Fleeting moments frozen in time
After a Vesak Day visit to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, I was waiting in line for lunch when I noticed this young girl quietly absorbed in a freshly opened coconut while her father queued for food nearby. Taken candidly and unnoticed amid the lunchtime crowd, it was one of those fleeting moments that might easily have passed by unnoticed, but her complete concentration on the coconut, seemingly oblivious to everything around her, caught my eye.
Taken at the OCT Loft Creative Culture Park in Shenzhen on a holiday visit last November… A passer-by moves across a mural depicting bodies in motion. For a fleeting moment, the living figure seems to continue the painted sequence. The photograph explores the relationship between art and life, stillness and movement, and how we quietly pass through spaces layered with stories before us.
Lower Seletar Reservoir was one of my father’s daily playgrounds with a camera during the years when he was battling cancer. Many mornings began here for him, walking along the reservoir’s edge and watching the changing light over the still water. I joined him on a few of those walks before, but it has been a while since I returned at sunrise. This morning felt like briefly stepping back into the quiet rhythm he once enjoyed.