Capturing Paradise. Breathing, walking, looking, observing, feeling, selecting, capturing, looking, thinking, thinking, looking, choosing, printing, framing, presenting, looking, feeling, thinking, breathing… Chye Teck is a collector. A collector of images, of memories, of spaces. A collector of what’s visible in order to evoke what’s absent. A collector of traces, stains, remnants: the discarded, unwanted, neglected, forgotten, bringing them to life again, through his eyes, through his hands, his heart.
Angeline Ng (2009)