Dana Goh’s Meanwhile Garden: Cultivation, Craft and Conditional Belonging

Dana Goh’s Meanwhile Garden explores identity, belonging and care through textile flowers, revealing how the self is cultivated by social, emotional and cultural forces. Singaporean textile and installation artist Dana Goh’s Meanwhile Garden uses faux-fur yarn flowers to present belonging as a condition shaped by care, control and repeated acts of selection. Rather than treating the garden as a place of natural harmony, the work frames identity as something cultivated under social and emotional pressure. As William Morris observed, “you […]