William Sim, 25/ Sendudok 2016 watercolour and pencil on archival paper 39cm x 29cm

The eighth edition of the Happiness Private Limited show is a hybrid of William Sim’s trademark fantasia and the botanical world. The work is presented as a series of pseudo-botanical drawings on thirty six species of popular plants frequently encountered in Singapore. A playful study on symbiosis as each piece of work documents the anomalous alliance of an imagined facultative symbiont to its vascular plant host.

With strung up hammocks, aeries and shrub-houses, the partnership might seem more commensal than mutualistic at times. Only a bona fide botanist knows, for a plant to truly thrive, companionship and affection are as crucial as sunlight, water and nutrients.

Venue: Utterly Art Exhibition Space, 20B Mosque Street (Level 3), Singapore 059500

Hours: By appointment only. Tel: 94872006 or 62262605 (Keng Hock)

When: 29 Oct - 13 Nov 2016,

By: Utterly Art