Singapore Mermaids

Shucolat (Chan Shu Yin), Singapore

The Singapore Girl, a national symbol of beauty and grace. What if we juxtapose her with our native wildlife? This series is a playful take on the iconic Singapore Girl, highlighting the often overlooked aspects of nature in our island city. The series features the striated heron, dugong and smooth-coated otter.

Postcards of Shucolat’s art can be purchased on her website.

Visit the artist’s website: www.shucolat.com

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Striated Heron

The Beauty and the Bird.

How does one define beauty? Are our eyes open to the flora and fauna flourishing in the canals or would the canal debase Beauty’s exquisiteness?

Striated Heron © Shucolat (Chan Shu Yin)

Dugong

Dugongs can be found off Singapore's coast. Feeding on seagrass, they are sometimes called Sea Cows and can live up to 70 years old. The baby clings to its mother's back while she munches on seagrass. Dugongs are listed as “Critically Endangered” in the Red List of threatened animals of Singapore.

Dugong © Shucolat (Chan Shu Yin)

Smooth-coated Otter

The smooth-coated otter seems to have become the nation's favourite animal in recent years. Their increase in numbers and photogenic nature have made them a poster-child for nature living alongside humans in urban Singapore.

Smooth-coated Otter © Shucolat (Chan Shu Yin)

Currently an art therapist in training, Shucolat (Chan Shu Yin) is also a visual storyteller, giving a voice to the nameless and unfamiliar through illustration and comics. Her art traverses the realms of nature, human's relationship with it, as well as existentialism and the human condition. Shucolat graduates from LASALLE's MA Art Therapy programme in 2019 and hopes to incorporate nature into her art therapy practice as she believes that both nature and art have the power to heal. She can be found at www.shucolat.com.