noted how the average Singaporean collected things which weren't necessarily high in value, but very ordinary everyday objects - which had meaning, memories and stories attached to them.

"It wasn't the monetary value attached to these objects, but they had memories embedded in them. This challenges the notion of what's precious," she adds.

She also discovered a whole lot of Singaporeans who turned their HDB apartments into vintage stores - not so much antiques, as these were …