Park Royal, Our Heartlands by Plural Art Mag
Park Royal was realised with the support of Plural Art Mag and the National Arts Council Singapore. They commissioned 100 artists to reflect on a period of nationwide ‘lockdown’.
It is my tribute to Sunplaza Park in Tampines - a place where nature intersects the man-made.
To ‘dream’ of nature, I made a 3-dimensional ‘painting-cum-sculpture’ in the shape of a pillow and inserted royal palm leaves - all spray painted in bright neon colours. This reflected the whimsical colours found in the park such as the cobalt blue giant talking tubes and orange ladder sculpture.
Park Royal is the artist’s tribute to the colourfully eccentric fixtures in Sun Plaza Park – its cobalt blue giant talking tubes, orange ladder-sculpture amalgam, and the Sun Plaza Park signage “with its garish colours reminiscent of a postmodern faux-pas”. The work comprises a cotton canvas bag painted boldly with scenes of nature and holding leaf sheaths of royal palm salvaged from her neighbourhood. It is an evocation of the warm comfort of ‘human-meets-nature’ that the park has come to symbolise to its visitors
~ Plural Art Mag
