Of course, given the delays for the Circle line alone (supposedly due 2010, but now hit by sand shortages), we might not live to see the grand filigree come into fruition.We might want to consider building a dam system to guard against the upcoming global warming trend first. Otherwise, we're Atlantis.
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Imagine all the new nasty art works that will come with each of the stations! Hahaha. Frosty chills to your heart! More childish handprints and quasi-poetic imagery about our nation!
I quite liked the handprints, actually. It's only pretentious if you try and defend it with a theory. I also think Tan Swie Hian did a decent job - Chinatown is all kitsch anyway, so his style of art fit right in.
Otherwise, I vomit at Teo Eng Seng's work in Outram Park, as well as the ugly sketches in the Little India station.
I think funding for public artworks is generally a good idea. Even if it's bad art, it gets people talking about aesthetics.
You know seeing that new speculative map really impresses on me the fact that we're going to be increasingly packed together as time goes by and pretty quickly at that too.
I find it potentially quite exciting to hope that that urban density might bring with it more diversity of culture. I love how parts of London and New York were so crazily different from each other in so many different ways - you could take a train from one station and pop up in a random location and feel like you were in a completely different sub-culture and economic timezone sometimes.
The alternative is obviously a lot darker and tends towards a tightening of the 1984-ish type scenario of Singapore Inc.
Whatever the case such developments will make it even more important for us to keep close emotional ties with neighbouring countries - like London or New York there will be times when all I will want to do is get away from Singapore for the weekend and go to the mountains or beaches - just to breathe for awhile. Sentosa doesn't quite cut it :)
I know I'm glossing over a lot of problematic issues here, especially the bits about population desnity vs. cultural diversity in Singapore but I thought I'd just throw that into the pot and see if anything rises to the surface.
Geoffrey! Are you studying photography in London now?
Nope, still in Singapore. Biding my time until April when the job hunt begins...
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