By Proxy.

By Proxy combines photography and 3D virtual modeling to explore how memory can bend, blur, and recompose the past. It grew out of Lenne Chai's and my parallel histories in Singapore, our long friendship, and the shared background we have in fashion image-making.

It joined our two practices at a moment when we were moving through different tools. I was deepening my work in 3D virtual modeling and NFTs, while Lenne brought an emotionally charged photographic language. Together we built a world that feels personal, surreal, and familiar without settling into documentary certainty.

At the center of the work is a virtual teenage girl whose face merges features from both our childhood selves. She appears inside scenes that read as half observed and half reconstructed, with each frame refusing to fully reveal what came from a camera, what came from a render, and what came from memory.

That uncertainty is the point. Memories overlap, borrow from images, and sometimes become more convincing after they have been retold. By Proxy treats the remembered past as something intimate but unstable, full of substitutions, soft edges, and details that may have been invented after the fact.

The series is both a visual experiment and a study of identity, nostalgia, and technology. It asks viewers to step into a world that feels close but slightly displaced, then consider how much of their own past has been preserved, edited, or remembered into existence.

We showed By Proxy at Proof of Concept in Singapore.