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.”

CRUSHED BY THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY are two works where the wheels have been deconstructed and their 16 spokes reset until they resemble futile cogs in a machine. The spider-like sculptures are obsolete beings in face of modernisation.