How Loneliness Goes is about those of us who abide in the city. The photographs in the series employ Singapore’s distinct vernacular architecture as both scenery and supporting cast for an ambivalent portrayal of urban isolation. Whether they are depicted as being on their own or in the middle of a teeming crowd, the protagonists in the images appear detached and bereft - a part of the living, yet apart from it. The work functions as an allegory for the impossibility of connection in modern life. The pictures also affirm the tenuous margins that divide maturity or worldliness from a sort of brokenness, and melancholy from a kind of peace.

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