I arranged a trip to Art Garden at the Singapore Art Museum to expose the boys to arts. Once we got off from our car, we were greeted by beautiful solar dancing flowers by Alexandre Dang. These solar dancing flowers were on displayed last year as well. The paper flowers move in response to various light condition throughout the day.
A very kind security guard of the museum volunteered to take a family picture for us
Upon payment of admission ticket, we received an admission sticker. Admission ticket is $10 for adult and free for children 6 years and below.
Sand art in wine glasses
Echoes-Infinity The Forest - beautiful lovely arts by Shinji Ohmaki with specially selected pigmented material.
The painting on the floor was as vivid as the ones on the wall but faded over time as visitors walk over them. Visitors are required to wear clean room boots over their shoes to keep the painting from fading as much as possible
We watched a few animated short films by Singaporean students for N.E. mation! competition. The boys love the films and didn't want to leave the gallery.
Everyday wonders - clay flowers with designs/patterns made with simple household objects like keys, paper clips, clothes pegs. The art works were by special needs trainees from TOUCH community services.
Visitor can get a plain clay flower with each admission ticket. Suggestions to make prints on the clay flower.
Our clay flowers.
Stamping fun. Png Png loves this.
Sand art. This is Chen Chen's favourite. Too bad that we could not afford to wait for the sand art to dry properly before bringing them home.
Taps and basin that were no longer in operation but caught Png Png's attention
Let's dance - visitors were invited to dance in a room to Emilie Fouilloux's music selection. The movie of their dancing scene will be projected on the screen alongside the recordings of other visitors.
The art of imagination by Justin Lee - installation of recyclable cardboard boxes with local drawings and texts. There were small boxes for visitors to demonstrate their imagination in arts.
Reactive wall was a collaboration between artist Mojoko and computer programmer Shang Liang. When visitors made sound through the microphone, images of popular characters and icons will pop up on the wall.
A creative name 5QU1D by Ryf was a squid looking creatures with blinking lights. It turned colorful when visitors got closer to it.
Chen Chen learned to make origami flower from the staff on duty.
The origami flowers made by visitors were to be contributed to Grow the Garden in the Dark. The artist Tay Bee Aye made this to cultivate spirit of love for our environment by engaging visitors to grow the garden with the origamic flowers they made.
Ping pong go round by Lee Wen. The round ping pong ball table is designed for many players to play the game at the same time.
When hubby went out to check his car, ALAS! There was a summon ticket on hubby's car windscreen. He could not find a parking lot. So, he tried his luck and parked his car outside the Art Garden. His face was black as charcoal upon seeing the summon ticket. The 2 boys had wanted to stay longer to wait for the sand art to dry properly for collection. I told them better go. Kids do not respond to change in facial expressions.
