Champion Colloquial was a guerrilla street art series that emerged from an increasing concern with the homogenisation of Singapore's physical and cultural environment. As the city continued to develop and transform, familiar surroundings were increasingly replaced by a more uniform visual language. The work began with a desire to make the city feel relatable again: to reintroduce a sense of familiarity, humour and local identity into the spaces people moved through every day.

Language became the primary tool of intervention. The series drew heavily on Singlish- not simply as a form of slang, but as one of the most honest expressions of Singapore's evolving cultural identity. Singlish exists between languages, communities and registers. It is constantly adapting, absorbing and transforming, much like the culture from which it emerged. Its use within public space became a way of asking what kinds of language, humour and identity are considered legitimate within the visual environment of the city.

By placing colloquial language into the streets through guerrilla interventions, Champion Colloquial attempted to create moments of recognition within an increasingly standardised environment. The work was not concerned with presenting Singaporean identity as something fixed or traditional, but with acknowledging the living, changing and sometimes irreverent ways in which culture is actually produced.

The series eventually led to the 'Sticker Lady Saga', where the arrest of the artist behind the works brought questions surrounding street art, public space, property and cultural expression into sharper focus. What began as an attempt to make the city feel more familiar became entangled with broader questions about who is permitted to alter the visual environment, what forms of expression are considered acceptable, and where the boundaries between cultural intervention and transgression are drawn.

In retrospect, Champion Colloquial marked an important transition within the practice: from asking what Singaporean culture is, to actively testing how it might appear, speak and exist within the city itself.