Ant Architecture
The little guys have been busy; this sand castle wasn’t there yesterday. In fact, it poured rain yesterday, so this structure dates from sometime last evening. Not bad!
The little guys have been busy; this sand castle wasn’t there yesterday. In fact, it poured rain yesterday, so this structure dates from sometime last evening. Not bad!
Two pictures from my morning walk. They were perched on the fence beside the man-made river that keeps this part of Singapore from reverting to a swamp. These are different from the one I photographed last time – these are white collared kingfishers, smaller, with black beaks. They seem to hang out in pairs or […]
This structure is a the apex of Fort Canning Hill. I like it, especially the big bronze knobs on the door and the arched shape. It looks like a link to Portuguese or Spanish architecture, perhaps an antique fort entrance. Turns out it’s a garage.
This sculpture is at the apex of the sculpture garden. I understand that crescents are important in Islamic imagery, and are parts of the flags of Singapore and Malaysia. But would you want this one dominating the horizon? The artist took a naturally graceful shape and turned it into something that looks like it came […]
Two views and two drastically different exposure settings: That’s the side view. Below, the full frontal: You can also see another reddish metal sculpture behind it, that looks like a play structure.
I like this one, but then I’ve got a soft spot for smooth shiny things:
The ASEAN Sculpture Garden is on the middle level of Fort Canning Hill. Walking there from the National Museum of Singapore, this is the first thing you see: East India Company ship? A ship bringing laborers from Hong Kong or India? Appropriate at any rate for a nation whose history and economy are so singularly […]
If you go to the National Museum of Singapore, a very nice building, you have the option of exiting into Fort Canning Park from the third floor. When you do that, this is what you’ll see: It was a bright day when I took this picture, so please forgive the exposure. Here’s the side view: […]
This statue is next to a set of stairs that climb Fort Canning Hill, where Sir Stamford Raffles started the first botanical garden of Singapore. Front view: Nice elegant long neck, expressive eyebrows, and an armload of what appear to be babies. Let’s see her from the side: Now that’s a set of biceps!
These people used to be located in front of SAM, the Singapore Art Museum. Unfortunately this was just in front of Bras Basah Road, and they were spewed with enough exhaust and soot to become unpleasingly filthy. Now they’ve been cleaned up and moved to the lawn adjacent to the National Museum of Singapore. Worth […]