Let's Talk

Credit Line: Gift of The Order of Friars Minor 2022, Collection of SMU

Let's Talk is the winning design of the 2021 DialogueSpaceSG Sculpture Design Competition, which was organised in conjunction with the Bicentenary of the Catholic Church in Singapore.

It expresses that while we are a culturally diverse society, we strive to live as one fraternity in shared common spaces. We have to engage in ongoing interfaith dialogue with trust, patience, respect and an open heart.

This sculpture is donated by The Order of Friars Minor.

Inscription:
"Life, for all its confrontations, is the art of encounter".

I have frequently called for the growth of a culture of encounter capable of transcending our differences and divisions. This means working to create a many-faceted polyhedron whose different sides form a variegated unity, in which "the whole is greater than the part".

The image of a polyhedron can represent a society where differences coexist, complementing, enriching and reciprocally illuminating one another, even amid disagreements and reservations. Each of us can learn something from others.

No one is useless and no one is expendable. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries of life. For they have another way of looking at things; they see aspects of reality that are invisible to the centres of power where weighty decisions are made.

Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti #215