Htein Lin's sculptural installation made from obsolete Burmese wagon wheels depicts ideas about the cycle of Samsara.  While returning to his home village in Ingapu, Ayeyarwady Division of Myanmar, Htein Lin noticed the accumulation of wagon wheels, formerly used for ox-cart farming or transport, now left abandoned as motorized machinery and vehicles have taken over. Contemplating on the wheel Htein Lin created Bespoke. Htein Lin explains, “The image of the wheel is important to many cultures. It is often a metaphor for a cycle or repetition. In Ancient Egypt, it was a solar symbol. In Indian religions, including Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, it is linked to Saṃsāra the cycle of rebirth.”

WHEEL RIGHT symbolizes the melting clocks in Dali’s ‘Persistence of Memory’ which inspired Htein Lin to break a wheel, fold it at a right angle, so that it is permanently braked and broken. This was a hard transformation to achieve and many cuts were wrong and spokes were wasted.