Brandon Tay: Sangkalan

On Sangkalan, nobody writes anything down. The colourful textiles you'll see are the island's records, logging changes in its environment through colour, geometry and repeating patterns instead of words. Brandon Tay invented the island, its lost culture and the three creatures it reads the world through.

At the centre is the Ta'Lur fruit, which gives everyone who eats it the same hallucination. The visions mirror the Selantri insect's breeding cycles and the Zaraun bird's songs and flight paths. Each creature is a sculpture of 3D-printed metal and resin, laser-cut steel and wood, with a media player built in. Tay's model is blockchain: the island's knowledge is spread across all three instead of kept in one place. It's the only distributed ledger in Singapore that can be pollinated.

The show is not at SAM's Tanjong Pagar building. It has toured four regional libraries since April, the archive growing at each stop, and ends at Punggol Regional Library on 25 October. Entry is free during library hours.