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10/07/2026

What if colour wasn’t the only thing we could grow?

Recently, I had the opportunity to experiment with biomass algae provided by Atoz Carbon Cycle. Thank you. 🙏🏽

Known for its ability to capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, this microscopic green algae(Chlorella)is widely explored for applications in food, agriculture, and environmental innovation.

It made me wonder:

What can algae offer to textiles?

Whether the colour is fugitive or lightfast, I’m less interested in treating it as a finished solution and more interested in exploring it as a material for investigation.

Could it become a pigment? A print paste? A binder?

I tested it as a paste print on cotton, and the initial results are promising. The print held well, but its lightfastness is still under observation.

Sometimes, the most interesting material is the one that’s almost invisible.

01/06/2026

Coffee grounds, onion skins, avocado scraps. Materials discarded in cafés found their way back as colour, pattern, and memory.

Every stain tells a story of consumption, transformation, and care.

Nothing wasted.
Everything carries a trace.

Go find this artwork hang somewhere in .kl ☺️

22/05/2026

GMBB hosted its first Open Studio programme, and I had the privilege of being its first resident artist.

Working with food waste is not new to me. Over the years, I have initiated research, workshops, and community projects in both Kuala Lumpur and the UK, exploring the potential of discarded materials as colour.

This time, is a different approach.

It was not only about my work. It became about the place, the people, and the unexpected opportunities that emerged through being present and open.

Over the past months, discarded onion skins, coffee grounds, surplus vegetables, and forgotten plants entered the studio and became dyes, pigments, printing pastes, and conversations. Yet the most valuable material was the exchange that happened around them.

Visitors dropped by with questions, ideas, and offers to contribute. One shared leftover char kuey teow(😅). Another introduced new perspectives on waste and circular practices from Singapore. I met willing to save avocado skins(because they have loads) and learned about untapped possibilities such as algae biomass too!

The Open Studio became a space where artists, café owners, designers, makers, and curious visitors gathered around the same table to experiment, share knowledge, and imagine new possibilities for waste materials.

An Open Studio is not only about benefiting the artist. It is about creating value through connection. Looking back, I can confidently say that taking part in this experience was worth the risk.

As my research into food waste colour continues, these new relationships and conversations have expanded my thinking and strengthened my belief that this work can grow beyond the studio into larger collaborations, industries, and communities.

Thank you .kl , fellow tenants, workshop participants, visitors, and everyone who contributed materials, stories, questions, and encouragement along the way.

Sometimes the most meaningful outcomes are the ones you never planned for.

DUNIAMOTIF × GMBB Open Studio
April - May 2026

23/04/2026

In Waste Becomes Colour workshop, we explored how food waste can become natural dye.

Now, we take it further — transforming waste into functional printing ink, from pigment development to surface application.

These workshops are a continuation of my ongoing research into food waste materials, including projects like Waste Not and Kuala Lumpur Colour District ~

It’s the same question, evolving:
What else can waste become?

Let's explore it together.
Very limited slots-link in bio.

19/04/2026

From waste to colour workshop.

In collaboration with .kl vendors, food waste materials such as onion skins, coffee grounds, and tea are collected and transformed into natural dye.

This workshop explores how colour can be extracted from what is usually discarded — shifting how we see waste and material value.

Beginner-friendly.
Limited slots available.

Register via link in bio.

15/04/2026

Open Studio + Colour, Print & Waste Conversations

I’ll be opening my studio for a short time at GMBB Creative Mall — a space to gather, observe, and exchange 🌿

Alongside this, I’ll be hosting a hands-on workshop on colour-making, printing, and my current exploration of Malay motifs, grounded in conversations around waste — what we discard, what we keep, and what we can transform.

Working with natural and food waste dyes, we’ll explore materials, process, and meaning together.

Let’s build something thoughtful.
Come by, spend some time, and be part of the discussion 💛

Limited spots available.

07/01/2026

Playing with colour, overlap, and material has been an interesting way to think through composition and moments of juxtaposition. This series maps crossings and meetings through shape, colour, and memory—using natural material as a medium where heritage, identity, and place come together.

Sorry I’ve been a little quiet here—I’ve tried my best to share updates, but things have been moving quickly. Grateful to share that a few pieces have found new homes along the way.

I’ll be sharing more soon. I’m heading back to Malaysia for a few collaborations and projects. Say hi if you’re around, and let’s catch up 🌿

side note: Images of natural dye inks printed on cotton canvas. Gallery images courtesy from Nia-Cult Gallery

23/08/2025

It began with a simple question: could waste, our everyday scraps, become part of batik’s story?
Tea bags, onion skins, mangosteen rinds, ketapang leaves. Things we throw away without thought, yet full of hidden colour.

Swipe through to see my journey of bringing kitchen waste into batik, the communities I've collaborated and learned from and why I believe these materials have a place in the future of the craft.

I’d love to hear your thoughts: what do you think about incorporating ‘waste’ into traditional techniques? Would you wear or use a biowaste-dyed batik?

28/07/2025

🌿 Moss Printing & Living Textiles
I recently joined a moss printing workshop by —an eye-opening experience that blurred the line between material and life. Moss, as a living medium, offered a gentle, evolving way to print—requiring patience, care, and time.

As a natural dye and batik practitioner, this sparked a question:
What if our textiles could live, grow, and evolve with us?

In biodesign, we move from extraction to collaboration. Imagine batik not as a static imprint, but as a living surface—changing with humidity, time, and care. Could moss one day become part of our resist process? Could living prints become part of our future textiles?

🌱 Where do you see this going?
What could a future of living, breathing fabric look like?

24/07/2025

A quiet exploration of colour and form, this piece is dyed with nettles foraged locally and coreopsis grown from seed since early spring. The golden hues and earthy greens came together slowly, over time—like the plants themselves.

Each stitch is part of a conversation with the fabric. I wasn’t aiming for an outcome, just observing how colour settles, how threads can trace a memory, a shape, or a rhythm. It’s part of an ongoing study—letting the material guide the way.

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