What makes each piece one-of-a-kind
Aug 19, 2026
There are 67 works in the catalogue Tangled Monk Pte. Ltd. has built at its Joo Chiat studio since 2025, and no two wall pieces are the same drawing. That is worth taking apart, because "one-of-a-kind" is a phrase every studio uses and it does not always mean much.
What it means here
Nothing is traced, and nothing is reproduced. Each of the 48 wall pieces — 18 on ceramic, 25 on paper, 4 on canvas, and one whose product page does not name a surface — was drawn once, over a background that was itself made without a plan. Even within a series, where the format and the price are fixed, the drawing is different every time — the seven Rhythm in Six pieces are all S$1,065 and all different; the three Tangled Tranquility works are all S$1,320 and all different. Uniform price, individual drawing.
Why no two match
The ground is made before anyone decides what will go on it — built up with inks, gouache, sprays, stains or watercolours, with no sketch underneath. By the time the line goes on, the surface it is responding to is already unrepeatable. That is the mechanism, and it is why the studio can promise this rather than just claim it.
The deliberate exception
The coasters, bags and totes are the opposite, on purpose. A finished drawing is printed onto them — ceramic over a cork base, washed denim, or 12 oz natural canvas — which is what lets a coaster set be a set at all. They come in sets of two, four or six, at S$25, and the bags and totes run S$20 to S$75. Those are meant to be used and replaced; the wall pieces are not.
So the honest version is: 48 originals and 19 objects carrying original drawings — 10 coaster sets, 6 bags and totes, and 3 alphabet tiles — and the studio is clear about which is which.
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