Drawing from the everyday scene of houseplants laid along a HDB (Singapore’s public housing) corridor, 5 Plants foregrounds the tension between belonging and estrangement. Yom collages five houseplants he encountered around his own estate onto the same plane, laying out their silhouette against the stretch of his canvas. In doing so, he cloaks these familiar objects in a sense of anonymity and detachment, reinforcing the absurd position of these plants themselves: precious, domestic objects to their owners, yet foreign and incidental to passers-by. Set against the architecture of the HDB corridor—a space that is at once communal and private—the work teeters between intimacy and distance, echoing the same complexity of making a home for oneself.