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Dr. Wenny Teo writes about Quinn's large scale installation Planet on permanent display at The Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

(Still) Life in the Garden City picture

The Gardens by the Bay is a verdant spectacle of epic proportions, unfurling along a three-kilometre waterfront promenade and occupying 250 acres of prime land in the heart of a small city-state. This enchanted forest symbolises the efflorescence of Singapore's remarkable politico-economic and social evolution from an unruly trading colony to one of the worlds most prosperous nations.

Planet, 2008
Painted bronze and steel

Photography: Courtesy Garden by the Bay

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