Reflect on the idea of memory, care, and growth through the transformation of everyday objects

Duration
1.5h over 1 session

Dates & Time
Sat 15 Nov 2025, 1.30pm – 3pm

Venue
Objectifs Junior Lab

Workshop fee
$25

Course Description

How to Grow Things is a workshop for those who struggle to keep plants alive (although those with green thumbs are welcome too!). Drawing from two ongoing projects in Cynthia Delaney Suwito’s practice: Things/Stuff/Objects and Potted Pots, participants are invited not only to make, but also reflect — on why we keep the things we keep, how they live with us, and how they might continue to grow in other forms.

During the session, participants will create a paper plant from a photograph of an object that they hold close — either in the literal or metaphorical sense of the word. This could be something they always carry in a bag or pocket, or a meaningful item brought from home. Participants will also get to experiment with ways of folding, shaping, and cutting to turn flat images into three-dimensional leaves and stems. This process shifts the perspective of the printed photograph from a two-dimensional record into a sculptural medium.

Come join us in learning a paper crafting skill as well as reflect on the idea of memory, care, and growth through the transformation of everyday objects!

Requirements
Participants are to bring an object which they would like to photograph. All other materials will be provided for this workshop.

Each participant gets to bring home their plant in a terracotta pot.

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Instructor


Cynthia Delaney Suwito (b. 1993, Jakarta, Indonesia; lives and works in Singapore and Jakarta) is an artist who bends everyday norms to understand and relook at our surroundings. Taking many forms, including sculpture, installation, and digital media, her work is noted for its quiet humour and laborious impracticality. Knitting Noodle (2016), a video showing the artist knitting instant noodles, was featured on BBC Asia in 2017. Other subjects explored include the misfortunes of plastic bags, the misuse of clothes pegs, and the perpetual turning of toilet paper rolls.

She staged her solo exhibition, while we wait, at The Substation (Singapore, 2020). Notable group exhibitions her works have been featured in include Sama Sama (Whitestone Gallery, Singapore, 2025), Singapore International Photography Festival (Peace Centre, Singapore, 2022), Superfluidity: The Parallel Universes Daily Mimicry (FreeS Art Space, Taipei, 2022), Suksesi (ISA Art and Design, Jakarta, 2021) and Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage (Lawangwangi, Bandung, 2019). Cynthia was amongst the 2017 FORBES 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts. She has a BA Fine Arts (with First Class Honours) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

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