neophytes in necropolis

Something about an abandoned hospital inconveniently located at a secluded spot that stops you in your rat race tracks and forces you to ponder about mortality.

Welcome to Necropolis (formerly known as Changi Hospital (CH)) …

… so a budding Yoshitomo Nara of a neophyte, with an explorer’s thirst for charting unknown and forbidden territories humorously declared:

Nevermind how I landed myself in this spooky spot, but no, I wasn’t looking for that sort of kicks. Let’s just say steel-thirsty commercial vultures did their work salvaging every scrap of raw material they could find,  exposing a large enough ditch that would trap ALL unsuspecting non-4×4 exploratory wheelers. I kid you not, but yes… you may start laughing now.

CH is apparently situated on state owned property, but sans security guard, full accessibility is granted to the premise. And in an otherwise stifling civil structure back in the real world, that creates endless opportunities for unleashing the creative basal instinct in us all. The evidence was all around.

The graffiti beckoning but not having even a pen in sight, let alone spray paint, to write the obligatory I was Here, I felt entrenched in creative purgatory.

Next best thing to kill time with, and calm nerves down, was to snap a few low quality pictures with a 2nd Gen camera phone (this happened a while ago), while waiting for the tow truck to come.

Shutterbugs and Bansky disciples, go forth and make your mark… before this creative playground morphs into yet another resto-resort for more holidaymakers.

 thangdynasty is a work-in-progress maintained by an accidental equity trader whose brief foray into the world of investments turned out… not so brief. Although unmotivated by the senseless pursuit of money in and for itself, she remains sadistically intrigued by the complex anatomy stealthily at work behind the whole spectrum of Markets – Fine Art, Financial, Fish and Fools. A budding art collector and supporter of emerging artists, she slogs to prevent collateral damage to her bank account resulting from occasional manic art buying sprees.