Singaporean artist Keith Lin isn’t like other artists. Instead of canvases and tubes of paint, Lin utilizes flowers and test tubes for his art — at least for his latest installation for the Singapore Garden Festival.
Lin is known around the world as a talented floral artist, winning a recent award for flower arrangements in an international competition. As such, Lin was the only Singaporean designer invited to participate in the recent festival, which brought in talents in floral art from around the globe.
For Lin’s contribution to the festival, a massive installation was designed to dazzle and delight visitors and fans of art. Lin used tens of different flowers native to Singapore and the Netherlands in his design, painstakingly breaking apart the plants and displaying them individually in hundreds of test tubes suspended from the ceiling in a spiraling design.
Understandably, the installation required many hands and many hours of manpower to complete. Each test tube was filled with tiny pebbles to successfully suspend the individual stems of the flower species upright to draw the viewer’s interest. The spiral is arranged by texture and color, drawing the eye up and around. Using different textures and colors in the flower choices showed just how much of an expert and talent Lin is with using flowers as art. From deep purples to yellows, greens, and white, every blossom was cut and selected to contribute to the installation as a whole. String was carefully cut and measured to create a cascading spiral effect of the suspended test tubes.
The overall effect of the floral installation was a marriage between industry and nature. The glass test tubes were sleek and modern, but the pebbles and flowers brought the entire installation back to its natural roots. Some viewers might even interpret the installation as a massive chandelier or ultra modern bouquet of floral love.
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To read more about the painstaking process of Keith Lin’s artwork, go to https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/floral-art-blossoms.