A Singaporean living in Australia explores its complex indigenous history on a trip to Tasmania, and discovers the power of truth-telling. The journey helps her reflect on Singapore’s relationship with its own “first peoples”.

A Singaporean living in Australia explores its complex indigenous history on a trip to Tasmania, and discovers the power of truth-telling. The journey helps her reflect on Singapore’s relationship with its own “first peoples”.

Iceland and Singapore, two nations separated by climate, geography, history. Photographs help bring back memories across these oceans, to bridge that divide—a diminishing iceberg, a towering mountain, the babbling of a brook. But photos don't only look backwards. They look forward, too.

Iceland and Singapore, two nations separated by climate, geography, history. Photographs help bring back memories across these oceans, to bridge that divide—a diminishing iceberg, a towering mountain, the babbling of a brook. But photos don't only look backwards. They look forward, too.

Having visited a museum exhibition in Boston that focuses on 19th-century pottery made by enslaved people, the writer ruminates on the power of imagination, voice and gesture.

Having visited a museum exhibition in Boston that focuses on 19th-century pottery made by enslaved people, the writer ruminates on the power of imagination, voice and gesture.