When I was a little girl, dolls, tea party & dress up were never my interest at all despite having 2 elder sisters to play with. I loved toys that could allow me to build or to create new things such as wood blocks, train tracks & definitely not forgetting many of our childhood favorite, Logos. Unfortunately, it did not sustain an inquisitve, active little girl for a long time. Soon, the 2 year old me could be seen searching through every trashbin in the house, my favorite was the study room’s! Envelope’s transparency, scrap ribbons from presents, cute images from newpapers, boxes & so many more treasures could be found there! 

As a little girl I percieved these as toys, these “toys” I could never get bored of even after 20 years. These “toys” were limitless, it did not have a fixed way of building unlike wood blocks or Logos. Soon I found mysef addicted, it was a daily routine to search through the bins for treasures & hiding it in my secret box before my mum wakes up, clears the trash & catches me red handed. There was so much I could be creative to use it for, I would create a paper bag out of Cereal boxes, made cards from the scraps, mini drawers from plastic bottles or even creating games through what I have collected! There’s just tons of things I could do with these ordinary items around us, too much to be listed! 

Till this day, I am still creating & have not gotten bored of it because everyday is a different creation, there’s the beauty mandance, ordinary materials found in the trash bin which holds so much values in my eyes. I saw potential in these ordinary mandance items. The value it posesses that is flexible & allows me to be creative to recreate so many versions of things which through the process has allowed me to understand the character of the materials better, what tape could stick better with paper versus plastic etc. Exploring & discovering new things through the process is something that could never become standard.