Over the course of a week, I spent afternoons exploring the open ground of DECK Photography Art Centre—currently a vacant lot nestled in the heart of Singapore's cultural district. Gradually, patterns and connections surfaced within the mass of wild vegetation: ornamental indoor plants, landscaping shrubs, culinary herbs, native and foreign weeds, even young fruit trees—all enduring cycles of aggressive pruning and removal by the authorities.

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Before DECK’s takeover, this land lay vacant for three decades. Previously, it was a squatter district, later cleared by the government for urban redevelopment. Like the community that once thrived here, these plants flourished in untamed resilience—and like that lost settlement, they too will soon be erased.