(👋🏼 Welcome! If this your first visit and you don’t know the Way, please read my sincere caveat here. Thanks for visiting!)
<aside> ✍🏼 WxW is an attempt to share Singapore’s overlooked and under appreciated wayside plants. It was prompted by the thought that sometimes, there are amazing things just before us, if we only paused to see.
When I first named the capsule, it stemmed from my fondness for alliterations and the immature notion that wayward sounded more attractive than “wayside”. How foolish. Upon deeper reflection now, it’s a conviction, not a celebration.
It’s a reminder of the Holy Spirit’s charge, through the Apostle Paul’s epistle in Romans 3:12 - that (we) all have fallen short of God’s standards. That we have all rebelled. And we need Christ.
The capsule manifests in illustrations, handcrafted hebaria and a walkshop. I share the latter below.
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I no longer conduct the WxW Walkshops. At least not for the time being. It’s great fun and restorative for me. Only that it’s a luxury in this hectic leadership season. Here, I’m just capturing some of the old promotional copy and photos from actual walkshops that I’ve conducted for fondness.
Wild x Wayward Walkshop
Laying out completed framed herbaria as samples. Photo: Sim Yi Shien
Lose yourself in a kaleidoscope of colours, forms and textures as we search for wild botanical treasures in the urbanscape of Singapore’s coffee belt at Jalan Besar. Relive the innocence and simplicity of childhood by embarking on a guided trail led by local naturalist W, who will teach you how to identify and collect common wayside plants.
In doing so, we hope to open your eyes to different sides of Singapore – a true city-in-a-garden growing and thriving amidst the cracks and gaps of a concrete labyrinth.
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Photo by Shien too
With our hand-gathered botanics, we will blend science, art and dashes of whimsy to craft a framed herbarium that will immortalise your experience, enliven your space and enchant visitors.