We’ve got the sun under our skin is a series of photographs and texts illustrating the incremental effects that colonial literature has on the construction of modern identity. Drawing from...
We’ve got the sun under our skin is a series of photographs and texts illustrating the incremental effects that colonial literature has on the construction of modern identity. Drawing from 20th century British travelogues and ethnographic accounts in Malaya, images are created in response to the stories. Shot entirely in Britain, the photographs function as portrayals of the explorers’ experiences in the Straits Settlements—a mimicry to subvert the orientalist gaze.
In Malay Forests, George Maxwell, 1907: "High in a tree and almost out of sight, you may see an occasional flower, and lower down perhaps your eye may light upon an inconspicuous spray of blossoms that a careful scrutiny shows to be a miniature orchid.'