The Days back then

Artist: Me
Title: The Days back then
Type: Photography
Dimensions: Unknown

This photo that I took has a balanced composition— the boys in the forground and the water in the background. The material used to make the sculptures, bronze, further balances the composition as bronze has a greater density than water, so it ‘sinks’ in water.

I took a photo of the sculpture, The First Generation, at this angle because I want viewers to feel what it is like to be among the company of boys who are about to leap into the Singapore river. We can no longer do this now since it is illegal. I suppose swimming and playing in the Singapore River must be a favourite past time of the children of the First Genenration. But I can never experience it and the people who have done it can only relish the experience. This photo serves to remind the younger generation as well as trigger memories of the older generation.