"Magang?"

We had fun 2 weeks volunteering for :phunk Studio & Keiichi Tanaami's Eccentric City : Rise and Fall.

Tiring (and a bit overwhelming after homeworks started piling up),

but it was mostly really soberly fun, I'm gonna miss the mess.

Oh and this job is not for old ladies :P

Even after only 30 minutes of cutting,

the other grandma and I would start screaming silently,

"MY BACKK....!"

There were about 300 of them.

The sides with all the colours are Tanaami's,

the B&W ones are :phunk's

The mess indicates progress.

And the exhibition's finally opened yesterday, August 18th 2010.

Black and white angle

50 : 50

The colourful angle

with my fellow grandma & intern

The artist explained why did he choose to build a city from paper instead of concrete materials in their talk today, to show how fragile a city actually is - a city can easily be destroyed by war or disaster. And :phunk associated the artwork with Singapore, which always tries to create new memories and to erase the old ones (related strongly to how Singapore always replaces/renovates old buildings).

Well, to be honest Tanaami's style is not my cup of tea, but he mentioned that he grew up just behind Tokyo's Takashimaya and the department store was his playground, he remembered playing in the elevators and got surrounded by the colours of the stores and the goods.

So we do have something in common :D