Kate Newby, A line through time, 2025 30 meters. Ceramic, local slip (Singapore construction site), glaze, minerals, concrete. Installed along the Singapore Rail Corridor.
A Line Through Time inserts over 30 metres of handmade drain tile into the ground along Singapore’s Rail Corridor. Typically used for water management, the perforated ceramic lengths were set in consultation with landscape specialists to align with the site’s natural hydrology and land use. Glazed with slip made from Singapore clay, the work ties its material directly to the ground it inhabits.
Sited along a route that was repurposed from colonial railway to an important post-independence transport line, and, later, a public green space, the work attends to how ground and infrastructure co-produce the Corridor. The tile line assimilates into this living landscape, its clay body mirroring the local soil, and its function following existing natural flows. The work exists in conversation with the weather, the soil and the passing of days—what endures is not its form but its ongoing exchange with place.