Redundancy

Redundancy is being in the state of ‘not needed or useful.’ My painting depicts this state so many bum boats were in. They were unmanned and unloaded.

History was that these boats were no longer needed and were waiting to be moved to Pasir Panjang in an interim harbour before they were sold.

This was part of the process of bidding goodbye to Singapore River. It was the government’s plan to clean up the river and move go-downs to container wharves in the West Seafront of Singapore.