Singapore is an amazing city-state, where the wide variety of architectures and styles in fashion invoke an effect that is mystifying. There is an enormous sensibility toward beauty here, where there seems to be multiple concentrated efforts to make a cityscape that is constantly pleasing to the eye. It’s evident not only in the buildings and the fashions, but is also present in the food. Whether the traveler’s taste is for Indian, Chinese , or any of the other local cuisines that are served up so elegantly here, there is a beauty in presentation that further evolves in the tasting.
It’s a lovely way to spend an evening, where one can have a fine meal, and then venture out to look at the local arts and entertainments. It’s very apparent that there is a great deal of attention put to the public art in Singapore, and like any artworks, these all have their own stories. The work of Lin Emery is a splendid example. This artist has a number of public works, and her sculptures have been shown in exhibitions all over the world. They each demonstrate a remarkable sense for combining crafted materials with an eye toward honoring principles found in nature.
Her works show a kind of elegant fluidity, and for some of the sculptures, where works of metal invoke a certain sharpness and harsh angularity, the fluidity comes through as a kind of grace note. The artist herself comes from New Orleans in the U.S., and her work translates here in Singapore because of its fine attention to capturing a subtle elegance of form that speaks of technology that is always trumped by the forces of nature. Singapore’s thriving metropolis is always also accompanied by the presence of nature, the power of the elements, transfiguring our visual field, and at times, even our consciousness.
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