The 3.2 Shooter
This mural seems pretty new, probably done to commemorate SG50. I’m unable to get any pings online on this mural or the artist(s) responsible for it. The mural depicts scenes of the past in Jalan Besar, which includes New World Amusement Park, heritage shophouses and transportation mode of yesteryears. The mural extends to merge with imagery associated […]
“Children on a Bicycle” is one of Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic’s iconic street art in Penang, and is really popular with tourists. There was a group of Chinese national tourists hogging the mixed media graffiti for their numerous selfies when all of a sudden an old man speeds down the road nonchalantly at top speed, […]
I can’t find the exact name of this graffiti or the artist(s) responsible for it. The style of the caricature reminds me of 1980s anime, and seems to play on surreal humor on the classic box cutting magic trick. The idea of the magician’s boxes plays off nicely on the grid surface of the shophouse […]
I was walking around Penang’s Armenian Street when I chanced upon this graffiti. The mural was created by artists Jim Oo and John Cheng, collectively known as Penang I-Wall, back in 2014. The street art extends all the way to the concrete drain covers at the bottom, which used to feature speech bubbles of common […]
It was a slow Saturday afternoon. I didn’t plan for anything much. I was walking aimlessly around the rooftop garden at Orchard Central when I chanced upon this sculpture by Victor Tan. This sculpture is part of a series of 5 figures contoured from steel wires, titled “The Stair, The Clouds and The Sky” that dot […]
George Segal’s Cinema (1963) is one of the more prominent pop art sculptures on display at Albright Knox Art Gallery. The last time I was at AK, I only had my iPhone with me and I snapped a photo of this sculpture too, alongside the other pop art paintings near it. AK has a huge […]
I’m trying out the new logo HL did for me. Exciting things are going to happen to my portfolio website… Anyway back to the photo… I was in Koreatown in Toronto with HL during Spring break. A graffiti beside the dumpster… For some reason it bears more Japanese influence than Korean. Maybe it’s the rays […]
A glazed terracotta sculpture by Andrea Della Robbia made approximately during the period of 1470-1475.
This is Vincent’s van Gogh’s Self-portrait With A Straw Hat, otherwise known as The Potato Peeler (1887). He’s done a lot of self portraits, so this is just 1 of the 27 portraits he did. I’m not a fan of pointilism and really dreaded having to attempt pointilism during art class back in secondary school. […]
Part of a mixed media artwork on display at the Botanic Garden. It’s entitled “Vertical Submarine”. I kind of social-proofed the act of photographing the sculpture up-close and personal and found a huge group of Singaporeans swarming towards the faux flowers. As a result, I got fed up and left. The crowd was just too […]
The name of this sculpture by Chong Fah Cheong is “First Generation”. My uncle told me recently that my maternal grandfather was one of those kids that used to jump into the Singapore River for plain fun. But did he do it butt naked like the kids depicted on the sculpture?
A sculpture by Liu Jilin.
A sculpture by Victor Tan Wee Tar. Tucked away in a corner of the Botanic Garden, I was refreshingly surprised when I came across it.