[Perspectives] Embracing the imperfect: new beginnings after cancer

If you had visited the Visual Arts Centre in Singapore in late May this year, you would have found yourself surrounded by a profusion of strange and beautiful spheroid objects, ranging in size from a grapefruit to a large pumpkin, but looking more like colossal pebbles washed up on a giant's cove. Made up of 174 unique sculptures, Beginnings represents the 174 lymph nodes removed from ceramicist Suan Ong's neck and chest after she was diagnosed with stage IV thyroid cancer. Using the bean-shaped lymph node as her inspiration, she spent 3 years creating the works, and through the process learned a lesson in accepting fallibility in her art that would allow her to accept it in herself.

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