Who's in the Woods

Who's in the Woods was a visitor-created interactive installation commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore, designed to give families and young visitors a way to engage creatively with the gallery environment beyond the traditional exhibition format. Visitors used digital tools to design and colour their own woodland animals before releasing them into a shared, evolving day-to-night forest-scape.

The forest responded to what visitors built. Animals created by different visitors moved through the same environment, encountering each other and interacting in ways shaped by the child who made them. The result was a living, collective artwork that changed with every visit: a space where a young visitor's imagination could walk alongside someone else's.

Visitor-Designed Creatures

Each visitor used digital colour and pattern tools to design their own woodland animal before releasing it into the shared environment. No two creatures were the same, and every release added something new to the forest that subsequent visitors would encounter.

Shared Day-to-Night Forest-scape

A collective digital environment that cycled through day and night, populated by all visitor-created animals at once. The forest was never static: it reflected the cumulative creativity of everyone who had come before.

Creative Interaction Layer

Animals created by different visitors could encounter and interact with each other within the forest, giving the installation an element of discovery that extended beyond the act of creation into watching what happened when two visitors' imaginations met.