Wednesday, January 2, 2008

A Day Without A Tree

How would the world be like without without trees, plants and greenery?

Yeo Chee Kiong's work - A Day Without A Tree - paints the scenario from an inside-out view of the nature in the world we live in today building on the theme of 'forest'.



Not sure if the liquid to to reflect the rising sea levels and the melting ice caps but it sure turns the National Museum Rotunda into a personified body. With global warming, the architecture (even the foundation stones of the museum are melting) melts into a white body fluid.



It's neither liquid nor solid or so I think because I didn't touch it. But the purpose is to bring surprising and subverting psychological moments.



The perceived solids are liquefied, and the liquids are solidified.



I also caught a bunch of grapes floating somewhere. Intriguing.

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