{"product_id":"katong-rojak-makan-makan","title":"Katong Rojak (Makan series)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"419\"\u003eThis work is a print of an original hand-built collage, composed from Ketna’s own photographs taken across the street food cultures of Asia. It forms part of her \u003cem data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"226\"\u003eMakan\u003c\/em\u003e series — “makan” meaning food in Bahasa, the language widely spoken across Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia — a word that carries with it not just eating, but gathering, sharing, and living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"842\"\u003eSpanning over two decades of living in Southeast Asia, the imagery travels from ceremonial fruit offerings in Bali to Bhel-Puri carts in India, from the floating markets of Bangkok to satay served on banana leaves in Malaysia, weaving through Indonesia and Singapore. Katong — a neighbourhood in Singapore famed for its Rojak (mixed salad) — anchors part of this visual journey, grounding the work in lived, local memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1093\"\u003eAt its core, this piece is an archive of the street as a living museum. Not the sanitised version found in guidebooks, but the raw, sensory theatre of everyday life — where food is not just sustenance, but spectacle, ritual, commerce, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1436\"\u003eIn the background, fragments of floor tiles, food carts, traditional copper water heaters, and Indian tiffins quietly hold space — objects that carry their own histories. Each image becomes a gateway to memory and tradition, layered with food signage, newspaper cuttings, and wrapping paper to evoke the sheer emotional energy of the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1583\"\u003eIt captures a world that is rapidly disappearing, as air-conditioned malls and homogenised urban spaces quietly replace these vibrant ecosystems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1585\" data-end=\"1852\"\u003eKetna’s lens asks a simple but urgent question: what happens when the street — with all its sounds, colours, improvisations, and human exchanges — fades from memory? And what do we lose when food is no longer a shared, public performance, but a packaged, private act?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"2020\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThis is not just an artwork; it is part of a larger, ongoing archive — a deeply personal and culturally significant documentation of street life before it slips away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach Fine Art Print is titled, numbered and signed in Ketna’s handwriting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDepending on each composition’s ‘personality’, colour spectrum and destined geographical location, the Artwork is printed either as a C-Type print on Fuji gloss paper or as a Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper. (\u003ci\u003eFor humid countries e.g Singapore, C-type Fuji paper is advised as it is does not let moisture and mould through)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll Prints are made at the most accredited and reputable Printing studios in London, Singapore or New Delhi, using the best quality fine art archival paper available.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe studio meticulously keeps account of each numbered print, including when and who it was sold to, so there is no chance of duplication. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eEach Fine Art Paper Print comes in an edition of 50, so for the three sizes, the total prints ever made will be 150. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEach Metal Print comes in an edition of 25, so for the three sizes, the total prints ever made will be 75.  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEach Acrylic Print comes in an edition of 10, so for the three sizes, the total prints ever made will be 30. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor each composition, there are up to 5 Artists Proofs for colour and production quality checks. The total edition for each artwork is therefore 260.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach Print is made to order. 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