Four picturesque trees show-cased in the Sunday paper. Tall, wide-armed, impressive boles. These were not kerbside plantings; neither were they ringing condo pools. One that stood bare and stark after a lightning strike features prominently on google and instagram. Famous (locally). Couples, families, keen nature-lovers regularly beat a path to these trees. A bench was provisioned adjacent one. One in the Botanical Gardens and a third at the end of the island was a favourite for wedding shoots. Given fairly remote locations, backdrops for all four stretch wide without any looming tower encroaching: ".... don't even look like it's in Singapore", one photographer enthused. Grand escapism, as if with a magic wand suddenly blotting out all the architectural prize-winning piles of concrete, steel and glass. (Self-awarded by the industry.) Almost a case of (artistic) terrorism eliminating the burden of all that con(de)struction.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Picturesque (Sing' Still)
Four picturesque trees show-cased in the Sunday paper. Tall, wide-armed, impressive boles. These were not kerbside plantings; neither were they ringing condo pools. One that stood bare and stark after a lightning strike features prominently on google and instagram. Famous (locally). Couples, families, keen nature-lovers regularly beat a path to these trees. A bench was provisioned adjacent one. One in the Botanical Gardens and a third at the end of the island was a favourite for wedding shoots. Given fairly remote locations, backdrops for all four stretch wide without any looming tower encroaching: ".... don't even look like it's in Singapore", one photographer enthused. Grand escapism, as if with a magic wand suddenly blotting out all the architectural prize-winning piles of concrete, steel and glass. (Self-awarded by the industry.) Almost a case of (artistic) terrorism eliminating the burden of all that con(de)struction.
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