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“Connecting the Dots” is a visual art portraying plastic waste found on beaches along Kuala Langat Coastline. This artwork aims to bring awareness to the public about the severity of plastic pollution in Malaysia and around the globe. Plastic pollution is a threat to planetary health, and it affects human health, biodiversity and ecosystems.

“Rags & Ragas” is a collection of environmental poems that discuss the themes on the degradation of our planet through deforestation, carbon emissions, pollution of air & water, lop-sided development, and political mismanagement. The poems are printed on reconstituted, as distinct from recycled paper. Free from bleach or dye, this unique material has been reconstituted from gunny sacks, rope, paddy husk, cigarette packs, discarded cardboard boxes & brown paper bags. It was initially used for city council bus tickets in the 50s.

“I Belong to the Forest” is a picture book that tells a story about a sun bear’s cub who was taken from its mother and sold as a pet at the illegal market. The cub, later, underwent rehabilitation and returned to the wild.

“A Fragile Thing Called Man” is an abstract concept of life and death through the banal details, silent landscapes, and curious obsessions observed daily. This artwork uses a unique camera technique to create the toy-like miniaturisation of the city, making the infrastructure appear incredibly fragile.

“Momentum Cinta” is a physics-inspired song that demonstrates physics formulas commonly taught at high school. In the animation, the plot revolves around a man running to do a critical task symbolising how a small act can significantly impact preserving the planet’s health. The animation was created using Blender.

Healing Extensions for Planetary Health - ‘Inner Healing of the People helps in the External Healing of the World.’ This art project is about constructing a creative support system for wheelchair bound people with the help of visuals and sounds. This is an interactive moving art project focusing on mental well-being that involves healing with the help of the user’s imagination. This inclusive artwork also reaches out to non-wheelchair users, with it being a tangible work, it even interacts with the visually impaired. Thus, it connects people from different walks of life and makes them more sensitive, responsive, and kind to the earth.

“The Diary of a Mountain Tree” is an animation inspired by illegal logging driven by the weak law enforcement and a lack of awareness and empathy. This animation aimed to raise awareness in society about the importance of forest conservation and hopes to inspire a sense of love for our forest and to do our best to protect it from any threat.

This art project has been created by taking autocorrelation functions of the ThueMorse sequence and putting its values in a table, assigning colours to each value on the table, and generating images demonstrating how mathematics can reveal the hidden beauty of nature.