1-on-1 interviews were done with 18 people located in Singapore to understand their relationship with their indigenous cultures and how their dress object(s) reflected that.
The main objective was to understand their attitudes towards their diasporic identities. As such, an interpretivist approach is used, where based on the assumption that reality is subjective, multiple and socially constructed, we recognise can only understand someone's reality through their experience of that reality, which may be different from another person's shaped by the individuals' historical or social perspective.
A mix of portraits and photographs of the dress objects serve as an archive of how the individuals dress and express themselves. This also serves as a visual journal for future generations of these diasporic communities who may share the same attitudes and experiences. Faces of the individuals are intentionally blurred to reflect the overlapping identities and blurred boundaries of cultural exchanges and influences.
