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The art of walking: Artist Melissa Tan maps neighbourhoods using found objects
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Artist Melissa Tan's The Dream from the Other Side (2020).
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM
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SINGAPORE - Artist Melissa Tan, 31, was outside the Beauty World MRT station a few months ago when she saw a tile sticking out from an eroded pathway.
Intrigued, she pocketed it, and just in time, because a week later, the "desire path" where she was walking - an informal path cut across the grass by the feet of pedestrians - was paved over with concrete.
