Universal Myths: Kingsley Ng’s After The Deluge
By Brady Ng
KINGSLEY NG, After the Deluge, 2018, site specific installation and soundwalk. Photo by Esther Chan for ArtAsiaPacific.
Some myths are universal. There are stories of a Great Flood told by cultures on every populated continent, often tying a deluge to the destruction of an existing civilization and the birth of a new one. Water (or its lack thereof) still shapes our lands now, as part of phenomena tied to climate change. Portions of nations are already submerged under rising tides, from Bangladesh in South Asia to the Pacific island states, displacing populations that have been settled near the coastlines for generations.
