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.