A handwritten copy of Singapore’s National Pledge rests in a glass vitrine beneath a blue sailcloth awning — a remnant from Tan’s self-built kolek in Many Waters to Cross (2019). Written with two pens held together, the text appears doubled, slightly out of focus, as if its meaning were shifting or recalling itself. The work brings together maritime memory, nationhood, and the quiet tension between aspiration and reality. Commissioned for For the House; Against the House, Singapore Art Week 2022, curated by John Tung.