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Wardah

Freedom to forage

Senior-on-the-go, Wardah just started the community garden outside PAC. She also tends to the urban garden outside her daughter's flat. The size of the lemons and cucumbers! She also forages in the wild - rambutans - that the crows have caused to fall to the ground. She is an adventurer on her trusty bicycle and shares with us her digital life. Part of a sizeable group of long time friends, she is the one nifty with the Picsart app that turns her many photos of nature and garden crops into Good Mornings and other encouraging memes in WhatsApp chats for her friends. In her photos, she lives large, commandeering and filling up the scenery with vivacity and zeal. "My life is so good."

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Bicycles and tractors 

Sharing her deep immersion in a nature loving culture of nurturing and sharing. She is joined by Rabiah. This is the first time they have met. Wardah shows us a brief glimpse of her past life in an antiques shop. She learnt cycling only when she was 60 years old. She didn't dare before that. When she was young, her mother said that girls could not ride. In this life of freedom, she not only rides a bike, she dreams of driving tractors, excavators and grass cutters. 

Where do I begin?

Filling the heart with very special things
Filling the soul with so much love

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Produced by Veronyka Lau in collaboration with JunYears and Angeline Tomara on photography and animation as part of the 2021 Silver Arts Community Arts Residency. 

The Silver Arts Community Arts Residency at Pacific Activity Centre @ Yishun Greenwalk is an initiative by the National Arts Council in collaboration with Pacific Activity Centre. It aims to provide artists with opportunities to engage and co-create with communities, to shape communal spaces, reflect collective stories and complement conversations surrounding Arts & Ageing.

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