Personal Reflections

(What You’ll Find) On the Way to Becoming is not a play that explains itself. It creates a shared space and observes what happens when people are trusted to arrive on their own terms. Participation is invited, never required. Stillness is as valid as movement. What unfolds is not spectacle, but attention — collective, unranked, and quietly transformative.

Michael had read Sticker Diplomacy — the piece I wrote after first stumbling into Lim’s gallery — and reached out. We’d been in touch that week. And now, he simply showed up. No fanfare. No expectations. Just presence. His work hung behind us. Funnily enough — so did his testicles.

Singapore sells the future, but Mr. Lim archives the resistance. In a second-floor room above a nondescript street, I met a man who has spent years collecting the kinds of stories most cities erase. Cancer survivor. Ad executive turned archivist. Now clinically blind, Mr. Lim doesn’t just show you his art—he narrates it, piece by piece, like sacred memory... Two Humans from two Different Cities.

I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve, yet for some, this openness is labeled "cringe." It’s funny, isn’t it? The way vulnerability,...