When The Stars Are Not Aligned, We Realign, 2018

Sunflower petals, pasteurised milk, porcelain teapot, vase, assorted candles, stainless steel bowl, terracotta, dirt, soil, dust, dragonfruit, wheat flour, honey, gold leaf, tanzaku paper, ballpoint pen, B5 papers on acrylic leaflet holder, incense burner plate, glass, rainwater, ashes and aluminium plate.

Video documentation of performance, displayed on cathode ray tube television, 4:3 aspect ratio, colour, silent
18:52 minutes

The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2018
What the stars are telling us
Institute Contemporary Arts Singapore
Praxis and Project Space
​15 September - 25 October

Photo: Weizhong Deng

Prepare the materials required accordingly. Please adhere to each steps carefully for its full authenticity and effectiveness of the ritual. Time for execution is essential. In numerology, 11:11 signifies intuition, insight, and enlightenment, it is believed that a clear message from the universe to become spiritually aware. The commitment to the wish is important. It is to be performed in a private and intimate space such as the bedroom.Start the ritual at 11:11pm. Sit still for full 1 mins.

Step 1: Write a wish on any piece of paper, say it out loud for one time. Burn the written wishes and put the ashes in a glass of rainwater. Mix it well and drink up. Make the star sign with your pointed finger for one time. Take a pinch of Flour mixed with gold dust and clap it in between your palms once.

Step 2: Take a flat bucket filled with milk and sunflower petals, submerged your face twice for ten seconds and at the last second, to drink a little bit of it. Let the milk drip all over your body. Make the star sign with your pointed finger twice. Take a pinch of flour mixed with gold dust and clap it in between your palms twice.

Step 3: Take three ripe dragon fruit and rip it off with your teeth and just eat the fruit three times. Make the star sign with your pointed finger thrice. Take a pinch of flour mixed with gold dust and clap it in between your palms thrice.

Step 4: Take a right amount of honey and lather it on your face 4 times. Take 4 gold leaf and take your time and cover all over your face. Make the star sign with your pointed finger four times. Take a pinch of flour mixed with gold dust and clap it in between your palms four times.

Step 5: Face a mirror that has light shine directly on it. Take five piece of paper and write the same wish all over again on each of them. Burn the all the paper and let it turn into ashes. Make the star sign with your pointed finger four times and for the fifth time hold up the candle against the mirror and make the star sign.

Step 6: Take six parts mixture of clay, mud and dirt to rub it six times all over your body conspicuously.

Step 7: Take a gold leaf and place it on each seven stipulated chakras. (Crown, third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root) Stay still for one full minute with hands away from each other facing the sky. Make the star sign with your pointed finger seven times.Take a pinch of flour and clap it in between your palms seven times. On the last clap, let your palms stay in that position for seven seconds. Raise both arms far apart above your head for another 7 seconds while simultaneously facing any light source available in the space. Then, you face forward and say your wish in your heart for seven times. The relics should be kept for the wish to last.