Commissioned by Farm to design for Singapore Art Museum a reinterpretation of a piggy bank. Piggy banks have always been a virtuous gift to encourage saving. Saving is a virtue, but to what do we accumulate wealth for? And for how much will we destroy for? Very often we only remember to educate the virtue of saving yet forgetting to talk about the ills of greed.
The piggy bank takes the form of an iconic money bag, filled with coins, of which we would have traded at some point of our lives something important for. Made deliberately without a release plug and with the words "If I sold my soul for a bag of gold" written below, this object questions how much one would trade accumulated coins (and memory) in exchange for something.
The original mould was made by coins I had collected myself. For what I was saving for I had forgotten, but I had grown to love those coins.
year: 2010
project: Made for SAM (commission)
status: produced