This two-channel video features footage collected over a long period, including moments captured during the artist's forest visits, from his apartment on the 26th floor via a zoom lens, and from motion-capturing and body temperature cameras that he installed in the forest.

This secondary forest is a place where natural and man-made elements interact, introduced and native species coexist, and past and present intertwine.

Abandoned tents languish under the trees. Animals and migratory birds rest on a trash bin and a broken concrete drain. Remnants of military facilities from the British colonial era and the Japanese occupation, as well as items left behind by migrant workers are scattered and buried in the forest. Layered onto this landscape is the unfathomable narrative of two travellers passing through the forest, who speak of things seen in the forest and things the forest sees.

The juxtaposition of the two screens showcases the contrast and interaction between the natural world and the events caused by human interventions. Through this, the artist prompts us to reimagine these forests, which are continually shaped and erased by urban expansion, as a mutable space of possibility where the boundaries between human and non-human, and native and foreign are dismantled.

An introduction to a secondary forest in Singapore in ten scenes:

1. From the window of my flat, I can see the edge of the forest
In Singapore, urban and natural spaces are often in close proximity, with development constantly shifting the boundaries between such spaces.

2. Travellers
Two travellers make their way through the forest and talk about spirits. Overhead, parrots fly about.

3. The symbols of the divine appear in the Trash Stratum
The camp of an illegal immigrant who once lived in the forest becomes a congregation point for animals. Objects in the camp, including buckets, bottles and a black trash bin become crucial to their survival.

4. The Cement Drain
A natural stream bed re-emerges as the concrete drain that was built over it in 1935 disintegrates.

5. There is another world and it is in this one
Wild boars and humans cross paths at the edge of the forest. Two travellers discover an old stone slab from a former British military camp. Sambar deer observe from nearby. A selection of historical images of the secondary forest from the 1900s to 1940s are shown. A monitor lizard travels through the forest.

6. New worlds
The travellers observe happenings in the forest. Animals explore objects left behind by humans.

7. Coming back as a boar
I observe a wild boar giving birth from my window. Nearby, a forest is being cleared.

8. A deer walks to the end of the world
Sambar deer appear in the forest. Until recently, they were thought to be extinct in Singapore. It is not known where the current population comes from.

9/ Who knows what the parrot knows?
At 7pm every day, parrots flock to this tree to roost. The travellers come to the end of their walk in the forest, and one of them decides to relieve himself.

10. View from my window, 2014 and 2024.