'Graffiti' raises eyebrows at Kaki Bukit MRT Station
Is it a case of unsupervised graffiti or something more?
Stomper Benji came across a handwritten sign at Kaki Bukit MRT Station on the Downtown Line on Oct 24.
He expressed concern over the 'graffiti' being left unnoticed.
Although the sign appeared to be scribbled by a random person, it is actually a video installation by local designer Hans Tan.
The artwork was commissioned and installed at the Downtown Line station when it first opened in 2017 as part of the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) Art in Transit programme, which features works by local artists.
The installation includes a video displaying various versions of "Welcome to Kaki Bukit" written with a marker and then erased on a whiteboard.
On his website, Mr Tan describes the artwork as bringing together the 'split personality' of the Kaki Bukit area by "capturing the essence of the industrial and domestic landscape through a demography of hands writing a dynamic welcome sign where words are periodically over-written by workers and residents."
He shared that "Welcome" was written by members of the estate, including school children and residents, while the words "Kaki Bukit" were written by workers in the industrial estate on the opposite side.
Mr Tan himself wrote the word "to", representing the train station between the two landscapes.
