The “Overprint Land Project” revisits the changing of sovereignty during the Japanese occupation and the post WWII British Military Administration (BMA Malaya) through the administrative overprint gesture on a “1.3in by 1.8in printed chalk paper”.
The advent of digital technology has both threatened the 180 years old philately’s existence and sparked its new imagination towards the digital age.
A series of 3D printed low relief “Overprint Land” is produced based on a selected historical stamp design during the British Settlement Era, together with the overprint marks of the Japanese Occupation Period.
I explore the come and go situation within the multiple ethnic groups that occupied the land temporarily, and how they reshape the ground zero of our civilisation horizon consistently.
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