Freda Tan

Votive

𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 considers the metal element as both force and offering — order and chaos held in a single falling gesture. Coins descend through water, caught in the directionality of gravity yet suspended in paint, neither arrived nor lost. Across cultures and centuries, the act of casting coins into water has served as a threshold ritual: a way of speaking to what cannot be spoken to directly. Here, that collective faith becomes the subject. Between release and landing, the transformation lives.